Unleash Your Team’s Full Potential: A Guide To Introverts In The Office
Shutterstock Open floorplans. Collaborative work streams. Large brainstorming sessions. This is the reality of our work style today. It’s an extrovert’s dream—easy moments to interact, continuous...
View ArticleWhy Soft Skills Matter And The Top 3 You Need
What’s the formula for building a company that can not only withstand the climates of change and uncertainty we’re living in, but transform and innovate? It used to be that the formula was to build a...
View ArticleIt’s Not About The Money: 3 Ways To Impact Happiness At Work
Shutterstock It’s no secret that the volatile and unstable climate we face in business today takes its toll on our employees. According to a recent study, a full 42% of employees feel disengaged at...
View Article4 Signs Your Workplace Culture Is In Crisis
Fox News is one of many companies facing an escalating crisis of workplace culture. With a new corporate catastrophe reported almost daily—from United Airlines to Fox News—we’ve got a crisis of...
View ArticleAnxiety In The Office — Three Ways To Stop It From Spreading
If you are feeling stressed and anxious, you are not alone. Here’s the proof: According to the APA’s latest survey, the number of Americans who reported feeling stressed in the past month is at 80...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg’s Guide To Grief, Growth And Getting It Right In Today’s...
Recently I connected about business and resilience with Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author with Adam Grant of “Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.” We talked...
View ArticleUse Purposeful Incentives To Keep Your Employees Engaged
Study after study shows that employees want more than money to be happy at work. With unemployment at record lows, companies are competing more than ever for top talent. When someone can work pretty...
View ArticleHow Are You Coping? Three Ways To Stay Resilient In Times Of Trauma
From Puerto Rico to Texas, Mexico, Las Vegas, not to mention Washington, we are surrounded by trauma whether we’re affected directly or indirectly. So, how are we coping; how can we cope? As an expert...
View ArticleThe Number One Key To Success In 2018
Shutterstock For those of us sending around wishes for a calmer more sane 2018, please get over it. There is not a single trend out there that points to anything but continued change and disruption....
View Article7 Secrets To Building Engagement In The Workplace
The way we work is changing so significantly that our minds can’t keep up. Constant change is widespread, and workers are tasked with high demand while having low control over their environment. What’s...
View ArticleThe Single Most Important Skill You Need To Thrive At Work
This decade marks the most radical disruption of the workplace in our lifetimes. The confluence of big data, information transparency and innovative business models compels organizations of every size...
View ArticleChange Is The New Normal. How Will You Handle It?
How has your business changed in the last year? Moving HR and IT to the cloud? Did you migrate products or essential internal systems to the cloud? Are AI and big data changing your business? Have you...
View ArticleYou Just Measured Employee Engagement. Now What?
If you are like many top HR teams today, you’ve completed an employee engagement survey, and HR teams and managers are all studying the results carefully, analyzing who is engaged by department,...
View ArticleEnough About Agile Firms — We Need Agile People
Agile organizations need agile people. Agile is the buzzword of the moment. Every day we read about the necessity of developing agile organizations—but shouldn’t we be talking about agile people? Agile...
View ArticleDo You Have The Courage To Become Agile?
Agile organizations need agile people. This post is the first in a series of six articles on organizational agility. I used to get to the office early and stay later than anyone. As a leader, I wanted...
View ArticleDo You Have The Vision To Be Agile?
It’s an organization’s North Star that enables agility in times of change and transformation. This is the second post in a series of six articles on organizational agility. We all know that in today’s...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Find The Answer, Change The Problem
Innovation requires more than imagination. The design staff of a lifestyle company where I used to work posted this sign on their door: Question: “How many design directors does it take to change a...
View ArticleThree Things You Can Learn From Government Workers And First Responders
meQuilibrium research performed with 2000 employed adults showed a consistent and statistically significant correlation between high levels of purpose and connection to work and high levels of...
View ArticleThe Biggest Risk Is Not Taking One. Here Are 3 Simple Steps To Better...
The biggest problem with risk? It’s not taking one. We all love stories in which the hero/heroine takes a big risk that pays off. In today’s business climate, however, risk is rarely a grand adventure...
View ArticleHow Agile Is Facebook?
Facebook now must change rapidly or face existential threat. Mark Zuckerberg continued Facebook’s radical about-face last week, calling for new government regulation on harmful content, election...
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