LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
Efficent Communication: How Your Conflict Style Is Hurting Collaboration
Virtually every leader of any successful organization will tell you that collaboration lies at the center of what makes an organization successful. So why do so many leaders struggle to get their employees to collaborate? As a conflict mediator, I’ve worked with...
How to Wisely Wield the Power of Leadership
We influence, positively and negatively, in every action, reaction, and interaction. Getting excited about a topic, feeling frustrated about avoidable rework, or digging into a problem to root out solutions…each moment is one to be mindful of how we are perceived. Why...
What Employees are Yearning For in Remote One-on-Ones
If you really want to connect and support your team, there’s no better place to start than a great cadence of meaningful one-on-ones.And yet, even before this transition to remote work, when we would ask employees about their experience with one-on-ones, we often...
Strategically Building the New Normal For Your Organization
The pandemic has forced companies and organizations of all sizes (as well as individuals and families) to explore how they have been affected, what the unfolding shifts will mean for their futures and how they can adapt to the ongoing changes. Various terms have been...
Bad Decisions Don’t Just Happen
A few years back, my team and I prepared for the launch of our new leadership product. We were excited. We even skipped a few key steps in our rush to market. We just knew we had something special. We messaged hundreds of thousands of people about the product, and...
Feeling Safe in an Unsafe World
To talk about feeling safe in an unsafe world, I'm going to use a very reductive model of the universe. This is admittedly oversimplified, but it’s useful as a starting point: A profound psychological need that we have as human beings is a sense of safety....
Boost Your Productivity; Stop Monday-itis by Changing the Way You Work
Monday morning strikes fear (or at least a flat mood) into the minds of many. If you are suffering from a case of Monday-itis, browsing employment websites might be overtaking the time spent doing your actual job. But here’s the good news: research conducted by the...
Could Working From Home Crush Your Career? An HR Expert Warns about Pitfalls
Nita Chhinzer says people working at home need to speak up and ask for development opportunities. Working from home during the pandemic has had some great benefits (less commuting, more time with beloved pets and cost savings on items like parking and gas), but it...
Questions to Make Your Virtual Meetings More Effective
Few consider meetings the highlight of their workday – more probably consider it the bane of their work life. It is true that meetings, while important and potentially useful, aren’t always very good. Sadly, now that most meetings are being held virtually, it hasn’t...