3-minute read or watch the video below My reflection on 2024 took me through the 15 days of staff and board offsites I was privileged to facilitate. What emerged is that empathy, patience, and clarity are three characteristics teams and boards value in their leaders. Why these three? Individually, each is essential for navigating the [...]
3-minute read or watch the video below Tuesday, November 5th, is an inflection point. It is the eye of this election season’s storm, a moment of individual action (voting or not) and relative calm amidst the swirling chaos leading up to this election and the lack of closure that will likely follow. Whatever [...]
5-minute read or 6-minute video (new!) This summer, we ate a lot of bread from Earth, Sky, Time, a local Vermont community farm. Earth, Sky, Time; three words that beautifully summarize the collaboration of three necessary elements to create the gifts of delicious bread, produce, and farm products. These words got me thinking about [...]
Having difficult conversations is part of the fabric of work. Typically, conflicts at work that require difficult conversations may be about individual performance, organizational performance, compliance issues, or employee disagreements. This year, conflicts at work and difficult conversations are estimated to be even more frequent due to, among others, the upcoming election, geopolitical unrest, and [...]
2-minute read and an exercise You made it past the title, so you must be a little bit curious. This month, we invite some historical luminaries to join the conversation about career advancement. The face of work is evolving rapidly. Among the factors shaping this evolution are later retirement dates, mid-career changers, and the rapid [...]
2-minute read Whether at the beginning of a career or as a senior executive, at some point, we all feel alone in navigating our career opportunities and obstacles. Yet, a wealth of advice and guidance is waiting outside your door, ready to be harnessed. Spoiler alert: it’s not on TikTok. Many of us have or have [...]
2-minute read Do you ever hear yourself saying, “I feel like I work all the time?” I hear and say it a lot, so I did some digging, and here’s what I found. On average, we work nearly 2,100 hours each year. For context, we sleep 2,900 hours yearly. So, if you feel you spend a lot [...]
3-minute read with templates It might be a stretch to call Bob the happiest middle manager on earth, but paying homage to Walt Disney is always fun. If you're a manager, you're probably curious about how Bob achieved his happiness. Bob and I have been working together for about six months. He came to me [...]
2-minute read with ideas On average, we work 2,000 hours each year. That’s a lot of time. It seems even longer if you’re not having at least a little fun or feeling a sense of personal well-being. Gallup's 2022 Employee Retention survey cited that 63% of employees considering whether or not to take a new [...]
2-minute read with Resources The automobile, the Internet, Uber, and Instacart. Our American superpower is inventing convenience. Information is available at lightning speed, prompts instantly become paragraphs, and questions are answered without the time-consuming work of research or reflection. Consumers are besotted with AI and its wondrous 24/7 capabilities and capacity. So are companies. Companies [...]
