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Back to Office?
Some organizations are making September 2022 the time for employees to come back to the office, either full time or part time. If your...
Continuous Feedback in Remote/Hybrid Teams
Before COVID, many leaders and managers learned that, rather than wait for an annual or semi-annual performance review to give people...
What is Inclusion?
What is inclusion? Although we each often see it in headlines, on social media, in company mission statements, what does it actually...
Return to Office Mandates
I’m a manager, and am hearing grumbling about our hybrid mandate from some employees—particularly those who have been with us before...
Productivity and Remote Work
As organizations are debating their return-to-office policies, one of the metrics they’re examining is productivity, particularly...
Inclusion as a Career Competency: Motivating, Upskilling, and Making Inclusion a Habit
For many people, in many organizations, inclusion is more than a term spoken during diversity training. Rather, it is about a way of...
Shybrid Challenges
Yes, you read that correctly. Shybrid, not hybrid. Shybrid is a term coined by Paul McKinlay, VP of communications and remote working at...
Experimenting to Find a New Normal
We’ve all read and heard about how organizations are planning for their “new normal.” Some teams, working groups, or organizations plan...
What’s Our Plan?
One of things we’ve all learned over the last couple of years is that plans are tentative. Many organizations have planned—multiple...
It’s a New Year: Thinking about 2022
It’s a new year. An opportunity for reflection ( looking back) and for planning (looking ahead). But if we’ve learned anything from the...
Webisode: Beyond Onboarding
First The Great Resignation, then The Great Onboarding, finally it’s The Great Acculturation
From The Great Resignation to The Great Onboarding
We’ve experienced The Great Resignation. As people take positions in new companies (or return to previous companies), they will need to...
Giving Thanks
It’s been another challenging year, with a lot of uncertainty. As we head toward Thanksgiving, it’s an opportunity to pause, reflect, and...
Leading with Respect: What “Walking the Walk” Looks Like
As a leader your actions carry weight. People watch you and listen. As you behave with respect, they are more likely to model your behavior.
Leading a Respectful Work Environment
For a respectful work environment, leaders need to be able to intervene and coach. In a respectful and inclusive workplace (whether...
Looking Toward September
It’s August. The hoped-for summer with COVID on the wane was an illusion. Will employees who were told they’d be heading back to the...
What TYPE of Hybrid Workforce?
Many of us will head to an office with colleagues in the near future (if not already). We may be in office full-time or part-time. Some...
Diversity in the Talent Acquisition Process — A Chicken and Egg Problem?
Companies want to hire a diverse workforce. They’re motivated. But, they’ve said they can’t find diverse candidates. There may be some...
Incivility with a Hybrid Workforce
Before COVID, most of us worked in offices full time. We knew the contours of workplace incivility—the kinds of actions (and inactions)...
The Disadvantages of a Younger Workforce
It’s hard enough to have hard conversations at work. It’s likely to be even harder for younger, less experienced workers who are entering...
Who’s Invited to the Meeting?
With many organizations’ teams working from home, most of us are getting—or have gotten—tired of meetings via video-conference. Among the...
Is Incivility Different with Remote Work?
Back when we worked in offices, we knew the contours of workplace incivility: the kinds of actions (and inactions) that felt...
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