Everyone knows that new things go better when people know what to expect and how things work. That is the idea and intent behind onboarding – providing information and insight to help people succeed and thrive faster in a new job. Onboarding has been taken more seriously and given more attention in recent years for

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Zoom. At the beginning of the year, maybe you had heard of this tool for online meetings. Now, like Band-Aid and Xerox, it is a product name that has become a verb. People are creating and sending Zoom links for everything from first grade instruction to daily meetings to conversations between grandparents and grandkids. It

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I was going to tell you about it but maybe I will wait. I don’t feel like it…right now. This will be hard. I want to get it just right. There are LOTS of reasons why we procrastinate and we all do it at one time or another (and probably even more than that!) And

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You’ve been working remotely for a while. At the start, it went pretty well – you had a common challenge with your team and you met it. But now, you are finding that remote work fatigue is real. You know that work can be stressful at times, but this remote work fatigue you are feeling

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Last week, I talked about the power that routines can have in our lives. If you missed that, you can watch it here. The thing about routines is that when they change, we are often left feeling a little lost, confused or even discombobulated. And if you’re like most of us, our routines over the

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If you are coaching others in the workplace, you probably have some sort of performance management process. While these typically culminate in the annual meeting, many suggest or require at least a midyear check-in too. Even if your process doesn’t suggest that, I believe you benefit everyone by having midyear check-ins. The question is, how

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As I talk to leaders and team members who are working remotely, I hear their challenges, struggles, and concerns. One of the biggest challenges I hear is about remote team communication. People are figuring out the technology and making that work. But Zoom, Slack, and Microsoft Teams (and all the tools like them) don’t perfect

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With everything that has happened, even the normally super productive and focused leaders among us are struggling to manage all the change and emotions. So, if you are like so many people who are feeling some unease and distress, it could be because your daily routine has been shattered. Building new routines can be a

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In 1964 the first remote control for a TV was created. Sometime after that, the TV watching experience changed forever. The remote made it easier to watch and control the television. Quite possibly earlier this year you created a remote team.  You may not have wanted one, but here you are. And while the remote

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Maybe you’ve been in a book club, or maybe due to the pandemic your book club has been cancelled.  But have you ever been to a book club with the author(s) of the book?  Now you can read a book, discuss and learn about it from others, and then ask questions of the authors.  Introducing

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