If you’ve been leading for more than five minutes, you know uncertainty is part of the job. But lately, it feels like the volume has been turned up. While mergers, market shifts, reorganizations, and leadership changes have always happened. What’s different now is that many of our teams are remote or hybrid, which means the
When your manager leaves, who steps into her role? If a new position opens across the company, how do you make sure you’re considered—or even know it exists before it’s filled?Succession planning is a popular topic at HR and leadership conferences. But in many organizations, it’s seen primarily as a leadership or organizational issue. That’s
The shift to hybrid work was born out of necessity — but continues with over 60% of companies having some kind of hybrid arrangement, and they aren’t thrilled with the results. In fact, the recent statics show that 77% of Fortune 500 companies have flexible or partly remote arrangements, but report dissatisfaction from both organizations
As hybrid work increasingly becomes the norm, many organizations have abandoned “remote leadership” training. After all, most people are in the office most of the time so that should be our default mindset. The dissatisfaction with hybrid work from both employees and leaders says that’s probably not a safe assumption. As the way we work continues
Hybrid work is here, but it doesn’t seem to get any more efficient. It doesn’t seem to actually address problems of engagement, morale or productivity. We ask: what’s optimum? Two days at home? Full time in the office? No matter what data you draw from, it seems that there’s a challenge few companies seem to
We’ve heard of “cross-functional teams,” and most of us have been part of one. But too many people have a different challenge. They’re on cross-DYSfunctional teams.One of the most common reasons for “Return to Office,” (RTO) policies is the fear that the team won’t work together as a unit if they are not physically together
Are you a snowplow manager? How do you know? There are an awful lot of cute names for bad leadership out there. You know about micro-managers, seagull managers, and fireman managers. Now the adorable list of bad ways to lead people has a new entrant. A snowplow manager is one who spends too much time moving
You’ve probably heard the term “AI hallucination.” That means when there is data missing, AI will make things up that make sense to itself. There’s a huge problem here: I don’t need a machine that thinks like I do. We keep hearing that Artificial Intelligence is smarter and more reliable than the human brain for a
I have recently taken up bird watching. I don’t tell you that so you think I’m cool, (It wouldn’t work. No cool person has ever said, “I’m a birder.”) But it has me thinking about birds. And evolution. And, on a particular Sunday afternoon, about the evolving workplace. Stick with me on this, there’s a
Something we have been doing our entire lives should be easy and instinctual. Right? What if that thing is communicating? If it’s so natural, why are we always complaining that someone misunderstood what we said, or that meeting could have been an email, but nobody read the email!? This is particularly common in remote work
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