Wayne Turmel, Author at The Kevin Eikenberry Group

Is Working from Home Affecting Your Sleep?

Working from home sounds like a pretty good deal. And it is (mostly). No commute. You can work in your pajamas. You can communicate with the world from the palm of your hand. So why are so many people literally losing sleep? Study after study shows that people who work from home are increasingly suffering

Do You Know Why People Want to Work from Home?

Are your people chomping at the bit to get back to work? Are people so terrified of a few germs they refuse to return? Are they so happy working from home they’ll take any excuse to continue avoiding the office? Or is it something else? Here’s the tricky part: how do you know? A recent

Of Cats, Keyboards, and Building Relationships

Can a cat walking across a keyboard really help your team build working relationships on a remote or hybrid team? I have been thinking about this for a while, and as silly as it sounds, one of the signs of a healthy working relationship might be the team’s reaction to Mister Fluffybutt getting webcam time

Snow Days

Over the past two years, we’ve all learned to work remotely. That’s been a great development for organizational productivity, but as Wayne explains, it’s not always a good thing.

Time to Assess Your Remote and Hybrid Team Culture

We are in an odd time when it comes to discussing work culture. Like being in the eye of a hurricane, we are stuck between the initial panicky onslaught of COVID: “Go work from home and we’ll figure it out,” and looking toward the future: “Okay, we have to figure out what we do next.”

Do You Trust the New Team Member?

When the pandemic hit, one of the more surprising things we learned was how well teams maintained existing relationships and work processes. People who were co-located and teams that functioned at a high level managed to keep it up when they were dispersed. Trust was a big part of that. But two years in, many

The Meeting that Could Have Been an Email

I’ve been researching and writing on virtual meetings for almost twenty years. I’ve heard a lot of complaints, but the one that most amuses is, “I just sat through another meeting that could have been an email.” Sure, it’s funny and looks great on a coffee mug. And we have so many meetings it might

Is Hybrid Work What You Really Want?

Before you rush into hybrid work and simply take it as a foregone, conclusion, take a few moments and consider what hybrid work really is, not just what you’ve heard about it or think it might be.

How Do You Manage Your Down Time?

By the time you read this, the new year will have started. First, let’s acknowledge that 2022 is not a real year. It’s science-fiction. Remember Blade Runner took place in 2019. That aside, we are at the beginning of a new work year. We’ve survived the weird time of year when we are merely guessing

A Red Flag for New Grads About Work from Home

”Because of Covid, we’ve decided not to take on any interns or new grads straight out of school until we are back in the office.” I’ve walked this earth for a long time and been dealing with customers in business for over half that long, so nothing much really surprises me. This comment left me

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