Maybe the most divisive topic in remote work is whether email is a help or a hindrance to our productivity. It’s fast, convenient and pretty much free. On the other hand, there’s too much of it, our inboxes are inundated, and responding to all those notifications stops us from doing other, more productive, work. There

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Get a couple of books under your belt, and people ask you a lot of questions (and expect answers). Lately we have been asked about the skills needed for organizations to grow. I struggle to answer it, because the answer isn’t that simple. It’s easy to throw around buzzwords like, “ideation,” and everyone’s favorite, “synergistic

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It’s really difficult to achieve common goals when employers and employees are pursuing different aims. Wayne talks about the different wants and needs employers and employees are expressing today and how they can get on the same page. Whether you’re an employer or employee, you need to stay up to date on all the fast-moving

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When you have a hybrid team, some of your team works in the office, some work from home, and some work who-knows-where depending on the day. That can make it hard to create a cohesive team. It isn’t that the team intentionally doesn’t want to work with people who don’t share their workspace, or that

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Remote work was on the rise long before the COVID pandemic hit. The trend was already towards greater flexibility and mobility in how we do our jobs.  So, it’s no big surprise that there are some obvious short-term changes in the workplace: more hybrid work teams, ubiquitous webcams (along with the accompanying “Zoom fatigue”) and

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You’ve no doubt heard about “Zoom Fatigue” and other related complaints about technology. Wayne takes a look at why so many of us are becoming exhausted by the very tools that were designed to make our jobs easier and more productive. How well does your team communicate using the tools available to them? Do you

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One of the most common complaints about working on a virtual or hybrid team is, “People can’t brainstorm and collaborate the way they do in the office.” For many teams, this is a critical issue because the whole point of being in teams is to create a sum that’s greater than all of the talented

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“Nobody wants to work anymore.” “Millennials are all entitled punks.” “What do they expect? They call it work for a reason.” Odds are you’ve heard one of these comments recently (or some similar sentiment) when business leaders talk about their attempts to re-staff after the pandemic. While complaining about the demands of employees isn’t anything

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It’s one thing to have an existing team change the way they work. But what about bringing new people into the fold on a hybrid team?  Most of the focus on returning to work has been on getting your existing team members to work together in more of a hybrid way. Not everyone is going

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Despite an uptick in cases, and concerns about new variants, many of us are starting to feel like the COVID shutdown is somewhere near an end. We’re either ready to make plans to re-enter our old workspaces or form new hybrid teams, but we just want to get on with it. Unfortunately, you can’t let

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