“The biggest threat to organizations is the quiet quitting trend…” If you’ve read this headline, or others like it, you probably were either mildly intrigued or completely outraged.Your response says as much about your attitude to your work as anything ever will. Every once in a while, the business press gets hold of an idea
When you were a kid and you broke something, or treated your parents’ property with disrespect, were you told, “This is why we can’t have nice things”? It’s the same idea with technology and team collaboration tools. The tools are (mostly) fine. People are the problem. When we talk to our clients about the challenges
How much time do you spend proving to others that you’re working when you’re not in the office? This sounds silly, but my long-time colleague, Jessica Stillman wrote an article for INC.com recently that gave a name to that behavior: Productivity Theater. Productivity Theater is engaging in behaviors that aren’t terribly productive but give the
If your remote teammates are driving you crazy by constantly interrupting, sending messages and emails at all times of the day and night, or dragging you into too many meetings, there is definitely a problem. Contrary to what you might think, that problem may be you. Whether we are aware of it or not, we
How is your company’s Return to Office (RTO) going? I heard the funniest/saddest thing from someone who attended one of our webinars recently. She was bemoaning the fact that she didn’t want to go back to the office very often because of her co-workers. In fact, her exact words were, “It’s like people were raised
There is a lot of noise around remote work, and it’s hard to figure out where the signal is. The Nay-Sayers say the COVID-level amount of working from home is unsustainable over the long haul, and people who do it are focusing on their lives but not their careers. They’ll find out eventually. Meanwhile, supporters
Do you struggle with proximity bias? The answer may reflect the future of your hybrid or remote team. First, we need to define the term. Proximity bias, as the name implies, means to favor the people closest to you physically. For teammates, this can mean working closer with those who share an office space than
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