At the start of the pandemic, chances are your work life changed. If your role remained, you likely moved from working in the office to working from home. That was a big change for many people to adapt to working apart from each other. From the time we closed offices, many have been waiting for
We’ve been helping individuals and organizations with remote leadership for many years. Not surprisingly, in the last year, the desire to improve remote leadership has been greater than ever. The desire and interest are there. But the willingness to do what it takes to learn the skills isn’t always there. In the past year, we
I recently received an email from the Principal of the High School that I attended, asking if I would help with a project. As the students are getting ready to celebrate a COVID-style homecoming, the staff is asking alum to share messages of encouragement and support. I was happy and honored to do this and
In a fast-paced (and often remote working) world, we seem to run our days on “transactions” – short-term, project-driven tasks. And while transactions get things done in the short term, relationships are built and nourished on interactions. And in a remote working world, relationships are even harder to maintain. That’s why it’s important that we
Our vocabulary has changed over the past year. I recently wrote on Forbes.com about some of those words. Here’s a phrase I didn’t write about: Zoom fatigue. A year ago, that wasn’t even a thing. Heck, most people had never used Zoom. Now, it is a well-known and oft-used term that everyone seems to understand.
There are more podcasts across more genres than ever, and that is certainly true for leadership podcasts. And within every genre, there are hundreds of choices in many different sub-genres. If you have ever had someone recommend a podcast to you, but you didn’t know where to start, we feel your pain. Do you start
Perhaps the toughest transition people make in their professional lives is the transition from being an individual contributor to being a leader. Many years ago, we started calling that the move “from bud to boss” and 10 years ago this week, our book with that title: From Bud to Boss: Secrets to a Successful Transition
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