No Culture is Perfect, But One is Right for You

If you have your Business Buzzword Bingo card handy, get ready to put another phrase on it. The hottest topic in remote and hybrid work is “culture.” Specifically, creating a “one-team” culture as we move to more hybrid work. The idea of “one team” is important. The phrase recognizes that hybrid work contains the seeds

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Lessons Learned from a Pain in the Neck

Have you ever had an employee who was a pain in the neck? One who you just didn’t like interacting with, and who created more work for you than everyone else? If you’re honest, the answer is yes. Don’t feel bad, every manager has, and we won’t ask the person’s name. Your secret is safe

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Becoming Comfortable with Ambiguity

Does this sound like your workplace these days?  You’re going back to work. Oops, you can go back if you want, with restrictions. Nope, everyone needs to come back next month. Sorry, we thought it was next month, now it’s January. The heck with it, we’ll just go hybrid and everyone can make up their

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Being a Long-Distance Role Model

Ask most anyone to tell you why someone is a great leader, and you will likely hear that they are a role model.  Ask most who are leading remotely, and they will wonder what it means to be a long-distance role model. After all, how can you be a role model if people can’t even

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Elevating Your Leadership Requires Vertical Development

by Ryan Gottfredson, PhD. If you are a computer scientist and you want to improve your computer so that it can more effectively perform the functions that it needs to, which option for improvement would you prefer: Adding new programs and apps, or Upgrading the computer’s operating system? If you are an Air Force general

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Does Your Leadership Need Fixing?

by Minter Dial There have been many articles and pundits bemoaning a lack of good leadership. In politics, business or society in general, the past few years have certainly tested leaders around the world. Whether it is termed as a crisis in leadership, a lack of direction or a confused moral compass, many leaders are

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Avoiding Cliques on Your Hybrid Team

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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Why Leaders Need Empathy Now More than Ever

How have the events of the past couple of years affected you? For some they’ve been among the most difficult ever. For others, they’ve been inconvenient at worst. No matter which end of this spectrum you’re on personally, realize that those you lead need you to have empathy as a leader. Make sure you and

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Effective Collaboration on a Hybrid Team

“We need collaboration.” Just one of the reasons some organizations give when announcing their decision to bring everyone back to the office. In fact, it is the second most common concern about a hybrid workplace. The first concern is usually “We need to be together for our culture.” (I’ve dispelled that myth in this post.)

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Why Your Culture Will Be Different in the Future

The title implies an important point: Your organizational culture is changing. And by the way, “changing” doesn’t mean going back to the way it was in 2019 (even if you hope so). I will tell you why your post pandemic culture will be different. But first, let me share a simple definition of organizational (or

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