Does working from home save you money or add to your expenses? The answer might not be as simple as you think. As usual with complicated questions, it may get answered in a court of law. The LA Times recently ran an article on the increasing number of law suits against employers for money employees

Read More

by Angie Morgan You can lead without being a manager. You can manage without being a leader. Leadership is always a choice.  Choose to lead.  I’ve managed, I’ve led, and I’ve coached managers who’ve aspired to be stronger leaders.  I can distill my experience and advice down to five simple things that I think every

Read More

Remember back before we got sent home for having cooties? Two or three years ago, when the workplace was as it had always been, we hated meetings. We complained constantly about them:  A waste of time. Productivity killer. Boring. Remember? Now, when we ask people what the biggest reason for returning to the office is,

Read More

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

Read More

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.”

Read More

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.

Read More

by Kevin Eikenberry Our surroundings impact our thinking and perspective a great deal.  When we walk into a building with a company logo on the door, see news and metrics on hallway monitors, we are being reminded in subconscious ways of what we are doing and what we are a part of.  When we work

Read More

by Kevin Eikenberry Regardless of your industry, organization, and position, the last year and a half has changed your experience and perspective, and likely altered the ways your organization (and you personally) could work in the future.  While the future is always unclear, the level of uncertainty is as high as it has been in

Read More

by Jason Miller Generation Z, the next large group of future employees and soon-to-be college and trade school graduates, are looking at work differently than any generation before. They’ve lived through a pandemic right at the time of their lives when many teens and young adults choose college majors, potential career paths, and still find

Read More

More teams are working in hybrid ways than ever before. That creates opportunities and challenges, none more obvious than for people joining a hybrid team right now. The COVID pandemic has certainly impacted some teams more than others. We work with clients who have kept their team intact for the last 20 months with productivity

Read More