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

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For the first time in human history, two-thirds of our daily work communication and a growing amount of our interpersonal and social communication is being done in writing. Texts, e-mails, and collaboration tools are asynchronous and ubiquitous. How you respond to this probably depends on how old you are. Is this good news, since electronic

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In the time of the Great Resignation, when organizations are cutting operating hours and running leaner than ever because they can’t get the help they need, many have declared a war for talent. I understand the challenges, concerns, and urgency all of the upheaval is causing organizations and leaders. But is it really a war?

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I’ve been saying for a while now that the future of work is flexibility. Flexibility in where people work, but also when they do it – flexible work schedules. Recently, I met and read the book of Joe Sanok who is taking this idea to what some will say is an extreme, but also a

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When we talk to the leaders in organizations about what work will look like in the future, we hear a lot of similar concerns.  They worry about the culture of their organization, and how remote and hybrid work will change things. There’s some concern—although far less than at the beginning of the pandemic—about task completion.

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For years, the conversation about remote work has centered on the differences between working remotely (often from home) and the way we always worked in co-located situations. But what if that comparison is outdated? Specifically, how do you train and on-board new workers who don’t have that frame of reference. In short, you can’t compare

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One of the big challenges we hear about hybrid and remote work is that “collaboration is difficult.” One CEO I spoke to said, “My people just come up with better answers when they can work together physically.” That led to an interesting discussion: What does it mean to come up with the best, or right,

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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

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Have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to get a message through to your remote and hybrid team members? “I told them.” “I put it in an email last week.” “I know this meeting could have been an email. But nobody reads the darned emails! Then we have to have the meeting anyway.” It

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When we think about remote and hybrid teams, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. First of all, everything that negatively impacts a traditional team can cause havoc. Things like a lack of alignment, or micromanagement, or unclear objectives create problems no matter where people work. But there’s one factor that’s lethal

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