I live in Las Vegas, so I follow the comings and goings of the hospitality industry like those of you in small towns follow your top employers. It didn’t come as a huge surprise to me to find this article making the rounds here. At first, I laughed, because “Viva Las Office” is the most
Of all the people predicting doom and gloom when entire organizations began to work from home, none were doomier or gloomier than CEOs. Many had resisted implementing wide-ranging work from home options. They had to implement remote work in practically no time, often without a real plan, and hope the company didn’t implode in the
March 17, 2020. That’s the day things basically shut down here in the US and many of us entered the remote workplace full time. Certainly, it’s been longer for those of you in Europe and other countries. It feels like we’ve been doing this forever. While nobody can say for sure what the workplace, and
Someone asked me a tricky question the other day, and in thinking through the answer I realized that there are a whole lot of people working from home these days who never planned to—at least for months at a time. As a result, companies and workers are faced with some sticky situations that aren’t covered
Few consider meetings the highlight of their workday – more probably consider it the bane of their work life. It is true that meetings, while important and potentially useful, aren’t always very good. Sadly, now that most meetings are being held virtually, it hasn’t gotten any better. The challenge is how to have more effective
What do monkeys have to do with successfully working from home? A recent article from Harvard Business Review online studied how the COVID-19 inspired surge in working from home has impacted business. We’ll probably do a better examination in a future article, but one of the things that surprised the authors was this: Despite all
Everyone knows that new things go better when people know what to expect and how things work. That is the idea and intent behind onboarding – providing information and insight to help people succeed and thrive faster in a new job. Onboarding has been taken more seriously and given more attention in recent years for
Zoom. At the beginning of the year, maybe you had heard of this tool for online meetings. Now, like Band-Aid and Xerox, it is a product name that has become a verb. People are creating and sending Zoom links for everything from first grade instruction to daily meetings to conversations between grandparents and grandkids. It
If you are coaching others in the workplace, you probably have some sort of performance management process. While these typically culminate in the annual meeting, many suggest or require at least a midyear check-in too. Even if your process doesn’t suggest that, I believe you benefit everyone by having midyear check-ins. The question is, how
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