Learn It as You Need It

As a new or front-line leader, there is much to learn. We have long said the transition to your first leadership job is the toughest transition of your career. There is much to learn, and yet you may not have time for a workshop amid all the work. While a workshop isn’t the only option,

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Not Every Workday Should Be the Same

This might describe you. At the start of 2020, you went to the office every day. In April of that year, you worked from home every day. Now you are, or will be, doing both. Whether you will be in the office most days or at home most days, you need to create the dual

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Becoming a Better Long-Distance Leader

The pandemic is passing. The urgency is waning. The future of work is starting to become a bit clearer. And for many leaders, the future includes leading people at a distance some or all the time. If this is you, how effective do you feel? At the start of (or the exodus to) work from

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Make Work Play: Changing Our Viewpoint About Work

There is more thinking and talking about “work” and what it means now than at any time I can remember. Certainly, we are living in a time of change and the nature and paradigm of work is changing with it. I am all for this discussion and the adaptation of new ideas about when, where,

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A New Way to think About Inclusion

As humans, we know what it feels like to be included – or not. Inclusion in an organizational sense now describes a place/organization/team where everyone feels respected and their contributions towards organizational goals are valued. Few would argue against that goal. Much of the conversation here has been about ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and the

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Flight Instructor and Gardener

n today’s increasingly complex and demanding world, we need leaders to rise up and embrace these two critical roles of what I’m calling flight instructor and gardener.

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