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The Power of Purpose: Helping Your Employees Embrace the Why Behind Their Work

Guest article by Shaara Roman | Author of The Conscious Workplace | Founder & CEO of The Silverene Group As a leader, you know that your employees are the backbone of your organization. They work tirelessly day in and day out to achieve your company’s goals and drive its success. But have you ever stopped

Defining Aspirational Culture on an Existing Team

Odds are you’ve daydreamed of either improving your company or team culture in some way. Maybe you even believe it needs a major overhaul. But does your company or team aspire to the same things you do? As we return to office and reorganize (is anyone out there NOT going through a major re-org?) now

Why Understanding and Being Able to Explain Your Work Matters

If aliens landed in your front yard tomorrow and asked you what you did every day, what would you tell them? This seems like a silly question so let’s make it less complicated. Can you explain your job to your grandparents? Here’s why understanding and being able to explain your job matters. It will be

How to Foster Workplace Friendships that Boost your Bottom Line

Guest article by Shaara Roman As humans, we live for connection. In a world where it can be easy to feel alone, having friends gives us an uplifting sense of belonging… which is quite literally necessary for our survival and our ability to contribute meaningfully to society. Loneliness is widely considered as one of the

Leading Creative Teams: Inventing the Future Together

Guest article by Steven Kowalski, Ph.D. Are you leading a team that’s pioneering and pushing the boundaries? Maybe you’re developing a new service or product feature, debugging a glitch, improving an existing process, evolving your customer engagement strategy, or reinventing your approach in light of some disruption. When we think about it, most of us

Being in Sync Without Being Synchronous

Does being in sync with your teammates mean you have to be on the same schedule? Why do we have so many meetings every day? Why do so many companies insist on people going back to the office? Why do people insist on introducing their cat to people on web chats? When we ask our

Long-Distance “Nuclear” Teams

When we think about Long-Distance Teams, we often take a very narrow view. We spend a lot of time focusing on those people who directly report to us and work with each other. We refer to those people as our “nuclear” team. Maybe we need to think bigger. Taking a cue from families The term

A Broader View of Leader, Teammate, and Team

The wave of remote work was rising for years before the COVID tsunami hit. At that time, most of the concern was on individuals: How do you as a leader need to do to get the most from your teams when you weren’t all in the same place at the same time? How can I

What Is a Work Week?

How long is a “work week?” Which days do you work? Who determines that? If you were asked to work ten hours a day, six days a week, would you consider that excessive? Until a good way through the 20th century, that was the norm. Then we began working Monday to Friday, either 8 to

How is Your Culture Doing?

There has been lots of thinking, concern, and even handwringing about the future of teams and culture in many organizations. As people have thought about and implemented a Return to Office policy (with varying success), they have come to realize that work and the expectations of it have changed. With those changes come questions about

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