Making your Work Environment Work for You!
How many hours do we spend at work a day? What about a week, month, year? When we’re spending on average 90,000 hours of our lives at work, the environment and people around us has a huge impact on our...
Engagement Surveys and Then Nothing. What’s The Point?
Every year, around the globe, companies spend a bunch of time and money on employee engagement surveys. They ask their employees all kinds of questions about how happy they are at work, how much they like what they do, and...
Building Successful Teams, from the Leader Up
The development of teams and integrating teamwork into the corporate structure is a hugely popular movement for companies across all industries.
Employee Disengagement: What is it and why do leaders need to fix it?
When employees are engaged, it’s easy to see the values and vision of their organization shining through their contributions, innovations, and dedication to their team. Clearly, these are very desirable traits to have in an employee.
Talking Through It: What is Performance Management?
When I look up the definition of performance management, I get a lot of things that sound like this: Performance management is defined as the process of continuous communication and feedback between a manager and employee towards the achievement of...
Make Diversity More Than A Goal
Inclusion and diversity have been topics of increasing importance across all industries for as long as I can remember.
Building an Inclusive Culture
An inclusive culture is one where everyone feels values and respected as a person. I’ve put the emphasis on that word, everyone, because an inclusive culture is one that includes everyone, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, ability, religion, etc.
The Manager’s Role in Psychological Safety and Mental Health
I’ve known for a long time now of the transformative power, on workplace culture, of training managers. Now, there’s research linking the power of managers, good or bad, to affect mental health.
Being a Manager Can Really Suck. But It Doesn’t Have To.
If you’re a manager, you’re stuck in the middle—somewhere between senior leaders, employees who report to you (and maybe some that report to others), and customers. You have responsibility for, seemingly, everything, but sometimes limited decision-making authority.
Want to Keep Your Technicians? Develop Connection and Relationships!
Back in the day, I worked as the Pepsi Taste Challenge girl. Do you remember that? If you do, you’re kind of dating yourself (or does it still go on? maybe it does
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