There are seasons at every job where there is less work to do. For most employees, that is a wonderful time to take a deep breath and catch up on a few things that got pushed to the back burner. However, there are other people who are in jobs that are not keeping them busy for the full hours they are employed. If that employee chose to read a book to fill up the time, would that be stealing from the company or the problem of an underprepared employer? This blog wrestles with these issues…which recently sent me into a not-so-pretty anxiety spiral.

The Great Resignation (or Great Reshuffling) has caused a lot of people to contemplate quitting their job in the last year. If you are considering doing likewise in the near future, we have some advice on how to go about quitting in the best possible way.

We think Trust and Communication are foundational to good leadership, people development, and company culture. We aren’t the only ones. Read more to find out why.

Great leaders didn’t just sprout up in the boardroom, fully formed and gifted in leadership. It takes vulnerability, work, and a willingness to want to learn to be a good leader. But we believe that good leaders don’t have to be unicorns, either. So what work are you willing to do in 2022 to become a good (or better) leader?

Why do we put so much pressure on a single day of the year to declare new beginnings both personally and professionally? Were we really such terrible versions of ourselves just 24 hours earlier? Let's stop making 1 day out of the 29,200 we live (on average) filled with so much pressure to perfect!

Today we’ll take a look back at the good and not so good about 2021, and think about what changes 2022 could bring for our work and leadership! Happy New Year!

How important is the return to work after 18 months of mostly working from home? If the reasons for bringing employees back into the office spring from the inabilities of employers and leaders to think creatively or the need to see employees in order to trust that they are actually working, then we’ve got bigger problems than just getting all of our employees vaccinated. Perhaps it’s finally time to update our leadership skills and assumptions about what good work, good employees, and good leaders look like.

Accountability is not just for financial giants, media moguls, or access-controlled web blockers to curb temptation. Accountability is a word that should be as common in your organization as “circle back” and “bandwidth.” If you as a leader are not currently making sure that you are being held accountable, and in a way that your employees can see, your company culture might be on shaky ground. In this blog we are going to explore the profundity: Unaccountable leadership can destroy office culture; left unchecked, an entire organization.

As an employer, are you working to develop the potential of your employees, or judging them merely on past performance or their limitations? If we thought about our staff a bit more like high school student actors, perhaps we could do more to develop potential and possibility rather than relegating them to the back row because a particular project didn’t showcase their strengths. That means though, that good leaders have to put in the time and investment to pull out that potential from all employees. Are you willing to put in that work?

As the world transitions (finally?) from Baby Boomers to Generation Z in the workplace, it’s going to take some work to download institutional knowledge from the old guard to the new custodians of business. Right now, many people are voicing a disconnect between the two which doesn’t have to be there. Mentoring is the key to a smooth and successful transition. Me

What would it have looked like if you finished college and started your first job during a pandemic? Instead of maligning Generation Z, let’s put ourselves in their shoes and start figuring out how to mentor them, not malign them.