In life, we are often faced with challenges that test our strength, our resolve, and our character. These obstacles, whether personal, financial, or societal, may feel insurmountable at times. It is in these moments of adversity, however, that our resilience…
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3 Things To Do When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed At Work
These are stressful times we are all facing in the age of COVID-19. This past year has taught us more than ever how important our mental health is. Our mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects…
Posted in Stress Management
Top 5 Tips To Reimagine Your Virtual Onboarding Experience
When my partner and I got married in June – in the middle of a pandemic – we wanted to bring together friends and family to join us in celebrating this special moment in our lives. After exchanging our vows…
Posted in Virtual Onboarding Tagged with: corporate values, employee engagement, employee handbook, Great Resignation, new hire buddy, new hires, onboarding, onboarding experience, onboarding practices, organizational norms, pandemic, personality assessment, reimagine, rethink, talent, talent management, virtual onboarding, virtual work, work from home, workforce
Managing Executive Competition to Deliver a Successful Project
Managing a complex merger integration and keeping your sponsors and key stakeholders engaged is hard enough. So what are you supposed to do when your sponsors don’t get along with each other? How do you keep the multiple workstreams on…
Employee Engagement & Psychological Safety in the Post-Pandemic Workplace
If you knew 60% of your workforce would quit tomorrow, what would you do? While seemingly alarmist, this statistic reflects what we’re seeing in study after study as we emerge from the pandemic. Sixty percent of employees who worked from…
Posted in corona virus, Virtual Workplace Tagged with: employee engagement, employee satisfaction survey, employees, engagement, HR, HR practices, hybrid work, hybrid workplace, Leadership Development, managers, norms, onboarding, performance management, post-pandemic workplace, psychological safety, recruitment, supervisors, virtual work, workplace
Beyond Business Continuity Planning
This past year has shown us what it takes to be resilient and keep your business going. While it has been deemed an “unprecedented” time, 2020 is but one example of a business disruption we must plan for and take…
Posted in business cotinuity, business disrumption, growth strategy, recovery plan, risk mitigation, VUCA Tagged with: business continuity, business continuity plan, business continuity planning, business continuity program, Business disruption, growth strategy, recovery plan, risk mitigation, risk mitigation strategy, VUCA, VUCA world
DEI & Vulnerability: How Leaders Can Drive Belonging in the Workplace
In the past five years, we have witnessed a shift as business leaders directly address societal issues, recognizing their employees and consumers are conscientious of business and brand stances on societal events. As we approach the one-year mark since George…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: awareness, belonging, bias, coach, curiosity, DEI, DEI-B, dialogue, difficult conversations, diversity, engagement, equity, George Floyd, George Floyd’s murder, growth, inclusion, leaders, mentor, mindset, mosaic mindset, openness, organizational values, power sharing mindset, societal change, societal issues, unconscious bias, understanding, values, vulnerability, workplace
Success with Change Management & Digital Transformation
Even the pandemic-driven work-from-home arrangements provide the ability for employees to stay connected at any hour of the day. This environment also increases the need for team members to step away from their constant screen time and manage blurred work/life…
Posted in Change Fatigue, Change management, Communication, Digital Transformation, User Experience Tagged with: agile work environments, business users, Change, change fatigue, Change management, change methodology, communication, digital solutions, Digital Transformation, high-performing teams, Positive Change, stakeholder feedback, technology implementation, training, user experience
Unlocking the Wealth Trapped Inside Your Business
Did you know only about 20% of all privately held companies offered for sale each year actually sell? And only around 30% of all family businesses in the U.S. successfully transition from their first to second generation. Maybe worse, 75%…
Posted in Customer Engagement Tagged with: Baby Boomers, business, business owners, culture, customer engagement, discovery, exit, financial planner, gaps, go-to-market, impact, market conditions, preparation, privately-held businesses, pros and cons, readiness, savings, value, Wealth
Making Better Data-driven Decisions to Drive Business Performance
At the turn of the century, we couldn’t get enough data. By 2010, we had a multitude of data. Now, we’re swimming in more data than we can possibly use. Gartner recently noted that organizations use only a fraction of…
Posted in Performance Improvement, Problem-Solving, Strategic Planning Tagged with: analytics, business intelligence, business performance, critical thinking, customer relationships, Data, data analytics, goals, hypotheses, interconnectivity, outcomes, performance improvement, priorities, problem solving, strategic planning
