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The Work No One Sees. The Cost Everyone Pays.
Imagine this.
You have two people on your team. Both consistently deliver excellent work. They hit deadlines, produce quality results, and clients love working with them.
One of them does something more.
They notice when a new employee is eating lunch alone and invite them to join the team. They sense when an usually upbeat coworker has become unusually quiet. They check in after a difficult client meeting. They celebrate birthdays, welcome new hires, calm conflict before it escalates, and somehow always know who needs a little encouragement.
Now ask yourself this.
Which of those contributions is most likely to determine whether people enjoy coming…
What If Your Perspective Is the Problem?
I’ve spent much of my life believing I was a pretty good judge of people.
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, reading people wasn’t…
The Mistake I Made at 4:30 in the Morning (And What It Taught Me)
It was 4:30 in the morning in New Mexico. I was in an Uber, half-conscious, heading to the airport for yet another flight, when it…
Rethink: 5 Keys to Build Resilience and Results
As 2021 comes to an end, what did you rethink or unlearn over the past couple of years in order to personally and professionally survive…
How Smart Leaders Use Praise That Pays
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”…
5 Ways to Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout
Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout
Are we virtual today, in-person, in-person on alternate days, every other week, masked, unmasked, sometimes masked? And, by the…
3 Steps to Become Interconnected in our Disconnected World
“Life is mostly froth and bubbles, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”
— Emma Burstall, Bestselling Author
Bubbles. They have…
5 Ways to Hold onto Your Employees (P.S. It’s Not What You Think)
There has been a huge shift in the way people are looking at work. I call it “Going from YO-YO to YOLO.”
Most people in corporate…
Judging Too Much? 3 Strategies to Judge Less, Connect More
Please do not judge me for doing this, but I want to tell you an absolutely true story about a judge. She works out at my friend’s gym, and if…
How to Thrive in the Ever-Changing Hybrid Work Model
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy
The pandemic changed our world overnight demanding agility,…
5 Ways to Motivate a Remote Team
As I sat down to write this article, a dated song danced its way into my mind: The Police singing “Message in a Bottle,” with…
