The world of work is always going through transformation, and the last few years have been those of profound and exponential changes to our work realities. While every organization may be dealing with a different set of priorities and challenges, the concept of effectiveness can never lose its shine in …
Five Aspects of Collaboration Styles that Boost Team Productivity
Five Aspects of Collaboration Styles that Boost Team Productivity We’re in for the long haul to restore all-round health, folks. The coronavirus pandemic isn’t a sprint anymore but a marathon. The current landscape feels like we’re all in the Iditarod – no normal marathon but a month-long race across the frozen tundra, …
Maintaining Productivity Through the Riptide of COVID
“The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.” ~Michele Rosenthal Maintaining Productivity Through the …
Mentorship for return-to-the-office productivity
Mentoring fosters fairness, goodwill and healthy new norms at work Preparing employees to return to the office post-pandemic is shaping up to be a tricky, unenviable task that is fraught with complexity. Almost no employee wants to return to the office full time and almost no one will do so, …
Adaptability in the Workplace
Cross-pollinate talents and personalities for an adaptable workplace Work and workspaces are certainly interesting “places” these days. My network connections and the mentors and mentees I am speaking with tell me of mass resignations and small rebellions at work – some large departments losing 30% of their workforce; people pushing …
2021: We intend to make a difference
Setting an intent for your work and life can provide both a compass and a filter. When we set intentions, we build on the accomplishments, lessons, support and circumstances that got us here; these experiences made us ready to resolve to move forward. We can acknowledge mentors, collaborators, partners and, …
Refine the struggle: How to minimize chaos through change
The world of work is going through its most profound change in decades, which is saying something, because it is always transforming. Back in the “before times” we already felt the transformation happening as the work realities of previous generations have steadily shifted and turned over. The fallout from the …
Using “Yes, and” to confront reality and calibrate for the future
In these challenging pandemic times, we need a new vision, a new way to create our success, and the motivation to overcome the many challenges on the path forward. “Yes, and” is a fundamental improv exercise that teaches us how to assimilate new information and contribute to the scene. First …
Hitting the wall (and how to find a ladder over)
I hit the wall so hard a few weeks ago I left a Christy-shaped dent. When I looked around, I realized there was a swarm of people experiencing the same thing, either trying to shake it off like me, or in various states of impact. Right about that time, the interwebs …