3 Must-Have Internal Communication Tools for High-Performing Teams
Is your team overloaded by communication? These easy, low-tech internal communication tools will transform your team's productivity, reclaim focus, and can be implemented today.
Is Your Work Meaningful? 4 Ways To Cultivate A More Fulfilling Career
In a world where the average person spends over 90,000 hours working, finding meaningful work stands out as a beacon. Here are four strategies that nurture attention and align work with values — helping cultivate a career with fulfillment and meaning.
Indisruptable: The Remedy For Easily Distracted Habits, And Their Costly Consequences
Easily distracted? Me too. In today’s hyper-connected and always-busy world, being easily distracted is the norm, and the costly consequences that accompany it are common. Here are four ways overcome distraction and learn to thrive in an era of endless disruptions.
3 Ways to Overcome Employee Disengagement and Start 2024 Refreshed
Employee engagement levels have plummeted. Even more concerning is that over the holidays workers can become extra disengaged and withdrawn. Here are 3 ways to combat disengagement and give yourself and your team a fresh start in 2024.
The Great Employee Appreciation Conundrum: 2023 Holiday Edition
We all know that appreciation is a significant job satisfaction factor, but what does that entail during the holidays? Are Christmas gifts for employees the best way to show them they’re valued? What kind of gifts do employees want? What is the golden standard for holiday gifting in the corporate realm? And how do you keep corporate morale up when the end of year budget is tight? This blog post provides a go-to-guide for showing staff appreciation this holiday season.
Thriving in an Overwhelming World: The Power of Setting Boundaries
We live in a world of abundant choices and convenience, yet most of us feel less fulfilled and content. As a whole, society holds a sense of dissatisfaction, stress, and anxiety.
This blog post dives deep into the paradox of living in a world of “more” while feeling less satisfied, and it explores the concept of setting boundaries at work and in life — how by establishing limits and learning to say "no," we can lead more focused, purposeful, and meaningful lives.
Breaking Point: What Happens When Leaders Burn Out?
Nearly 70% of C-suite executives are seriously considering quitting for a job that better supports their well-being. Leadership burnout has a profound ripple effect throughout an organization, compromising both productivity and morale — it’s time to address the problem and quit assuming that leaders are exempt from the overwhelm plaguing corporate cultures.
How to be a (Happy) High Achiever
High achieving individuals are intimately acquainted with the unyielding pursuit to constantly achieve more, acquire more, and become more. While this innate drive has been responsible for remarkable progress throughout history, it also carries a significant toll. This blog post unpacks how high achievers can takes steps toward pairing their successes with true happiness and fulfillment.
How to be More Creative (and be Better at Your Job)
Humans are naturally curious and creative. The desire to explore, innovate, and create is embedded within us. Individuals thrive when given the chance to tap into their creativity, and business success is almost always linked to some sort of innovation. While organizations need creative thinkers, most corporate work cultures are quick to stifle innovation and creativity.
Leadership Best Practices that No Longer Work
How do you be a good leader today? Companies that want to attract new talent — and increase engagement among current employees — recognize that outdated leadership styles need to be forfeited, and replaced with new leadership best practices that are relevant to today’s tech-heavy, innovative, and ever-evolving workforce.
Turn Your Too-Engaged Employees into Great Mentors
Most of us want engaged employees — and we talk a lot about how to achieve a thriving company culture with invested team members. But occasionally a senior employee is so involved that they get in everyone's way. And similar to disengagement, too much engagement is also a problem. Here is how you can create opportunities that will channel their wisdom and enthusiasm is a more positive way.
What Causes Overwhelm, Stress, and Anxiety at Work?
Herbert J Freudenberger coined the term “burnout syndrome” in the 1970s. He recognized that those affected by burnout were tired, snippy, and cynical at work and they had physical symptoms such as headaches, stomach problems, trouble sleeping, and shortness of breath. Fast forward fifty years and burnout levels are at an all time high. What is the cause and — more importantly — what needs to change in the future of work?
People Leadership: 3 Things for CEOs to Get Right in 2024
The fundamentals of people leadership are changing for CEOs, and to succeed, they’ll have to get three things right in 2024 that rely on emotional intelligence in addition to intellect: leading through uncertainty, self-awareness, and establishing an extremely competitive workforce value proposition.
Why Employees aren’t Motivated by your Mission Statement
Your company’s mission statement isn’t what motivates you or your team.
What motivates you to do a good job? It’s in the answers to these three questions.
How to Avoid Burnout and Like Work Again
Curt Steinhorst’s debut TedX Talk reveals the keys to finding fulfillment, meaning, and joy in work.