Leaders everywhere are under increasing pressure to deliver results while fostering trust and connection with their teams. It can feel like an impossible task to lead well and manage your workload. To help you succeed in building trust and...
In case you’ve been living under a rock, “AI” and deep-learning algorithms have made huge advancements in the past year. I mean, just watch ChatGPT describe itself in sailor jargon: At first glance, this technology is terrifying. In fact, when I...
I recently sent buckets of old family photos to get digitized. Going through them, I found this: That’s me, the blonde one in the red dress shading my eyes from the sun. And that’s my mom, holding my brother on her hip. When this was taken, my mom...
What most leaders overlook in their internal communication strategies Leaders need to be able to communicate new changes across their organizations. Yet communication is consistently more complicated and also more intuitive than many believe. Last...
Meet Janice. Janice is a lucky woman. She has a family who loves her (and she loves them, too). She works a nice job that pays a nice salary, so she can live in a nice house in a nice neighborhood and take relatively frequent, relatively nice...
Introducing Cassie, a leader who understands the value of a learning mentality. “I have a challenging conversation tomorrow with a colleague,” she said with a big smile. “But I’m so excited about it. I have a plan. Even if it goes off the rails, it...
My husband is a better cook than I am. And—despite the delicious salad dressings and smoked meats he's known for—sometimes it stings that he's a better cook than me. All this time, I thought I was supposed to do the cooking. Why? Because I'm a...
I'm tired of leaders who are bad for people soaking up all the press. Recently the news has been full of stories about them. I like to call them “the bad ones.” And here’s a whole list of them: The bad ones To start, you’ve got Dan Price, the CEO...
I cut my teeth on group work as a trainer and educator in the wilderness. One of my favorite things was taking teams—often groups of C-suite leaders or high-level managers—river rafting. I did it because it put these leaders in stressful...
Truth-Bomb: With 34% of global knowledge workers going back to the office FT, work-related stress and anxiety hit their worst level since the summer of 2020. In addition, these same workers say that are 2.6X more likely to look for a new job this...