Before the pandemic the digital revolution and the subsequent transformation of the great American workplace was an elitist dream. Today it’s SOP. COVID-19 fractured many things in our lives including standard corporate business operations, and digital technology...
As debates and speculations circulate about the status of the pandemic, many companies are in the heat of critical debates and speculations of their own. Their key concerns involve rebuilding their teams and redefining their culture. What is culture? Google says it’s...
March is Women’s History Month and this year National Women’s History Alliance chose the theme: “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” “The 2022 Women’s History theme, ‘Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,’ is a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline...
February. Black history month. And what’s it got to do with you anyway? In 1923 an African American trailblazer named Garrett Morgan invented the 3-light traffic signal. Consider that next time you make that green light just in the nick of time. Or when you’re stuck...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. DEI—more alphabet soup to express one simple idea: “Can’t we just get over ourselves and get along?” Inclusion or exclusion: let me count the ways Actually there are many ways to include or exclude people: in addition to race and gender,...
Charitable workshops are the gold standard for effective employee engagement and team building because: they create a sense of community among participants; the office-hierarchy is suspended for a few hours; the company’s commitment to corporate social responsibility...
Want to sell your company brand to the world? Sell it to your employees first! Winning over your staff can be the first step to a windfall of customers and sales. Effective employer branding turns employees into brand advocates. And these advocates inevitably and...
There’s a picture on Reddit of a young CEO washing dishes after treating his staff to lunch. One of his employees crowed, “... and that’s why I love my job.” Was it the food or the dish washing? Maybe a bit of both. But more than likely, it was the humanity of the...
The holidays are fast approaching and no doubt you and your staff could use a big dose of cheer and glad tidings. Struggles, trials, wins, and losses. You've all been through so much together this year. Perhaps the greatest gift that you can give yourself and your...
I'm a human being….My life has value! I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! Remember this famous war cry in the 1975 movie, “Network”? That exasperated character, Howard Beale, could easily be the poster child for the Great Resignation of 2021....