I remember flying to LAX on the morning of March 13th. The NBA had cancelled the remainder of the season 36 hours before I took off and the situation was starting to get serious. The feeling in my stomach was that I was shouldn’t be… Read More »50 Things I’ve Learned In The Past 30 Days
Whatever We Want it to Be It (almost literally) happened overnight. One day we were in the office and the next we were home figuring out how to download Zoom and wondering if the pro version was worth it. In the snap of a finger,… Read More »The Future of Work is….
When I was 14 years old, I remember sitting in the driver’s seat of an early-1990s Datsun in my grandparents’ 80-acre field in the Rocky Mountains. My dad was in the passenger’s seat, my knuckles were white from gripping the steering wheel, my throat was… Read More »The Death Of Employee Engagement And What Comes Next
The last month has brought more change than I expected the next five years to. With change comes uncertainty and with uncertainty comes an opportunity to fail, pivot, experiment, and grow. The 50 lessons below aren’t specific as my hopes are that you’ll be able… Read More »50 Things I’ve Learned In The Past Month
How the Early Arrival of the Future of Work is Foreshadowing for the Workplace of Tomorrow The future of work was supposed to be something that was always coming but never arrived. Thought leaders and experts would talk about the ‘future of work’ as a… Read More »Welcome to the Future of Work
How Do I Make Remote Work More Enjoyable? Consider One-Degree Shifts In studying workplace culture and analyzing trends for the future, I’ve learned that there are two things that people hate: change, and the way things are. That puts us in a tough spot, doesn’t… Read More »How Do I Make Remote Work More Enjoyable? Consider One-Degree Shifts
Engaging the Next Generation of Work: 5 Points to Consider Engagement has traditionally be seen as a binary issue; like it can be addressed as a simple, stand-alone topic. But engagement is more than a single focus; it is a buy-in to an organizational culture,… Read More »Engaging the Next Generation of Work: 5 Points to Consider
Breaking Down Generational Barriers It isn’t possible to generalize a generation, and we need to stop trying to do so. The Berlin Wall, constructed in 1961, separated East Berlin from West. On the East side of the wall was, of course, the Soviet sector of… Read More »Breaking Down Generational Barriers
Find the Right Employees Through Storytelling Originally posted from SME Strategy The British Columbia Construction Association states that ‘Even though the youth unemployment rate in BC is 14.5%, only 1 in 85 graduates enter the trades directly out of high school. We need that statistic to… Read More »Find the Right Employees Through Storytelling
The Increasing Importance of Culture Co-written with Daniel Dubois In recent years we’ve seen a reinvention of corporate work-life. For employers, cultural fit is now valued higher than skill. For employees, the cultural experience at work is more valuable than pay and traditional incentive plans.… Read More »The Increasing Importance of Culture