Everyone’s heard stories of bad bosses, or maybe even experienced one themselves. Having a bad boss can cause a negative workplace environment, impact self-esteem, cause a reduction in emotional and physical wellbeing and cause burnout.
Havin…
We go out of our way to hire talented, creative people. Then we waste their skills by putting them in a box, giving them a checklist, and complaining as they slowly transform into unmotivated employees who can’t do effective work.
In many org…
“Be aggressive,” Jim Womack, a local Republican Party chair in North Carolina, told the grid of faces who joined the Zoom training session for volunteers to monitor voting on Nov. 5. “The more assertive and aggressive you are in watc…
When Deborah May decided to grow her Mobile, Alabama home daycare from five children to 10, she had the support of her neighbors, her homeowners association, and even the local planning commission. But in May, the city council denied her plan, with on…
After two decades of working in learning and development, I’ve coached countless individuals on everything from giving actionable feedback to compelling communication strategies. But if there is one message I believe everyone in the C-suite need…
Forget burnout at work. Are you at risk of “boreout”?
Stress and employee burnout are at record-high levels. According to Gallup, three in four U.S. employees experience workplace burnout “at least sometimes,” and about one in four expe…
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was known by his colleagues as “the Great Explainer.” Using his communication skill, he could break down complex, scientific material, like general relativity and quantum mechanics, in the simplest terms, …
A growing number of students in public schools—right now, about 15% of them—are eligible for special education services. These services include specially designed instruction for students with autism, learning or physical disabilities, or traumatic br…
Today many people wish to break away from their corporate jobs and become entrepreneurs. And apparently they find satisfaction in doing so, because 96% of people who are self-employed have no desire to go back to a “regular job.”
But it…
Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccol has his work cut out for him.
Tasked with reassuring investors that the company’s coffee shops are still hugely popular in the U.S., Niccol also has to contend with baristas and hardcore Starbucks custome…
