Break the Social Media Addiction Using Nudges
Social media – we love it! Worldwide, upwards of 4 billion people (more than half the humans on the planet) use some form of social media. It’s as ubiquitous as air, water and carbohydrates. [...]
Want to Spy on Employees? Big Brotherware is for You
With so many people working at home, how are you supposed to micromanage them? If that’s your question – and if it’s not, it should be – then Big Brotherware is your answer. Don’t [...]
10 Extreme Ways to Destabilize Your Next Zoom Call
Zoom Fatigue is the signature workplace ailment of the 21st century. But there’s a cure. Use these ten techniques to enliven up your next video meeting. Will these ideas transform you into a more [...]
The Benefits of Working Naked
The old ways of working are as dead as last season’s holiday wreath, as passé as the iPhone 8, the mojito and goat yoga. Doing our jobs from home has made us happier, healthier [...]
The Great Resignation Has Increased Employee-Consumer Power
The last 110 years have brought us a Great War, a Great Depression, a Great Recession and now, a Great Resignation. We’ve experienced this latest upheaval thanks largely to the COVID pandemic. In [...]
Improve Well-being to Reduce Hard and Soft Health Costs – Part 2
Part 1 defined employee well-being, described the effect of job demands and resources and made the case that diminished well-being takes a financial toll. What can a company do to reduce the individual and [...]
Improve Well-being to Reduce Hard and Soft Health Costs – Part 1
As we navigate our way through the COVID-19 pandemic, we have entered a new workplace, one that both differs from and resembles the old work landscape. Some aspects of work will drift back to [...]
We Need a COVID Bill of Responsibilities
The Founding Fathers created many historically important, country-defining documents. Think: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Rules of Baseball (which established our national pastime, granting it independence from the tyrannies of cricket, rounders and stoolball). [...]
Active Empathy is Key to a Fulfilling Employee Deal (Part 2)
In the chemistry of an organization’s culture, empathy is the catalyst that energizes a motivating, mutually beneficial deal between individuals and their companies. Relationships based on empathy feel comfortable, like those well-worn slippers you [...]
Active Empathy is Key to a Fulfilling Employee Deal (Part 1)
Empathy, that uber-noble source of human connection, is really about other people’s shoes: standing in them, walking a mile in them, commiserating with the cobbler’s children who lack them and are forced to wear [...]