“What? All your employees work from home? How does that work? How do you make sure they’re actually working?” These questions have become common responses … Read more
The Pandemic Has Been Great for Productivity, But…
Change has always been the only constant in the workplace, especially over the past six months. Employees have faced significant change as they’ve adjusted … Read more
Traditional Approaches to Innovation Are Not Enough
A recent Google search for the phrase “culture of innovation” yielded 665,000,000 results. There is no shortage of opinions on how to create an environment … Read more
Change Fatigue Is Threatening Your Business
Our COVID-19 world is a textbook situation for increased burnout. Less than a year ago, the World Health Organization named burnout a workplace syndrome … Read more
Don’t Blame Zoom Fatigue for Ineffective Meetings
Zoom fatigue. Everyone is talking about it — you know, the exhaustion one feels as a result of constant video meetings. Could that be why your team isn’t … Read more
What I’ve Learned During My Decade As a Remote Manager
When COVID-19 hit this past spring, few of us expected our lives to be disrupted to such an extent. What began as a sudden interruption and presumed … Read more
The Role of Employers in Educating the Children of Employees
School is starting, but for most of America, the schoolroom is your kitchen. How do you keep all the balls up in the air and moving? Right now, parents are … Read more
Large Companies Can Learn Big Lessons From Small Startups
Large companies looking for ways to build success often look to other large companies for best practices. At some level, it’s understandable to try to gain … Read more
The One Question You Have to Answer Correctly Every Time
As an HR leader, you get questions every day; some serious, some trivial. “What else is the company going to do to protect us from COVID?” “What did you … Read more
Is Remote Work Failing Your Company? The Problem Might Be Your Company.
When the pandemic sent everyone home to work for the foreseeable future, little changed for those already accustomed to working from home. Many of these … Read more
Watch Out for the Employee Productivity Pendulum
A misguided sense of comfort is deluding executive leaders as they recognize that remote employees are actually productive. Yes, there’s ample evidence of … Read more
8 Ways to Use Soft Skills to Drive Innovation
Innovation appears in most organizations’ strategy or mission statements. But what does it actually take to achieve innovation? It takes people. … Read more
Go-Getters Take Notes, Eat Healthy and Have Bosses Who Don’t
Having a calm workplace is an important part of encouraging productivity. It’s especially important now, given that there are more distractions at work now … Read more
You Can’t Make Anyone Happy, But You Can Support and Empower Them
“Happy people work harder.” At first glance this may seem obvious: If an employee is happy at work, they are more likely to care about their work product … Read more
A Productivity Platform Can Keep You From Drowning In Data
Data surrounds everything we do. It’s estimated that last year the world created 33 zettabytes of data. By 2025 the estimate is that will climb to 175ZB. … Read more
Workaholism: It’s Not Good For You, Your Team Or the Business
“Excessive work can be viewed as an addictive behavior” with “dysfunctional behavior patterns that interfere with operations.” — Gayle Porter, PhD, … Read more
Productivity Doesn’t Make You Efficient
Most of us know the difference between effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness is doing the right things, while efficiency is doing things right. Their … Read more
The Relationship of Distraction, Resilience and Engagement
Sheryl knew she had a problem. As a senior partner at one of America’s leading law firms, she was charged with managing the associate class of attorneys. … Read more
Are You Productive Or Just Busy?
We all know the standard definition of productivity: The amount of something produced in a given unit of time. That’s difficult to determine in some jobs. … Read more
Here’s How to Measure Administrative Bloat, er, Call That ‘Productivity’
There are some board-level people metrics that are sometimes labeled as productivity metrics but are probably better understood as administrative bloat … Read more