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We said our final goodbyes earlier this week to my grandma. After 93 years of life, her health had been failing recently, and she left us last week.   I was very close with my grandma and the loss hit me pretty hard. I actually wrote about my grandparents on my blog several years ago.   As…

A few weeks ago, I took my youngest son on a ski weekend to Colorado.  Skiing is one of my favorite things to do and being able to share it with my son is purely joyful. But that’s not the point of sharing this story.   My son is new to skiing. This was only his…

For years, the Gallup Organization has told us that managers are the lynchpin in employee engagement.  Based on their data, managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement.  That is an astonishing number. And it’s a double-edged sword.  On the one hand, it suggests that if you are a manager, you can profoundly…

The most important job I have is being a parent.  I love and adore my kids. And I want them to find success in whatever they do.   Like most parents, I find it excruciating to watch my kids struggle.  This brings me to the story I’m going to share with you today.  This story is…

This content was originally posted on the Workhuman blog. You can find the orginal post here. This is part three of a three part series. In part one we explored why employee well-being is vital to performance at work. We discovered that the skill managers need to effectively support well-being is something we don’t traditionally teach at…

This content was originally posted on the Workhuman blog. You can find the orginal post here. This is part two of a three part series. In the first post, we explored why employee well-being is vital to performance at work. And we discovered that the skill managers need to effectively support well-being is something we…

This content was originally posted on the Workhuman blog. You can find the orginal post here. As the summer of 2020 was wrapping up, I knew something wasn’t right. Despite the fact that I’d somehow miraculously pivoted my business after the pandemic had struck and was, by most accounts, doing well, I was tired. Really…

I’m not sure how or why it happened. I’ve always had a high capacity for trusting other people, often before I have any idea if they are trustworthy. I can probably credit my parents and grandparents for that, plus a bit of luck early in my life.  But regardless of how it happened, it happened. …

This week, while I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Armchair Expert, their guest shared a story about how someone had told him that he was being a jerk. In this case, he had earned it (you listen to the episode if you’d like to hear the whole story, it’s a good one)…