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5 Words to Help You Master the Future of Work
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Some of the best advice I ever got came almost 30 years ago. I was in high school.  Being a bonafide band nerd, I was spending a week of my summer vacation at the Clark Terry Jazz Camp hoping to polish my trumpet skills enough to become king of nerds—First Chair Trumpet. (Not sure that’s…

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The Simple Way to Avoid Being a Bad Boss
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While it’s been a long time since it first happened, I still remember the gravity of the responsibility I felt when first asked to supervise people at work.  A manager has a profound impact not just on our experience at work but also on our life. When you get it wrong, there are real consequences…

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[Video] Do You Have This Management Blindspot?
 [Video] Do You Have This Management Blindspot? 150 150 Jason Lauritsen
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Over the past year, you’ve probably learned that when a team is “distributed,” it becomes more complicated to manage. And we’ve focused a lot of attention on how being distributed out of a centralized office location has changed how we manage and work. Distributed = greater management complexity. But there’s a bigger lesson we should…

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Managing Through Love
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Dr. Vivek Murthy, the United States Surgeon General, recently gave the commencement address to the UC Berkeley School of Public Health graduates.  In his comments, he provided some interesting and compelling advice to these graduates, most of whom are entering into a life of service through public health. Among his closing remarks, he said something…

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[Video] Should We Still Be Shaking Hands?
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I don’t know about you, but as more people get vaccinated, the world seems determined to make its way back to normal. In some ways, this is comforting. But I’m feeling a little unsettled. Amidst the terribleness of the pandemic, we were forced to stop and change things about how we live and work. In…

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How Much Should a Manager Know About Their Employees’ Personal Lives? 
 How Much Should a Manager Know About Their Employees’ Personal Lives?  1080 720 Jason Lauritsen
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Over the past several months, I’ve been working hard to spread the message that what managers need to successfully navigate this new future of work is compassion.  Compassion connects an awareness of the struggles and suffering of employees with caring actions to help them through it. It’s a big and important step beyond empathy, and…

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3 Big Things You’re Getting Wrong about Post-Pandemic Work
 3 Big Things You’re Getting Wrong about Post-Pandemic Work 1080 720 Jason Lauritsen
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We’ve officially entered the part of our pandemic journey where we can start planning for how our teams or organizations will work once this virus is under control. To wrestle through sorting out what changes to keep and which to discard as we try to find a new equilibrium.   This is particularly true for…

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How Has Employee Experience Changed?
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I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’ve spent a lot of time trying to make sense of things over the last year.  So many things changed so quickly. It was disorienting.  Very little has felt certain or settled.  And maybe the one thing that has felt the most uncertain and beyond our…

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employee wellbeing discussion
Why Employee Well-being is Vital to Work Performance
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There’s a lot of talk about employee well-being right now.  Apparently, suffering through a global pandemic is enough to finally get us thinking about our well-being more seriously. The consequences of a lack of well-being have been laid bare over the last year.   But employee well-being isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s been lurking in the…

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management through the cultivation mindset
Management Needs an Upgrade: The Cultivation Mindset
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The past year forced a lot of changes in the way work happens. When, where, and how we work was disrupted in a way that we’ve never seen before.  Organizations have adapted in some pretty compelling ways.  Safety was made a top priority through changes to the physical workspace along with new protocols, practices, and…

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