by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 9, 2021 | Change, Decisions, Management, Post-Pandemic, Workplace
What do you do if your organization has decided that everyone is coming back to the office and your people don’t want to come? And what if you feel the same way? One of the most challenging times to manage is when you get stuck between a company decision (that...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jun 25, 2021 | Culture, Decisions, Leadership, Management, Post-Pandemic, Workplace
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...
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by Jason Lauritsen | May 27, 2021 | Communication, Culture, Decisions, Post-Pandemic, Relationships, Video, Well-being
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...
by Jason Lauritsen | Apr 30, 2021 | Decisions, Employee Experience, Leadership, Management, Workplace
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...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 30, 2012 | Decisions
Last night, my son was watching a TV show where the storyline apparently included a genie being released from a lamp to grant three wishes. After a few minutes, he asked me, “What would you do if you were granted three wishes? What would you wish for?”...
by Jason Lauritsen | Sep 2, 2010 | Decisions, Reality TV, Workplace
I’m a fan of reality TV. Think of me what you will, but I find many reality shows entertaining and fascinating for a variety of reasons. So, I tend to sample a lot of different shows to see what they are about. Recently I stumbled upon...
