by Jason Lauritsen | Dec 5, 2024 | Leadership, Performance, Workplace
Few things trigger more angst for less payoff than the annual performance review process. Just the thought of it is enough to send a lot of people into panic mode–employees, managers, and HR alike. I’m not suggesting that the review process is entirely without merit,...
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...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jun 18, 2021 | Leadership, Management, Well-being, Wellbeing, Workplace
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...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jun 4, 2021 | Communication, Leadership, Love, Management, Relationships, Workplace
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...
by Jason Lauritsen | May 14, 2021 | Communication, Cultivation Mindset, Leadership, Management, Relationships, Workplace
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...
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...
