by Jason Lauritsen | Jun 18, 2021 | Leadership, Management, 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 | Leadership, 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 | 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 | 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 11, 2021 | Leadership
Well, we made it. We’ve turned the page from 2020. After last year, surviving the year feels like a milestone to celebrate. We certainly toasted the end of the year at our house. Now a new year begins with at least the promise that the end of this pandemic-fueled era...
by Jason Lauritsen | Oct 26, 2020 | Leadership
Regardless of when this pandemic ends (which feels like never to me right now), the way we work will never go back to how it was before. Sure, offices will open and some people will return to their cubicles, but many won’t. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about...
