The Blindspot in Employee Engagement

A couple years ago, as my wife and I were returning home from an employee engagement conference where I had spoken, she said something to me that I didn’t fully understand at the time. I remember it sounding something like this. “The content here was good,...
Wellness 2.0

Wellness 2.0

About eight years ago, I joined an organization that was pretty serious about workplace wellness. Since the wellness team rolled up to me as the HR leader, I got pretty serious about learning what it was all about quickly. Most of the focus, I learned, was on...

Making the Invisible Visible with ONA

Well over a decade ago, I walked into a session at a conference in Tucson, Arizona. I wasn’t sure exactly what the session was going to be about, but it sounded interesting. The presenter was a professor at the University of Virginia named Rob Cross. Rarely have...
Does Your Company Discourage Vacations?

Does Your Company Discourage Vacations?

A few weeks ago, I had an interesting chat with my Lyft driver on the way to the airport in San Francisco. He was a career business development professional who uses Lyft to supplement his income. Our conversation turned to company culture and work experience...

Relationships and Accountability

If you’ve been following my work over the past couple of years, you know that I’ve been evangelizing the message that “work is a relationship, not a contract.” Because employees experience work this way, work and the workplace should be designed around the same...
Jason Lauritsen