by Jason Lauritsen | Jan 27, 2022 | Management
Few things have a more powerful effect on employee engagement and performance than trust. Hopefully, I don’t have to convince you of the importance trust at work. We have thirty or forty years’ worth of research to demonstrate its importance (examples: here,...
by Jason Lauritsen | Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
The honeymoon is over. That’s actually both a terrible and perfect way to describe where we are right now. The past six months haven’t felt anything like a honeymoon, but they may end up feeling that way in hindsight someday. When everything changed in the spring, we...
by Jason Lauritsen | Aug 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
I thought I was doing pretty well. When our lives (and my business) got turned upside down in March, I hunkered down. I’ve been through some tough times before, so I knew that I could survive whatever was to come. My wife and I figured out the “school from home” mess...
by Jason Lauritsen | Aug 21, 2020 | Workplace
A lot has changed over the past several months at work. This virus showed up and lit the status quo on fire. A majority of office workers now work from home. And we’ve been scrambling ever since. The most intense disruption has been felt in jobs and work that once...
by Jason Lauritsen | Jul 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
When I feel overwhelmed or stressed, my go-to strategy to find my way back to feeling calm and centered is gratitude. That allure of comfort is powerful. But that path leads nowhere. The old normal is gone. And good riddance. We can do better. As I write this today,...
