by Jason Lauritsen | Oct 4, 2019 | Workplace
Over the past few years, it is becoming more common and popular to talk about being human at work. We talk about designing work to work for humans. We invite people to bring their “whole selves” to work. There are even disciplines like wellbeing that are focused on...
by Jason Lauritsen | Sep 20, 2019 | Leadership
The longer I am immersed in the work of employee engagement, the clearer it is to me that getting it right as a manager is simple and hard. That may sound contradictory, but it’s not. Engaging employees isn’t all that complicated. It starts with forming and...
by Jason Lauritsen | Sep 5, 2019 | Engagement
A wise friend is fond of saying, “If only people would conform to our expectations of them.” It’s her way of reminding us (and probably herself) that much of the drama that exists in our lives with other people starts with us. And that if we’d accept people for who...
by Jason Lauritsen | Nov 2, 2018 | Relationships
Note: I’m writing a note of gratitude on the blog each day in November leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. My hope is that these posts will inspire you to do the same. Write an email, Facebook post, or a text to tell people they have made an impact on you....
by Jason Lauritsen | Oct 12, 2016 | Performance, Workplace
One of the things I am most proud of from my corporate HR tour of duty happened during my last stop as an HR executive about six years ago. Before it was trendy to do so, we lead a process to kill the traditional annual performance management appraisal. I won’t...
