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 | 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...
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...