As we start to think about the toll that employee turnover and “Quiet Quitting” is taking on our businesses today, it may be best to understand why our organizations may have problems with attrition….
How have you handled the last 18 months in your business? It’s been a rocky road for most COOs that we talk with. Thinking the crisis will end soon and we can get back…
I love Adam Grant‘s tiny, but powerful LinkedIn post below that flips our thoughts on Impostor Syndrome around. “If you doubt yourself, shouldn’t you also doubt your judgment of yourself?” I have labored long and…
I’ve recently been introduced to Brainswarming (and no, it’s not a typo). Being someone who uses Brainstorming a lot with my own work, curiosity got the better of me as I started looking into…
Have you ever thought that our meetings are broken? Meetings are definitely a time-suck if they haven’t been crisply run with a defined demarcation of time and needs. Inefficient and ineffective meetings have the…
Have you ever wondered what could happen in an instant if the person you depended on to keep you both upright let go of your hand? This is brought back to us, especially during…
Gallup’s article on Setting the Tone for Workplace Culture reminded me of three great things that happened at one of my former employers, HGA Architects and Engineers. Accessible and Respectful Leadership.The leadership team was always accessible to every…
One of my favorite topics to teach is psychological safety. And yet, it is one of the least favorite things I have experienced in my business career – or rather I’ve experienced the absence…
We’re at a difficult place when it comes to employee retention right now. At the COO Forum, we’ve been tracking the problems COOs are having in this area. More than any other topic, the two…
I once worked at a company that had many tiers of employees. There were people who were C-Suite executives, principals, SVPs, VPs, senior associates, and lots of us worker-bees. But there was one person…
