Office Talk

Are you fatigued, overwhelmed, burned out? Packing every available work-from-home minute with meetings and tasks? Feeling like you need a break? You're not alone.

Much of the COVID spurred "Great Resignation" and hiring drought has to do with how managers treat employees. The time to address any of your company's related issues is now. Here's how.

When we think workplace strain and fatigue, we tend to think first about workers – those in positions other than management. Gallup suggests that stress-relief can come from following guidance from this type of manager.

Do you have employees who leave vacation on the table, or work through it. According to Korn Ferry, get ready for that to change.

Over the past 16 to 18 months, it feels like shifts in our reality — professionally and personally — have been on steroids. Try these useful ways to manage through accelerated change.

According to Gallup's World Poll, during 2020, across the globe, employees experienced increased worry, sadness, and anger, with US and Canadian workers reporting the highest rates of daily stress.

Leaders, it's time to stop and take stock and consider the needs of the business and engage employees around how they're experiencing their workload.

Gallup research indicates that North America leads the world in employee engagement, and they say these three conditions are what drive it.

Trusting those we rely on is essential. Yet building trust in the workplace can be a challenge – a challenge that's amplified when people are separated by time and space.

Are your leaders and others in your company creating a safe and supportive workplace for employees who identify as LGBTQ?

COVID-19 sped up our need to adapt to new technology across all levels of the workforce. Are you and all your employees ready?

Employers may want people back in the office, but is it for the right reasons?

The Gallup organization says to create and sustain progress in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion space, leaders need a solid strategy that includes an aspirational vision, and the right metrics and processes.

To make meaningful progress, change must occur at two levels – the individual and the system.

Brand new research released by Seramount, provides a perspective on what corporate American has done to address racism, since the murder of George Floyd.

No matter who you are, or what your rank, you can be an agent for change by bringing people together to chart an equitable future.

If you’re stressing over returning to the physical work environment, here are a few ways you can ease yourself back in.

Leaders today face significant uncertainty. Change and complexity are a steady presence. Harvard Business Review suggests these six strategies to accelerate learning and navigate increasing complexity.

Could you be you overestimating how clearly conveyed your messages of appreciation are? Do you say thank you often enough?

In the face of unprecedented change, uncertainty, anxiety, and loss we surmounted challenges and found ways to survive and remain sane. What inspired us to keep going, to stay engaged?

The need for speed will likely stretch production capacity and could strain the workforce. Employee health, safety, emotional wellbeing and the potential for burnout, may require special consideration.

In the workplace, and all of life, the size and complexity of challenges are not factors that determine whether we flounder or thrive.

When will the US achieve gender parity? The World Economic Forum asked that question. The answer shocked me.

Korn Ferry reports hate crimes against Asians in the US increased by a stunning 150% in 2020. Generally, our workplaces are a microcosm of society. As such, this raises questions.

For decades, discussion of flexible work arrangements centered around hours and, perhaps, an occasional day working from home. But post-COVID, could some of that remain in place?

Diversity, equity and inclusion is not about “check the box” activities or talk of quotas. It is also not the exclusive work of HR or diversity officer.

A recent Korn Ferry article discusses the notion that remote work arrangements may make working longer more attractive to some older workers.

No DEI effort will be successful if you're not addressing this very real impediment to achieving equality.

Repeatedly mispronouncing someone's name is a micro-insult that may hurt more deeply than you think.

If you don’t know how the women in your organization are holding up, and you care, it’s time to ask.

When it comes to use of physical space, what dynamics do you see between cultural groups, inclusive of race, social class, ethnicity, physical ability, sexual orientation, gender, and even other aspects of diversity?

McKinsey reports between May 25th and the end of October, 32% of Fortune 1000 companies made public statements supporting racial justice. Is your company doing what it takes to generate real change?

Is your pace of progress sufficient to position your company for strong post-COVID recovery and long-term viability?

Today, many of us spend our workdays online, in one-on-one and group meetings. Here are some tips to help you make your presence known and have a positive impact, especially during large group meetings.

Whether you’re a frontline essential worker, homemaker, striving young professional, or seasoned executive, if you’re a parent with younger children, your life has changed dramatically during the pandemic. Here are a few coping strategies to help you manage.

According to Gallup, there’s a strong relationship between employee engagement and employee wellbeing – two drivers of performance, productivity and retention. Each – engagement and wellbeing – has a reciprocal and additive impact on the future state of the other.

Today, in our new paradigm, we work and engage from our diverse home environments where we also manage children, attend to elders, deal with sickness, death, loss, stopped up toilets and untold fears and worries.

Do the demographics of your company reflect those of your customer base? If your company is like most, the answer is, “No.’

Recent McKinsey research says the link between diversity on executive teams and financial outperformance is indisputably evident. Here's why you need to step up your DEI efforts.

Self-care is a necessity if you intend to be primed to bring your best to what you do every day. Here's an easy way to reset and refresh whenever needed.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ Five Stages of Grief provides a helpful framework for understanding our COVID-19-induced emotional roller-coaster. Here's how it might be playing out for you.

A McKinsey survey says across demographic groups and geographies, workers are struggling with mental health issues, work–life balance, concerns about workplace health and safety, an absence of connection and belonging, and worries about job security and career progression.

To wake up your awareness of the disparate impact of certain behaviors on people of color and white women, take a more objective look at the dynamics that occur during meetings, in public spaces, even in personal relationships. Here's how.

In his book, "Microaggressions in Everyday Life," Derald Wing Sue teaches us about our impact, whether intended or not, through three types of microaggressions. Micro-insults. Micro-assaults. Micro-invalidations. Here's what they each mean.

Have you ever shared how you’re feeling about a situation and the person with whom you’re speaking responds with, “Yeah, but…”?

Through forced isolation, we live and work in our own bubbles. Today, I’m inviting you to reach out of your bubble and respectfully pierce the bubble that surrounds colleagues, especially those with whom you’ve had limited contact.

In any context in which we find ourselves, bias and prejudice are harmful. Often, we aren’t even conscious of the message that undergirds our statement, question, or nonverbal behavior.

I recently went to the hardware store in which another shopper – a white man – was searching through a neighboring rack. My internal, stereotypes reflexively kicked in. I thought, “He seems unfriendly, maybe even foe.” But then...

Leaders have the power to make significant, measurable strides towards a more just and fair world through moment-to-moment decisions and actions. Here’s a perspective to consider.

If you went to an office or another workplace every day, one of the things you may have taken for granted is the opportunity to switch gears.

You may have noticed a proliferation of group sing-alongs and online concerts by people who are under strict stay at home orders all over the world. There's a very good reason why.