For our own company, as well as our clients, Pride month gives us an opportunity to reflect on our leadership and whether we are doing enough to support our LGBTQ employees, colleagues, and clients.
Getting Intentional About Inclusion at Work
As a leader, it’s your job to get results with a team; to get the best from them and to make sure you have the best people from the start. To do that well, you have to think about inclusion, equity, accessibility, diversity, and the role they play in your team or organization. If you’re not, then you’re not doing your job as a leader.
The Challenges Faced by Change Agents
The Benefits Of Having An Offsite
You probably know someone who has recently been on an “offsite” with their team or company; you might actually know a lot of someones who have. In recent years, we’ve seen an increase in the attention and dollars organizations are willing to spend on building a company culture in the right way, and offsites have become a popular way to help do just that.
How To Build A Culture Of Accountability
Accountability is one of the biggest stressors we see leaders struggling with, from first-time managers to CEOs. Being a leader means getting results through other people, so how do you make sure your people are responsible and held accountable for their results, so you can be accountable for yours?
Handling Conflict At Work
“Happy Work” is in our name, and we’ll still be some of the first people to tell you that your career doesn’t always come up roses. Work isn’t happy every day, and that’s OK! Sometimes it’s smelly, rotten, exhausting, boring, and difficult (and not in the fun-challenging kind of way). Conflict at work can be a big part of the stink.
How To Cut Costs Without Damaging Your Culture
Companies sometimes have to make difficult business decisions. One of my clients is a company like that. They recently needed to make major expense cuts, in the range of half a billion dollars, and this meant dozens of policy changes and lots of changes to the way that the company’s procurement policy and vendor management works. These large, systematic cuts are a big deal and have a real impact on the strength of the company, its ability to invest and compete in the future, and so they should be easy to explain.
