Misfired

Despite the clumsy and misguided actions related to the federal chainsaw massacre, you can NEVER “unfire” someone.

All Cows Will Please Report to the Barn

Recently, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gave notice that all AMZN corporate staff were to be back in the barn working in January 2025. (Before anyone sends any inflammatory emails, we’ve used the Cows metaphor for better than 25 years and have gone to great lengths to be clear that we are NOT comparing people to […]

Tightening the Connection with Remotely Based Teammates

Remotely based workers certainly CAN become detached from their teams and their organization’s culture. But they don’t HAVE to be. Leaders play in big part in tightening the connection.

Success Lesson From Apple’s Leaders

by Bill Catlette 4/28/23 • memphis • (2 minutes) Jason Aten has a piece in the current issue of INC Magazine* profiling one attribute that is instrumental in Tim Cook’s considerable success for the last 12 years at Apple. Whether one is an Apple fanboy/girl, or not (I am), it’s hard not to appreciate the […]

See Ya! Saying Goodbye in the Workplace… It’s About How You Make Them Feel

by Bill Catlette 4/4/23 • Memphis (2-minute read) Firing people is hard, but let’s not try to make it easy. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Reasonable, mature people understand that from time to time, company managements get blindsided by pandemics, misjudge the economic windage, future prospects, and/or their ability to perform in a given set […]

Quiet Quitting – The Latest Thing (That’s Been Around Forever)

Maybe it’s the alliteration. The fact that it makes a catchy hashtag. Whatever it is, talk of #quietquitting just won’t seem to quit, quietly or otherwise. We’ve delayed our weighing in on it until some of the furor subsided, but the fact is that we (and many others) have been talking and writing about quiet […]

Labor Shortage? Or Appreciation Shortage? More than 17 Ways to Say Thank You

While almost every employer in the developed world is grappling with a labor shortage, one of the underlying causes is, in fact, an appreciation shortage.

Workforce 2022: What IS the New Normal?

By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden In a nation weary but not yet free of Covid there is growing consternation, largely in C-suites, over the perceived need to return to “normal”, to life as it used to be; to herd millions of now remotely domiciled (free-range) knowledge workers back into the corporate coop, be it […]

How Managers Can Improve Remote Employee Engagement

With the seismic shift to remote work, Employee Engagement, which some organizations may have felt they were getting a handle on, has reemerged as a major challenge. A recent report shows that 71% of managers feel employee engagement has a direct impact on the overall success of an organization. With this number in mind, leaders […]

Making Hybrid Work

The hybrid workforce model is the future of the workplace. Let’s get it right. Here’s how.