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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
Making Hybrid Work
The hybrid workforce model is the future of the workplace. Let’s get it right. Here’s how.
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Notorious PSG - Podium Sanitizer Guy Rocks Inauguration Stage
The inauguration ceremony for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris produced more than a few goosebump moments for this presidential history buff, not the least of which was Lady Gaga’s high…
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Part 2 - Making Working from Anywhere Work
On January 11, 2021, we published a list of six specific ideas we’ve learned from leaders who are having real success engaging and leading their remote and hybrid teams. You…