Making Hybrid Work

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

Childcare = Infrastructure

As much as businesses depend upon electricity, reliable digital signal, mail, roads, bridges, and airports to do our thing, we also rely on the availability of talented labor in sufficient quantity to do whatever it is we do. For too long, much of our workforce has seen its availability tightly constrained by reliance on a […]

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 note, when she pointed to the US flag and sang, with emphasizing cadence, “that our flag.was.still.there.” But the internet is also abuzz this morning with […]

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 don’t exactly have to have read that post to benefit from this one. But why wouldn’t you? Read it here. Here’s the rest of our […]

Making Working from Anywhere Work

Six specific ideas to lead remote or hybrid teams.

Workplace Now…Workplace Next

Ahh, how we long for the blissful days of mid-March, 2020, when we were terrified that this whole pandemic thing could go on for weeks, maybe even months, before we snapped back to the old normal we used to complain about. If anyone had accurately predicted in March what things would look like in December, […]

Let Her Finish!

Let Her Finish! by Bill Catlette 10.08.20 • memphis Cutting someone off in mid-sentence is not far removed from cutting them off in traffic and forcing hard braking, evasive action, and perhaps hand gestures on their part. Yet, many of us, mostly guys it seems, are too well-practiced at interrupting people, especially women in mid-sentence […]

Promote Team Building by Improving the Workplace

by K. Baker With more companies struggling to stay profitable, employers have increased their efforts to build stronger teams. While a capable team isn’t made overnight, it can be created with specific changes designed to improve workers’ job satisfaction and productivity. Besides using team-building exercises, here are some ways to help your employees work more […]

Unjobbed

Bill Catlette   8/7/20 • memphis Bored, Scared, Angry  In 2+ decades as a coach and advisor to business leaders, the very worst workplace situations I’ve encountered have almost always been those punctuated by boredom and bad leadership, usually in tandem. That stands to reason as most often, bad leaders concern themselves more with accumulating […]

Leaders… Dancing in the Dark?

by Bill Catlette memphis • 7/26/20 In his 1984 Grammy Award winning song, Dancing in the Dark, a slightly randy Bruce Springsteen bemoans a grinding, dreary daily existence without much well, uh, action.  A glance at the lyrics comes uncomfortably close to what a lot of leaders are feeling of late. But let’s start with […]