by admin | Jun 1, 2017 | Leadership Development, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
It was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon and Claudia was irritated. She’d just left her weekly product development meeting, and despite genuine effort, she still had no idea where her team was going. It didn’t matter how many questions she asked, or how many concrete...
by admin | May 18, 2017 | Diversity in Workforce, Employee Engagement, Managing Difficult Employees
Emmanuelle looks around the room at the sales team. She’s new at the company and still learning about the relationship dynamics between her coworkers. Tensions are running high as it was just announced that the team didn’t make their sales goal for the second month in...
by admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Diversity in Workforce, Management Tips
I’ve been a runner my whole life, so I had a lot to learn when my daughter declared she wanted to play volleyball for the local league. It only took a few months of watching practices to get my mind in the game and notice many parallels to work teams. When you look at...
by admin | Feb 12, 2015 | Employee Engagement, Freelance Workforce, Future of Work, Management Tips, Managing Difficult Employees
The US freelance workforce is currently 53 million strong, and growing fast. In fact, right now freelancers make up 34% of our national workforce. Sarah Harowitz, executive director of Freelancers Union says, “This is an economic shift on par with the industrial...
by admin | Jan 29, 2015 | Diversity in Workforce, Future of Work
Until 2004, The Boston Red Sox had not won a World Series since trading Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1918. Then they won the World Series again in 2007. After 86 years of losing, they finally upped their game. But they have more than spring training to thank...
