How do you get through to someone whose guard is always up? How do you deal with someone whom you disagree with or have a conflict with? What about those who hurt you? These are questions everyone needs to deal…
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Do we really need an adaptable reward and recognition system? (Part 2)
In my previous post, “Do we really need an adaptable reward and recognition system? (Part 1)?“, we explored the differences in motivation and the form factors of the rewards between the five generations in the workplace today. Now, I want…
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Do you know what the most precious gift to give someone is?
Do you know that the most precious gift we can give someone is our attention? Why? Because our attention is our time, and our time is our life. We are never going to get it back, and that’s why it…
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Wishing participants would turn their cameras on. Is that a reflection on them or on you? (Part 2)
Last time, in “Wishing participants would turn their cameras on. Is that a reflection on them or on you? (Part 1)”, we talked about us humans having various modes of learning, information intake and processing. Switching cameras on is only…
Do we really need an adaptable reward and recognition system? (Part 1)
Leadership Memo 2021-10 Reward and recognition systems should be adaptable and agile. They need to take contexts into consideration. Why? Because there are up to five generations in the workplace today. We all want the same thing: to be respected,…
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Wishing participants would turn their cameras on. Is that a reflection on them or on you? (Part 1)
“In the current environment where meetings, workshops and training courses tend to be online, we're always looking at ways to make the online experience more effective. There's a simple step to increase effectiveness. It's not complicated, it's not difficult, all…
What is a leader to do in times like these?
There are many discussions and debates about whether knowledge workers should go back to the office. Some advocates of remote work framed the issue in terms of racial justice and equity. “When geographical barriers are removed, location bias and relocation…
Managers and executives don’t seem to like the idea of remote working. Why?
In the post “Should knowledge workers go back to the office or should we not?”, we examined some resistance to changing the way we work. Today, I want to dive deeper into why the idea of working remotely can be…
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Empathy, why do we need it? Why is it important?
We hear a lot about the need for empathy these days, especially when the global pandemic is still going on after 18 months. So why do we need empathy? Why is it important? It is important because it meets two…
Why do we work the way we do, reimagining how work can be like (Part 2)
Leadership Memo 2021-9 In the last Leadership Memo, I challenged us to reassess why we work the way we do, and reimagine what work can look like. I mentioned that after factories became commonplace, people put in place and formalised…
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