5 Workplace Trends That Defined 2024 (and How to Navigate What’s Next)
As 2024 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on the trends that shaped the workplace this year, from AI-assisted collaboration to purpose-driven work. Here, we break down the 5 biggest trends and share actionable strategies to help your organization adapt, thrive, and stay ahead in 2025.
Using Comparative Advantage to Delegate Like a Boss*
Discover how busy leaders can master the art of delegation using comparative advantage to empower their teams, boost efficiency, and focus on the work that truly matters.
Leadership Beyond Titles
Leadership isn’t (just) about a title – it’s also about how you show up and influence others toward shared goals. Whether you’re in a formal leadership role or leading from within your team, your behaviors and actions make the greatest impact. In this post, we explore the key traits of effective leaders and share actionable steps to build your leadership presence, regardless of your position.
Succession Planning Simplified
Discover a step-by-step guide to succession planning that ensures leadership continuity, fosters team growth, and aligns with your organization’s future goals. Practical tips and real-world examples inside.
Holding Space After Big Events: The Empathetic Manager’s Guide
The day after an election (or any other important, emotional, or monumentous) day in the community can be a tough day to be a manager. Here, we offer six tips on how to get through it with empathy and your humanity and sanity in tact.
How Leadership & Development Experts Boost Employee Engagement
The secret to fantastic employee engagement isn’t standing desks or pizza Fridays. It’s investment in leaders and teams.
The Power of Playfulness in Leadership Coaching
Incorporating playfulness into leadership coaching isn’t about diminishing the importance of leadership. Instead, it’s about amplifying a leader’s capacity to connect, grow, and thrive in ways that feel natural and fun.
Avoid the Cost of Conflict Debt
While most of us are trained from an early age to be relatively conflict averse, this tendency can have enormous consequences in the workplace! Read on for four tried and true tips to foster the right kind of conflict in your workplace.
The Educator’s Role in the Work of Inclusion
While we want to believe that schools are automatically set up to be inclusive of students of all abilities, the reality is that disability bias creeps up in our classrooms all the time. Acknowledging this reality is a first step to combating it. Read on for more tips!
Is Your Inner Critic Taking Up Too Much Brainspace?
Beliefs about ourselves operate below the surface, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have an outsized impact.
The Curious Leader’s Secret Weapon
The secret to being the most impactful version of yourself? It’s to wonder more about others.
5 Tips to Create a Connected Remote Workforce
With a current 12.7% of full-time employees working fully remotely, and 28.2% of them working in a hybrid model, it makes sense that creating a fantastic - and psychologically safe - workplace is key. Read on for ways to do it.
Thoughts on Navigating the Liminal State
The liminal state - that moment between a part of life that is clearly over and the next moment that has yet to start - can be truly challenging. Our thoughts on how to reframe this experience to make it feel a little less painful.
3 Simple Steps to Ensure Your Lesson Sticks
Our educator friends will recognize this one - the fastest, stickiest way to ensure the folks you coach or manage are growing is with this 3-step process borrowed from the classroom.