Mastering Collaboration

Companies increasingly realize they cannot avoid agility during disruption and change. In the process, they overlook their biggest lever: agile employee development. Countless articles, books, podcasts, videos, blogs and tired faces: the topic of agility has been omnipresent in the business world for quite some time now. And rightly so: although around half of all […]

No discussion on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is complete without addressing one of the most defining personality differences: introversion and extroversion. Between a third and half the population are introverts. Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung first introduced the term in his influential work, Personality Types, in 1921. Today, psychologists largely consider introversion and extroversion among the […]

You’ve been looking forward to this for a long time: Having your entire team in person (!) gathered in one place. How do you make the most of people’s time together? Remote and hybrid work arrangements have become a central aspect of many workplaces. Certainly, some organizations are eager to have everyone back in the […]

Stop treating meetings as a necessary evil.

Interruptions derail your workday – 23 minutes at a time. Twenty-three minutes. That’s how long it takes on average to regain your focus after an interruption. The finding, which is based on a study conducted at the University of California, Irvine, is not a trivial matter. It has huge implications for productivity – and your […]

Making location-flexible work arrangements a success requires thoughtful planning and organization.  It may sound like the perfect “Goldilocks” solution to post-pandemic office work: Have people come to the office on some days and let them work from home on others. Enable workers to have quiet focus time at home but not too much so they […]

Enthusiasm is catching. Use it to motivate teams to high performance. Coordinating teams to focus on a goal follows the same general processes that setting and executing personal goals follow: Aim high.   Set measurable goals with intermittent milestones.   Focus on consistently achieving the small steps it takes to accomplish something big.   Big goals inspire, but […]