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Caring for your mental health is essential to overall well-being, and it requires a balance of self-care practices and lifestyle habits to maintain. Self-care can feel mundane and unattainable, especially for high-achievers, but stick with me! The MIND Fundamentals is an approach that I developed, focusing on seven key evidenced-based areas for optimizing mental health: Movement, […]

How engaged are your coworkers and employees? If your response is “I’m not sure,” you have a problem that needs to be addressed. And if you know engagement has been a struggle for your team, then settle in! And if you know engagement has been a struggle for your team, then settle in! Highly engaged […]

In 2021, the global consulting firm Accenture made headlines by deploying 60,000 VR Oculus headsets to its employees worldwide. While the primary purpose of the headsets is to enable immersive training experiences, they are also being used to facilitate virtual team-building activities, such as virtual escape rooms and virtual team challenges. Employee engagement activities like […]

Have you ever seen the movie “Up in the Air”? In the film, George Clooney’s character, Ryan Bingham, is a corporate downsizing expert (a.k.a the person hired by HR to fire people) who travels around the country firing people. As he explains in one scene, “The slower we move, the faster we die. Make no […]

Remember the scene in ‘Ocean’s 11’ where Danny Ocean recruits his team of expert criminals by appealing to their unique skills and motivations? When you understand what drives your team members, recognize their contributions, and provide opportunities for growth and development, you can inspire them to be more engaged, productive, and committed to your organization’s […]

Among the LinkedIn posts you’re likely to come across is the one about workplace communications impacting the dynamics between managers and employees. One such situation is the highly-controversial engineer who got laid off on vacation and only learned about this when her boss sent her a message on—surprise—LinkedIn. Shortly after this revelation, the organization’s employee […]

When the pandemic lockdowns temporarily shut down office spaces across the globe, every organization scrambled to find ways to still conduct work collaborations amidst the two-year health crisis. This event disrupted how workplace communication is being carried out between employees, management, and stakeholders. Who can forget the first-day frustrations when the management suggested that everyone […]

Imagine being the top-performing member of the sales team in your office. You’ve got it all together, hitting top numbers every month, so your manager promotes you to lead the marketing unit. But as soon as you enter the conference room to conduct an initial meeting, you realize that your sales tactics for communication aren’t […]

In case you need some reminding, a typical scene that demonstrates workplace communication so normalized it made repeated references in Hollywood movies USED to look like this: Two office girls huddled in a cubicle to hear the juiciest updates from a colleague seated in front of a computer monitor. Enter the supervisor five minutes into […]

As businesses continue to recognize the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workplace, Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has become an essential component of organizational success. After all, it is widely known to boost employee performance, morale, and productivity, not to mention that it’s a legal requirement for many organizations worldwide. From small oversights to […]