Posts in: workplace innovation

November 18, 2022 SHIFT

Are Your Employee Surveys Wasting Time and Energy?

Want to know how your team really feels about what's going on in the business? You're likely no stranger to employee engagement surveys... The unfortunate reality is that most leaders end up disappointed or confused when survey...

November 11, 2022 SHIFT

Our “Best Of” Leadership Resources Remix

It's crunch time. Everyone is feeling the weight of Q4 pressure – and some of us are already stressing about the new year ahead (which will be here before we know it). In order to bring some healing salve to the anxiety the...

October 28, 2022 SHIFT

Charting the Course for Connection and Community

"We have the power to make workplaces engines for mental health and well-being. Doing so will require organizations to rethink how they protect workers from harm, foster a sense of connection among workers, show them that they...

October 14, 2022 SHIFT

Remedy These Leadership Pain Points

Throw your old-school employee surveys out the window. More and more organizations are making poor decisions based on inaccurate, irrelevant, and biased employee engagement data. Worse yet, leaders are spending countless hours...

October 5, 2022 SHIFT

How AI Can Bridge the Human Experience Gap at Work

Data, data, data. All organizations have it, but few leaders know what to do with it – especially when it comes to using the data to drive decision-making. Employee engagement data has come a long way in the past few years, and...

September 30, 2022 SHIFT

Are Leaders Ready for the Path Ahead?

Since we are living through the greatest disruption to the workplace, why do we feel stuck between impossible decisions, no-win situations, and in an environment that lacks any forward momentum? Well, as Einstein said, "You...

September 16, 2022 SHIFT

Does Your Team Trust You?

So does your team trust you, company leaders, and peers? In our increasingly polarized society, workplaces are now held to a higher standard. Leaders are expected to address societal issues in meaningful ways. Creating a safe...

September 1, 2022 SHIFT

Harnessing Momentum at Work

We all crave momentum. It's the feeling of being on a roll – unstoppable. How do you create momentum? We asked some of our teammates to share how they think about momentum: "I think of how an object in motion stays in motion...

August 29, 2022 Joe Mechlinski

The Future of Work Starts With Questioning Everything

My high school (legendary) football coach, Roger Wrenn, would start every season the exact same way. At the first practice, he would say, "Hello everyone, my name is Roger Wrenn and I have been preparing my whole life to coach ...