If you’re a manager flirting with AI’s seductive promise: faster drafts, smoother prose, less emotional strain, you might be tempted. But pause first. Yes, AI can help. It also creates risks that many managers haven’t thought through. Continue reading Should Managers Use AI to Write Performance Reviews?
When managers don’t handle problems but complain about one employee to another, our trust erodes. We don’t want our managers to talk to us about our coworkers. We expect our managers to have difficult conversations with those who need them. To set and uphold standards. To name what isn’t working. To offer support and correction.
That’s leadership.
Continue reading Hey Boss, It’s You
Every workplace has at least one employee who quietly keeps thing from falling apart. These employees find the good in each manager. They patch over awkward processes with time, emotional energy and problem-solving. They translate confusion into action. They make dysfunction workable.
Until one day they don’t.
Continue reading I’m Done: When the Employees Who Keep Things From Falling Apart Call It Quits
If your workplace resembles a ghost town on Fridays, you’re not alone. White-collar professionals, particularly those allowed to work remotely, increasingly start their weekends early. One recent analysis found that remote and hybrid workers shift hours earlier in the week, hollowing out Fridays. Continue reading Skipping Out on Fridays
You work for a manager who keeps his employees divided, rattled, and demoralized so no one pushes back. Unfortunately, because Brad delivers bottom-line results, your senior leaders have situational blindness. They see the numbers, not the wreckage.
Here’s how to protect yourself, regain your footing and stay effective.
Continue reading Tactics for Dealing with Toxic Leadership
you can’t let your focus get hijacked and expect to feel successful. Reclaiming control isn’t about hustling harder—it’s about refusing to let every ping dictate your day. When your day becomes one long loop of: start task → ping → approval → “quick question” → begin again, you feel wiped out. No one thrives in a job that forces a full focus reboot every few minutes. Continue reading The Managerial Promotion Underbelly: Side Order of Chaos
Employee roomba: everyone performs work & looks slammed: syncing, circling back, touching base, aligning priorities, and actioning next steps. The problem? None of these verbs produced anything tangible. Meetings multiplied like rabbits while projects stayed in limbo. Like bouncing in place for your smartwatch. Continue reading The Roomba School of Management: When Everyone Looks Slammed but Nothing Gets Done
You speak for thousands in your sweatpants-longing rebellion. A lot of employees feel trapped in the twilight zone of “optional” events that somehow determine whether they’re “team players.” The problem isn’t that employers want connection—it’s that they confuse forced fun with real bonding. Spoiler alert: nothing makes adults crankier than being told to clap along when they’d rather be home. Continue reading Team Building Pain: Do I really have to trust-fall on Friday night?
the slow breakdown of employees stretched too thin and too fearful of economic uncertainty to leave their jobs. 4 steps you can take; 5 steps employers can take. Continue reading Quiet Cracking
Question: We thought we’d hit the jackpot when we hired “Sonali.” She possessed all the right skills, and her interview … Continue reading The Heroine with a Headcount: Handling the Disruption Diva