by Christi Barrett | Performance
You’re probably hearing the term “agile” more frequently. “Agile” is more than the new buzzword of the day when describing organizations and teams. It can be a transformational way of looking at your organization and its processes, teams...
by Christi Barrett | Engagement, Performance
“People with the right talent for their jobs, and long tenures in them, outperform colleagues dramatically – and their contributions skyrocket when they are also engaged.” So says James Harder in HBR’s Engage Your Long-Time Employees to Improve...
by Lance Satterthwaite | Performance, Supervision, Trust
When most people hear the word engagement, they picture a young couple who just made a commitment. They love and trust each other and promise to help make each other the best version of themselves. Employee engagement is the same – well close, anyway. Employee...
by Christi Barrett | Performance
I love my FitBit. This tool keeps track of my steps, and though I have the simplest model (no heart rate or sleep monitoring for me!), I find it gives me the kick in the pants I need to keep moving. So how could that be bad? It’s all fine until I leave my Fitbit...
by Christi Barrett | Performance, Wellness
Recently I found out I have a disease. It’s Hurry Sickness. That was abundantly clear when I read the title of this article, but could only skim it, since I was too busy to give it a thorough read at the time. Having finally (quickly) read the article, I feel...
by Christi Barrett | Learning, Performance
Balls get dropped. Mistakes are made. These things happen, and we find ourselves putting out fires and moving on…sometimes to the next fire. The funny thing about problems is that we all know it’s what we do about them that really matters. Yet we rarely...
