Bring Your Human to Work (Part 2)

Bring Your Human to Work (Part 2)

Last week, we learned the first five approaches to making the workplace more human shared in the book Bring your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That’s Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World by Erica Keswin. Did you...
Bring Your Human to Work (Part 2)

Bring Your Human to Work (Part 1)

Erica Keswin’s book, Bring your Human to Work: 10 Surefire Ways to Design a Workplace That’s Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World, has some great advice for those of us involved in creating Great Places to Work. She writes that...
The #1 Way to Stay Motivated

The #1 Way to Stay Motivated

For years, I have taught that if you really want to keep yourself motivated, it is important to understand the difference between “have to, should and must” and “want to.” Since we were born, we have been programmed with what we “should do” to be accepted, what we...
What makes a leader “great”?

What makes a leader “great”?

“Greatness is that quality that is impossible to define with scientific precision but almost equally impossible to mistake once you see it. … It oozes out of great-souled people in rare but commonplace fashion and in that way draws everything in its orbit into the...
Leadership Lessons Learned On-the-Job

Leadership Lessons Learned On-the-Job

In 2017 and 2018 I was President of my church’s Council, the governing body of the organization. Within days of being installed as President, our minister announced that she was leaving, and instantly I was catapulted into a leadership role I was not expecting....