Acting Your Age: The Impact Of The Pandemic By Generation
COVID-19 has impacted almost everyone on the planet; that is as incredible as it is irrefutable. Few shared experiences are so truly universal in nature. But it’s also true that how the pandemic affected us varies tremendously. On a national level, the decisions of state actors and individual citizens have had hugely different results in both how […]
Putting Well-Being First
When the Pain Isn’t Worth the Gain: Putting Well-Being First There was nothing normal about the 2020 Olympics. First of all, it wasn’t in 2020 — postponed, like so much of life last year, due to the coronavirus. Ultimately, we saw a version that reflected much of the pandemic-based transformation we’ve seen elsewhere – far […]
The Future Of Remote Work
Are People Really Going Back to Work? Sort of – Understanding the Future of Remote Work. As the world has begun to open up, thanks to rising vaccinations and falling Covid rates – in most places – one thing seems clear. We’re not going back to normal, or back to 2019, or “back” to anything […]
How To Lose Control – Managing The Environment Instead Of Controlling The Situation
For most of us, when we recount a stressful situation, we emphasise the things that created an emotional response. We’ll not just talk through the substantive areas of a negative work assessment; we’ll mention how it was in the middle of the day, wrecking our focus for the rest of the afternoon. We don’t just […]
Our Carelessness Is Creating A Crisis: Caregiving Polices In The Workplace
A lot of 2020 was marked with uncertainty, from the mundane (will stores ever stock paper towels again?) to the momentous (when will there be a vaccine?). However, there were many vulnerabilities in our society that we knew already, that have played out in bright relief during COVID-19. The pandemic highlighted the disparate availability of […]
Improve Your Organisation
Would You Apply for Your Current Job? Improve Your Organisation, for Yourself. There is no shortage of articles, blogs, surveys and talks about how to improve your organisation. They all make arguments for why you should make such improvements – to attract more millennials, accelerate digitalisation, compete in a global environment. . .and dozens of […]
I Want To Improve The World Of Work. Yes, Really.
Over the years, I’ve returned a few times to the text of Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech. It’s pretty well known but if you’ve never read it, I’d recommend it. There’s a lot in there (though it’s not very long) and I always find I see something different in there each time I read it, […]
Understanding Others: Empathy in the Workplace
Most of us like to believe that we’re fairly empathetic, in the more casual sense of the word, at least. We all want to think that we can understand, even feel, emotions of others, especially when they are vulnerable or in need. And in our personal relationships most of us feel it vital to […]
We’ve Lived a Year Defined by Caution. It’s More Important Than Ever to Take Chances.
The last twelve months have hardly been like any other, for so many reasons. And it’s logical to focus on the big changes in our lives that are directly related to the pandemic. But we also are all dealing with the usual major life events, albeit under such strange circumstances. People are still graduating from […]
Part Two: From Daydream to Day Job: How People are Turning Side Interests into New Careers
In my last post, I discussed the ways in which people are discovering that work doesn’t have to look the way we thought it did. There are people working from home that could never imagine operating outside of an office environment. As business travel came to a screeching halt, the most tech-phobic became videoconference frequent flyers. […]