The real employee lifecycle
You're open to work and your future employer is out there trying to attract talent! Understand the employee lifecycle from the employee's perspective with this side-by-side breakdown.
How to give human-centered feedback
Why treat employees like children who've broken the rules? There's a better way to give feedback.
How to recognize your team year-round
82% of employees are happier when recognized at work
Now that employee appreciation day is done, I'm sharing four ways to create a culture of recognition for your team all year long.
So you need a change. What next?
Four questions to ask yourself to uncover your purpose and guide you toward your next career move.
Recognizing when you need a change
How to recognize the signs from your body, mind, and heart screaming at you that it's time to make a change (be that quitting your job or otherwise). Are you ready to tune in and trust yourself?
The problem with DEI solutions based on assumptions
Let's stop assuming someone's identify and preferred communities based on check boxes. Let's also stop giving already high-performing Black employees extra work so they can demonstrate their value enough to be promoted or compensated appropriately.
Claim your time and calendar
Do you feel like you spend your days reacting to other people's needs? Wish you could gain some control over your workday? I've got you. That's right, we're talking about boundaries.
What women want at work
We keep the peace because we want peace. We want to be left alone to do our jobs without the harassment, without the micro-aggressions, without the condescension, without the belittlement from the f**king patriarchy.
Grow your network like a spy
Recruiting spies is a lot like finding a spouse, it turns out.
How To Make Changes That Will Stick
We humans are an ambitious bunch who really struggle with making change. The idea of committing to a few things to Change Your Life, starting tomorrow. That's intoxicating. And incredibly hard.
This is my approach to making changes that stick, starting with setting an intention.
Three Strategies to Cope (Better) with Toxic Managers
76% of workers say they've had or currently have a toxic boss. I've been there, too. If this is your current reality, I imagine one a few scenarios may apply to your day-to-day.
An HR Therapy Session for Managers and the People (Operators) Who Love Them
This week in making work suck less, I got to speak with Hebba Youssef, Ayanna E. Jackson ~ Career Coach and Ciara O'Sullivan (she/her) in an episode of HR Therapy. Our conversation centered around managers: the good, the bad, and the intolerable. Here are some of my key takeaways.
So, work still sucks?
When folks first learned my employee experience strategy was simply to make work suck less, some were all in. And, others were confused. "Won't that mean that work still sucks?"
In a word, yes. Work still sucks.
How my company and team supported me through pregnancy, loss, and recovery.
Three weeks ago, we lost our baby at nearly 22 weeks pregnant. This article is partly my attempt at processing this tragedy, and partly to share with organizations the importance of generous and frustration-free benefits and compassionate leaders. I frankly cannot imagine going through this without the support of both.
Lessons in work-life balance from the war zone: If no one is dead or dying, go home.
If you work in an office, a retail store, a coffee shop, at home--this probably seems like a dramatic bit of work-life balance advice. It may resonate more with those of you who work in more precarious settings (e.g., emergency services, military). For me, it became my personal mantra during a one-year stint in Afghanistan. Where do you draw the line between routine, urgent, and emergency when life and death scenarios were common and days could easily run 18-20 hours, 7 days a week?
Boost Retention with Intention: 3 Tips for Managers to Retain Top Talent
Managers: Your best team member just gave you their two week's notice. What would say or do to keep them?
Leaving the CIA behind and finding my super power in employee experience
Seven years ago I opened my retirement calculator, saw that I could retire with full government benefits in 20 years, and decided absolutely not. I was 29 years old and felt down to my bones that I absolutely could not - would not - spend the next two decades living like that.