Love ’em or hate ’em, News Year’s Resolutions (or NYR’s as I’ll call them here) are a hot topic the first week of every year. Some people find them too artificial, feeling that it’s not what you do on January 1st, but what you do all year round. Some people…

Picture this. A team of 15 people has a weekly project meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to share updates, exchange ideas, collaborate, and make decisions. The team has 3 “pockets” of people. Pocket 1: Five people who go to the main office and live close enough to make…

I was quickly falling apart, and my legs felt as if someone had poured cement inside them. My joints exploded with every step. What was this… water dripping from my eyes? Was I… crying?? My head throbbed. I’d gone out way too fast, something every runner knows you shouldn’t do…

Let me tell you a story. It’s one that I’m not proud of but if it hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have learned a very valuable lesson. Spoiler alert: you may never build roadmaps the same way again. I’d been on the job for two months. I was brought in to…

Meetings are the lifeblood of many organizations. Want to know the health of your organization? Examine your meetings. Conducting surveys and interviewing staff members are tactics that might give you some smoke signals. But, if you want to find the fires, take a hard look at your meetings. While many…

I walked into the meeting and spotted an open seat. It was just about to begin. I didn’t recognize anyone, but that wasn’t a surprise. The subject line of the meeting read “Project Kickoff” and I hadn’t recognized the names in the invite. I nodded a polite hello to the…

It wasn’t until the 60 seconds of breaktime shadow boxing to the Rocky theme that I realized how different this was from all the other remote workshops I’d led in the past. People’s kids, pets and roommates were shadow boxing on camera. Someone’s wife walked in on him shadow boxing…

*This article may be used as a reference tool and does not necessarily need to be read from start to finish. Some points are repeated throughout different sections intentionally. Given the current situation around the globe, you may be reading many articles about remote working. Many of them have great…