Are you also dealing with direct reports who are asking for promotions but aren’t showing that they are capable of assuming new responsibilities? That's the situation that several of my clients find themselves in. These senior leaders express frustrations that their...

Do these work requests sound familiar? “Please take our employee survey.” “What’s your experience as a member of this team? “Answer these 5 anonymous questions.” “Please complete my 360 so I can become better in my role and as a human.” Wherever you turn these days,...

“Managers are overseeing more people as companies large and small gut layers of middle managers in the name of cutting bloat and creating nimbler yet larger teams…. According to data from research and advisory firm Gartner, there was one manager for every five...

Want to feel better about your work, your relationships with others and your life? Broaden your perspective to think less about time and more about influence. In other words, stop obsessing about how you're spending your time and accounting for it. Instead, start...

How’s your summer going? In early August, I experienced a painful stretch – sitting almost 20  hours over three days in a generic mid-size hotel meeting room for a traditional educational conference. Traditional in that all of the speakers talked at us – two even read...

August. It’s the traditional back-to-school month that kicks off the next nine months of formal education for those in K-12 as well as in college. But what about us adults who have already earned diplomas, certifications, and other badges of accomplishment?  We now...

If you want to avoid a race to mediocrity, be intentional in how you and your team members use GenAI (generative artificial intelligence). It’s tempting to offload as much work as possible to increase your efficiency and free up time for more valuable work. However,...

Warning: If you support how the Trump administration is “fixing” the culture of “elite” colleges and universities in the United States, please stop reading. You’ll find this content, including my point of view, offensive based on your current worldview, your political...

Celebrating is good for the brain. That’s one of the reasons why we npn.Hub members, our community for applied neuroscience, met online to observe the Hub’s second anniversary early in July. Yes, happy birthday to us! We wanted to gather both to mark our...