The difference between a workforce that merely survives and one that performs at its peak often comes down to conditions—not capability.

When a manager learns how to recognize that a team member is anxious—and knows what to say—something remarkable happens. Productivity doesn’t just stabilize. It can accelerate.

When Sarah, a mid-level manager at a tech company, started asking her team members “How are you really doing?”, she didn’t expect what came next. Productivity increased.

Picture this: an overloaded project manager on a product launch team sends a late-night message to her peers: “I can’t get these final changes done in time—anyone able to help?” By morning, tw…

Meet the new workplace paradox: your youngest employees are your most pessimistic… and most optimistic.

Picture this. Your star performer shows up every day, completes their tasks, participates in meetings—but something’s changed. They’re physically present… but emotionally absent.

We’re living in what military strategists call a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.

How can we render ourselves more resilient before, during, and after trauma? Though it’s hard to picture now, the catastrophic, heartbreaking L.A.

The L.A. fires are nothing short of catastrophic.

You’d think all companies would have mastered workforce change readiness by now. The pace and intensity of change are only growing, and the costs of poorly handled change are sobering.

No one knows exactly how 2025 will play out for businesses. There are too many unknowns, from the economy to political and social instability to climate events, each increasingly unpredictable.

Since the introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, the rapid advancement of generative AI has significantly impacted the workforce.