Dealing with the Tough Stuff

A reading list about all kinds of conversations: light, naked, difficult and otherwise.  Conversations are the building blocks of business, because all business starts with relationships. Most common is small talk, but at the highest levels, companies seek to engage with their customers, employees and shareholders in large, purposeful conversations.   Small Talk Is a […]

Most people, at some time in their career, experience burnout. And while work/life balance often is the main culprit to blame, research shows it’s not the only one when someone’s trying to regain a balance. “Many of our customers are experiencing new forms of burnout, at the same time as their employees,” says Mildred Rivas-Aiken, […]

Even if the culture at the office enables these boundaries, each employee has to be confident in setting them. Here is what you need to know when taking work-life balance into your own hands. “Many of our clients face blurred lines regarding when to begin and when to stop work hours,” says Fernanda McElravy, customer […]

In functional democracies, political discussions among citizens are a regular part of interpersonal exchange. That this causes problems in the workplace is a topic as old as democracy itself. But how about solutions? When the tension is high, and this is always the case before elections, cases of politically motivated conflicts in the workplace also […]