by Joanie Connell | May 12, 2014 | Blog, Employee Engagement and Retention, Flexible Work, Leadership
By Joanie Connell A scary trend is emerging for companies to ban flexible work. Don’t do it. As explained in last week’s post about following along the fads without thinking, this is a bad idea. The workplace is changing whether we like it or not. That is a constant....
by Joanie Connell | May 6, 2014 | Blog, Flexible Work, Leadership, Millennials
by Joanie Connell The downside of operating at lightning speed is that we don’t have time to reflect on what we’re doing. We respond to challenges with knee-jerk reactions and leap onto the bandwagon without ever stopping to question whether this is the right way to...
by Joanie Connell | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog, Generations, Leadership
by Joanie Connell Differences between Generations Now, more than ever, people are talking about how different the generations are in the workplace. Skeptics wonder: are they different? Aren’t we all just people in the workplace? What’s the big deal about generations?...
by Joanie Connell | Apr 9, 2014 | Blog, Leadership, Women Leaders
By Joanie Connell and John Thornburgh Let’s face it: women in the workplace aren’t exactly known for supporting each other. Rosa Brooks exemplifies this with her recent Washington Post op-ed piece titled “Recline, don’t ‘Lean In’ (Why I hate Sheryl Sandberg).” In the...
by Joanie Connell | Apr 7, 2014 | Leadership, Remote Management, Time Management
by Joanie Connell Want to waste less time in web meetings waiting for the technology to work? Follow these tips to make your virtual meetings more efficient. There are numerous tools out there for making virtual meetings possible, such as GoToMeeting, WebEx, Skype,...