In Parts One and Two of this blog series, I wrote about how conflict avoidance seems to be the most common—but also the most ineffective—strategy for handling difficult conversations. Not only is conflict avoidance an ineffective strategy, but putting off difficult...
Pandemic Flux: Why Many of Us Are Rethinking … Everything Recently, I have been reflecting on the “Big Quit” that seems to be happening across many workplaces and documented in countless articles. Some of those reflections are described in my recent two-part blog on...
Most of us have heard a story where someone displayed astonishingly selfish and entitled behaviour. These people seem so self-absorbed and narcissistic – and they clearly believe that they deserve preferential treatment, just because! But sometimes we mistake...
So much has changed during the pandemic; it’s not surprising that huge numbers of employees are “re-evaluating” their careers and their experiences with work. Some level of organizational churn and turnover is expected but it seems that the trend of leaving for...
In this blog post, we pick up where we left off in our discussion of The Portfolio Career (Part One). Clearly, the world of work is changing. This is even truer during (and probably after) the pandemic. The “gig economy” that rose in the post-financial-crisis job...
