Quality of relationships declines as remote work increases. So how maintain rapport, motivation and a common identity when employees cannot meet often physically? How can managers adjust to sustain performance and wellbeing? Especially when more at ease with “managing by walking around”? High intensity telework may represent a steep learning curve for many managers. Luckily, […]

Help your team transition back to the office. Since the beginning of lockdown, you and your team have gradually become used to the new “telework normality“. Only to now have to adjust right back again to a new “social distancing office normality“. Unfortunately, it won’t be as easy as flipping the light switches back on […]

What would a Head of Remote Work do? It’s all about ensuring that remote work is properly supported versus merely allowed. Formalizing and implementing work from home properly needs to be managed as a process. Indeed, getting remote work right involves more of a cultural change of habits than simply switching from a mostly colocated […]

What role for a Head of Remote Work? It’s all about ensuring that remote work is properly supported. Not merely allowed. Because getting remote work right requires a slow change in habits instead of a quick flip from a collocated to a remote setting. Will your existing management and HR team be able to address […]

Falling for your coworker is both normal and common. But before acting on your feelings, you might assess the risks. Many organizations forbid their employees to date coworkers, vendors, customers, or suppliers, or then require specific disclosures. So be sure to check company policies before launching into a relationship. Your colleagues’ perceptions will reflect what they […]

Workplace conflict compromises mental health and productivity. Workplace conflict occurs when co-workers view shared situations through different lenses. Tension often escalates if nothing is done, so addressing the issue early on helps reduce strain and restore effective collaboration. If you find yourself in such a situation, you can feel more empowered by trusting your emotional […]

Close your skills gaps with the right approach to corporate training. A great majority of managers are concerned about the skills level of their teams. Especially in an ever changing work environment. Corporate training can indeed develop employees. But outdated methods and erroneous presumptions are holding back effective approaches. Full article : Fast Company Vicario […]

When managers are stuck. Challenging moments not only happen in companies and industries, they happen in careers, as well. They are points when — for whatever reason — the conditions we work in or the expectations placed on us are so fundamentally altered that, if we don’t adapt, we will fail. they cannot arrive at […]

Jumping the hurtle of limiting assumptions. Many managers hit an inflexion point in their careers. This typically occurs when work circumstances evolve drastically. If they fail to adapt, they risk finding themselves in difficulty because new solutions and modes of thinking are necessary. However, managers often get stuck repeatedly asking themselves the same questions. Executive […]

A survival skill in a VUCA world. Volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous. Do these adjectives apply to your work environment? Resilience increases our capacity to overcome career obstacles, helps us make sense of organizational changes, and supports us when having to navigate various forms of transition. This does not necessarily imply grinding your teeth and tensing […]