Your COHORT is OPEN! 🥳
As everything we know about the way we work has continued to shift, you might find yourself totally stressed and overwhelmed. And if you’re a people manager—one of the MVPs of the last few years—you’ve played (and will continue to play) a critical role leading through these times. In other words, managers are having a […]
Get human with AI
One of the feistiest sessions I attended at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival was on AI and Global Learning. Go figure! The discussions were intense and thought-provoking, with perspectives ranging from: Kaya Henderson, co-founder and CEO of Reconstruction and one of the panelists, summed it up perfectly: “We don’t need to decide if it’s good […]
Loneliness is still a thing
Last week, at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival, I attended two sessions that were so oversubscribed that people were actually sitting on the floor. Surprisingly, these were not the sessions with tech guru Kara Swisher and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, or even the session with author Michael Lewis talking about Sam Bankman-Fried. The standing-room-only sessions were Dr. […]
My meeting with a great human leader
A few days ago, I got this text: Erica – Greetings – Dawn here! Always like to check in when I am headed to Aspen to see how you are and if there is a chance to say hello! Would be great to connect. I hope you and your lovely family are well. Dawn It’s […]
What do employees want? 🤯
What do you think employees want more than anything? If you’re like most employers, you think it’s: According to a recent study from McKinsey, what employees really want is connection. Yep. Good ol’ human belonging and connection. And room for growth and flexible work are also important. Check out the top left quadrant of the matrix below […]
Don’t be lonely at work 💛
I recently came across a Wall Street Journal article called “The Loneliness of the American Worker,” which included some pretty bleak stats about our modern work lives. Take a look: Which is to say—very little about work is working. People—parents especially—feel stuck at home and lonely, and many people are spending their work day in back-to-back Zoom […]
I deleted instagram
For the last 19 years (except during Covid), I’ve gone away by myself once a year to take a break, get off my technology, and just relax. This year my reset ritual took place over Memorial Day weekend, and as a bonus, I brought my two daughters. As we drove out of NYC to the […]
Is it enough to just listen?
It’s pretty impressive how ChatGPT or any other AI tool can respond to a basic question and spit out the answers. So fast! Or find information that gets a conversation started. Or even “sit in” on a meeting and take notes. Or any number of other data-centered tasks. In a sense, AI can listen, but […]
The chat was on fire 🔥
Last week I hosted a free event called The Case for Community: The ROI of IRL Connection as a preview of a new keynote + workshop I’m offering. The chat was so full of comments and questions I couldn’t get to them all, so I wanted to follow up. Here are just a few: – “People often commute […]
Be intentional instead of reactive
I’ve been studying LinkedIn as a company since 2017 when I was writing Bring Your Human to Work. One of the most impressive things I learned was about how about former CEO Jeff Weiner’s “not to be missed” All-Hands Meeting occurred every other Wednesday at 10 a.m. That doesn’t sound like much, does it? Okay, how […]
