Posts in Friday Newsletter
Hot Topic Friday: May 8

Happy Friday! Here are my May 8 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. There is a right way to conduct layoffs, Airbnb is a great example. And wouldn’t you know it? Great cultures do better during crisis.

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Hot Topic Friday: May 1

Happy Friday! Here are my May 1 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Is Zoom and video conferencing truly bad for us? And we talk about big, bad, billionaire Bill Gates.

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Hot Topic Friday: April 24

Happy Friday! Here are my April 24 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Try this technique to connect more meaningfully during virtual meetings. And, how old are you emotionally? Let’s talk about it.

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Hot Topic Friday: April 17

Happy Friday! Here are my April 17 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Here are some exciting post-pandemic predictions about work, and how companies can use imagination to put a lot of life back into their operations.

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Hot Topic Friday: April 10

Happy Friday! Here are my April 10 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. How do you think your leadership will be remembered during these times? And here are some practical tips for keeping engagement high during Zoom/virtual meetings.

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Hot Topic Friday: April 3

Happy Friday! Here are my April 3 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week, let’s cheers to making the best out of those Virtual Happy Hours! And fortunately, bad times bring out kind people.

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Hot Topic Friday: March 27

Happy Friday! Here are my March 27 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re asking if it’s grief that people are feeling during this time, and then examining our journey and next steps to the next normal. Come join us!

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Hot Topic Friday: March 20

Happy Friday! Here are my March 20 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Here are some refreshing bright spots to counter balance the doom and gloom out there, as well as an unexpected poem that has delivered a breath of fresh air for many.

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Hot Topic Friday: March 13

Happy Friday! Here are my March 13 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Like everybody else, we’re talking about the Coronavirus, but how are we leading through it? And while there’s no vaccine yet, here’s one antidote we can all practice now (for free).

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Hot Topic Friday: March 6

Happy Friday! Here are my March 6 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the difference between worry, stress and anxiety (and what we can do about it), as well as the one trait that seemingly all unhappy people share. Do you have it too?

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 28

Happy Friday! Here are my Feb. 28 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about David Ayres’ journey from Zamboni driver to goal tender, as well as introduce you to the story of Donald Lee. Here’s how I think they both can have a big motivational impact on us all.

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 21

Happy Friday! Here are my Feb. 21 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the expression of genuine positivity in the workplace, and how getting to know ourselves is not easy. Then, learn about how being “indistractable” at work is considered today’s super power.

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 14

Happy Valentines Day Friday! Here are my Feb. 14 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the importance of deep listening (or the lack there of), and how that impacts our teams and results, as well as the crucial demand for finding the WHY over just financial gain in today’s organizations.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 31

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 31 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about how leaders, investors and workers should approach burning out, and the benefit of writing a letter to yourself every 10 years.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 24

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 24 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about if we can truly bring our authentic self to work, and how to navigate the inevitable curveballs that will impact our personal and professional plans.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 17

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 17 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week, do you think we can be happy in 2020? Also, as leaders, let’s talk about dealing/helping with depression at work.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 10

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 10 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re discussing helpful ways we can stop being “sick and tired of being sick and tired” in 2020, as well as analyzing another article on the simplicity of organizational culture.

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Hot Topic Friday: Dec. 13th

Happy Friday! Here are my Dec. 13 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Although it’s Friday the 13th, fear not, because we’re talking about how we can learn from chimps and bonobos, as well as how it’s better for business for leaders to already be on board the gender equality train.

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Hot Topic Friday: Dec. 6th

Happy Friday! Here are my Dec. 6 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about finding light in the dark of the holiday season (is there too much cheer? And what does that mean?) as well as becoming emotional scientists.

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