Really Great Teams Realize Psychological Safety For all of us to be at our best as a team and individual contributors, we need to be confident, motivated, and have the ability to be in the arena, as Theodore Roosevelt understood. We need to engage our peers up and...
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The Five Components of Confidence
How we embrace our own strength and power can make all the difference in our effectiveness and enjoyment about the things we do. Confidence is a mindset that we can control and embrace to demonstrate that strength and power. In our last blog, we defined confidence and...
What is Confidence?
If I could gift anybody a tool to build success and a strong well-being, it would be a sense of confidence. However, confidence is something that only we can build for ourselves. And it’s never totally resolved. If we always felt fully confident, it's likely would...
Embrace Personal Agency in the Workplace
More workers than ever are trying to find the right work-life balance and well-being at work. There are several movements like the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting aimed to revolutionize the worker’s power in the workplace. However, such actions may not be...
Decision-Making Insights
This summer, Elon Musk made headlines with his direct proclamation that Tesla employees must return to the office for a minimum of 40 hours a week. His remark of “If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned,” has drawn criticism from other CEOs and...
2011 Reflection
As 2021 comes to a close, it is an important time for reflection. This time of reflection provides us an opportunity to revisit this video from 2011. In this video, I project what the future of work might look like. Whether insightful or fortuitous, many of my...
The Great Resignation or Worker’s Revolution?
Lessons Learned from COVID The COVID-19 pandemic has taught organizational leaders a number of lessons. As cases and infections ebb and flow, new challenges are placed at the feet of these leaders. The leading challenge has been coined “the great resignation” – or...
Battle for the Future of Work
Necessity has driven innovation and the reimagining of work over the last nearly two years. Where we once said something was not possible, we are finding that we can do that thing and do it successfully. However, change is hardly unanimously embraced. Usually, it’s an...
Founder’s Syndrome, The Killer of Entrepreneurial Success
The first symptom of the founder’s syndrome is that they refer to themselves as a founder. Its’ okay for others to refer to me as the founder of Sojourn, but Sojourn is not done, so I am not the founder of anything yet.
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