Mask Shaming
2020 was a year that brought lots of new terminology and phrases. No surprise – 2021 isn’t much different, and we have a new one to add to our list. That term is “Mask Shaming”. Let’s take a moment and delve into that phrase. Mask shaming involves comments made to...
Leaders Never Stop Learning!
Next week brings a close to yet another dynamic 4-month Leadership Series. I’ve been facilitating this series, along with my co-worker Darrin Finley, for several years now. And each time around, I secretly admit that I walk away learning more than the attendees. (And...
Let’s Talk About Risk
HR, employment law, training… let’s be honest, this may not always be the most favored meeting request that some leaders receive across their calendars. For some, those meetings and trainings are seen as a waste of time because “HR handles that.” So let’s set the...
The Simplicity of Diversity
If I had a dollar for every person that has attended a Diversity or Unconscious Bias webinar, class, zoom call, TED Talk, or podcast in the last couple of years, I wouldn’t be writing about the topic. Instead, I’d be hanging out with the idle rich! That said, with so...
Dear Abby
In today’s Dear Abby column, the writer asked for advice about leaving her employer. The employer in her opinion hasn’t cared about keeping employees safe and now she has a negative opinion of the owner. Because of this, she views the owner as greedy and non-caring...
The Talent Bench
When I think of the talent bench, I think of a sports team with the next round of players waiting there dressed for the game and ready to jump in and play. Sometimes teams have really great players on those benches and sometimes not so much. In business, we need at a...
A New Administration
For those of you who don’t know me, I am a bit of a nerd. It took me a while to really lean into that idea but I can’t help that I tend to get a kick out of odd things. The quote “There is nothing permanent except change” was actually written somewhere around 535 BC...
A Day of Remembrance
Dr. King penned so many of my favorite quotes, “the ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people” and “everybody can be great because everybody can serve.” By far my favorite of all of his quotes...