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Making Work Human

Agencies have a freelancer problem—here’s how to solve it

Most organizations waste money by forcing freelancers to find their own footing. Don’t be most organizations. Here’s how you can improve agency operations right now.

This is the catalyst for the workplace revolution

Right now is the moment when remote-capable workforces become a must, and employees break free from their tethers as people around the world realize that when you have modern, adaptive, and resilient systems in place, you can weather most any storm.

It’s worth mastering this one essential life skill

Solve any problem, at any time, with this one skill. As a person, a team, or an organization, here’s what it takes to flourish.

The Human Workplace

The organizations leading the way are the ones that are embracing the messiness of life and work, and learning to use our humanity as a strength, instead of a weakness. Here’s how.

Workplace experience as a foundation for customer experience

The experience that a customer has with an organization’s products, services, and people, will be an embodiment of the organization’s workplace experience, and will reflect back the principles, values, and beliefs of that specific organization. (I think.)

Here Comes The Human Era of Work

It’s time to redesign life at work, and the role of work within life.

How Being Human Can Help You Thrive In Today’s Complex World

We as humans have lost our way, amid the world of connectivity and complexity. Luckily, our humanity can bring us back to life.

Making work more human in 2017

From workplace experiences to habitual interactions, here are a few ways we can each individually improve ourselves and our organizations.

Asking for help in 2017

As I move forward along my journey of self-employment, I’m tapping into my vulnerability and doing something I don’t typically like to do: I’m asking for help!

Why It’s Important To Make Workplaces More Human

It’s becoming crystal clear that more human workplaces lead to more successful organizations, and it’s time for leaders everywhere to focus on making work more human.

Creativity — Why Gap Time Is So Important

In this always-connected environment we live in, it’s more important than ever for us to set intentions and make sure we’re making space for our brains to disconnect, unwind, wander, and connect dots.

Mindset — Grow Your Potential With Positive Perspectives

This piece will explore how our mindsets can be key to creating our best work, and offer up a practice you can explore that may help shift your thinking and get out of those ruts.

Vision — What It Takes To Be Where You Want To Be

By bringing new perspectives, mindsets, and practices into our daily routines, we unlock our incredible potential and empower ourselves to approach life in new ways so we can create the changes we want to see in our world.

Why We Must Reconnect With Ourselves, In Our Always-Connected Environment

If we can envision our futures to be more enjoyable, enlightened, fulfilling, and intentional, we can begin to transform ourselves, our working habits, and our lifestyles. Instead of letting technology overrun our days, our workflows, our habits and our livelihoods, we can get ahead of the tech and make sure we use it all with intention; with purpose.

An Introduction To My Essay Series On Mindful Working

We’re getting in our own way by operating based on institutions, organizations, and structures of a world that once was. It’s time to create changes that usher in and fully support the new, modern, 21st-century workforce.

To reinvent our organizations we must first reinvent ourselves

People are not connected with their work because they’re not able to truly focus on their work. With all the distractions, interruptions, and complications of getting stuff done, so many people feel as though they’re not having an impact — no wonder we’re all disengaged!

A Manifesto for Emerging Leaders

My thoughts on what it takes to be a leader.

How Do You Spend Your Days?

I’m sick of people asking the mundane, “so what do you do?” immediately upon meeting someone new. Here’s how a 92 year-old man I barely knew shifted my perspective and gave me a great conversation starter.

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