TRENDS 2026: Reinforcing the Strategic Value of Learning
Data confirms that investing in upskilling and reskilling improves performance, retention, and organizational resilience. However, amid economic uncertainty and tightening budgets, training initiatives are at risk of being deprioritized. Pulling back now could erode hard-won gains, leaving the workforce less agile against future disruptions. 2026 is a pivotal year for L&D to reaffirm its position. […]
Manage Overwhelm Before It Spirals into Burnout
Overwhelm is easy to miss and costly to ignore. As a leader, your job is to recognize when capable people are quietly running on empty, burning out, or disengaging—and intervene accordingly. Here’s how. 1. Spot the silence and the strain Don’t mistake calm for calmness. Overwhelm often hides behind composure or quiet disengagement. 2. Create […]
[PART 3] What Can Managers Do With Their Teams to Improve Employee Engagement?
Teams build employee engagement through trust, clarity and shared effort. Strong engagement grows when managers and team members commit to regular, meaningful conversations about how they work together. The benefits of employee engagement are undeniable, so it makes sense that nearly every organization is aiming to improve it. However, even if you do everything “right,” […]
[PART 2] Employee Engagement: Deeper Than Temporary Satisfaction
One of the most common mistakes companies make is to approach engagement as a sporadic exercise in making their employees feel happy, usually around the time when a survey is coming up. Employees need more than a fleeting, warm-fuzzy feeling and a good paycheck (even if it helps them respond positively on employee engagement survey […]
[Part 1] Why Is Employee Engagement Important?
Gallup’s workplace engagement data show that engaged employees drive stronger business outcomes across every industry, regardless of company size or economic conditions. Engaging Employees Leads To: These outcomes are based on decades of research across industries and organizations worldwide. When comparing the most engaged teams to the least engaged, Gallup research reveals the clear benefits of employee […]
Navigate Overlapping Personal And Professional Challenges
In today’s volatile world, challenges rarely arrive one at a time. Leaders aren’t given the luxury of handling a personal setback on top of a professional one with recovery in between. More often, the two collide, amplifying stress, clouding judgment, and raising the stakes for every decision. HBR’s experts have identified four strategies to help […]
Four Leadership Practices That Boost the People Factors
The three people factors and their patterns when some are missing, but as a leader, it’s important toknow how you can boost the factors. See Patterns of Clarity, Unity, and Agility The case study research revealed that leaders who were successful in drivingstrategic speed applied these four practices consistently. Affirming strategies. The first step in driving speed is to […]
Patterns of Clarity, Unity, and Agility
It’s common for organizations to emphasize just one or two of the people factors and, as a result, to encounter some typical speed bumps. In practice, four patterns of organizational behavior crop up frequently. Each is characterized by different levels of clarity, unity, and agility. Not my problem (high clarity, low unity, average agility). In […]
Unmask Workplace Toxicity For Team Success
Recent studies have brought to light the widespread prevalence of toxic workplace cultures, revealing that such environments are 10.4 times more likely to drive employees to quit. This sobering statistic emphasizes the urgent need for organizations to adopt a systematic and structured approach in understanding and transforming workplace cultures. In today’s dynamic and evolving business […]
The Dream Job
More than one in three employees (35%) have changed jobs within the past three years, and 91% of employees left their company to seek their dream job, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report. Gallup asked employees how important certain attributes are when they consider whether to take a job with a different organization. We […]
