With the announcement that children ages five to eleven are now eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19, many workers are anxious about what changes their organizations may make in 2022. In some organizations, people were complaining about change fatigue before the pandemic. Now, adaptability and resilience have become a required…

More than ever, being a leader means both being resilient and teaching others how to be resilient. What the pandemic has taught me, is that resilience is first and foremost about belief in yourself. I am resilient because the voice in my head that says I can, or at least…

Team rituals are nothing new. The “ unity breakdown” that sports teams use, for example, has team members interlocking arms in a huddle while swaying and chanting in response to questions posed by their leader. As David DeSteno, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, notes, in his book How God…

Developing adaptive employees has been a goal of organizations for over a decade. While the pandemic forced a degree of adaptation for all of us, it also created even more uncertainty as we look toward the future. Moreover, adaptation fatigue, one of the myriad reasons people resist change, may have…

This fall, in a Forbes article, I introduced the idea of iceberg thinking versus pyramid thinking as a way to help leaders focus on how to use open-minded thinking to reduce stress. Iceberg thinkers lean into their neurotic tendencies, acting out of distress. They are highly concerned about the perceptions…

The holiday season is upon us! Winter is coming. For some, any celebration is great news, but for others, the combination of the omicron variant, holiday stress, and less sunshine may be impacting more than how they feel. It might also be impacting how they think. Worries Getting In The Way? A new study, conducted…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how dysregulation may be impacting leaders and their teams. I shared the work of Georgetown University Professor Elizabeth Stanley, author of Widen the Window, on finding agency to help leaders and their teams build resilience. But what causes dysregulation in the first place…

There is a lot of talk these days about how organizations could facilitate a return to work or redesign their operations to enable greater worker flexibility. It’s an important discussion, particularly in the context of diversity and inclusion. Yet in all of the discussions about the health and wellness of…

Passion and serenity help leaders achieve their goals. We love to believe that genius is a gift. We read stories about great leaders and their accomplishments. We talk about the characteristics that leaders have, as if they can be dissected, taught and learned. There certainly are benefits to start developing…