Maybe you think it’s faster just to do it yourself. Or maybe you have a deadline coming up and you don’t want to risk missing it. Or maybe you don’t fully trust your team. If delegating feels like a struggle, you’re not alone—but you are holding yourself back. Delegating isn’t just offloading tasks; it’s keeping things moving, developing your team, and focusing…
Teams are more than just the sum of their parts. They’re complex systems in which individual behaviors can trigger chain reactions that enhance or undermine team effectiveness. The concept of domino derailers reveals how one team member’s behavior under stress can cascade through an entire group, silently eroding team effectiveness and draining organizational energy. Yet when properly…
On July 10, 2024, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest HR professional society, published a LinkedIn post about changing its approach to inclusion and diversity. The SHRM announcement proclaimed that the organization would immediately adopt “the acronym ‘I&D’ instead of ‘IE&D,’” removing the E for equity.…
Since 2020, about 25% of all US workers are hybrid workers, with about 15% working fully from home. What could explain this ongoing trend in remote work? Aside from evidence for increased productivity and well-being, personality characteristics can help explain work-from-home preferences. On episode 118 of The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke…
A time management coach explains that often it’s not the difficulty of a task that leads to procrastination, it’s the emotions connected to the task. You can feel the muscles between your shoulder blades tense up and your stomach feels a bit queasy. Is that a headache coming on? You know you really should do that task that’s collecting cobwebs on your to-do list.…