https://youtu.be/8-ellROlH2A Visions and missions are NOT the same - yet too often they're used interchangeably. But this common mistake can derail your operations and reduce the likelihood of achieving your strategic goals. If your vision is too long, employees will be confused on what really needs to be accomplished. A lengthy vision statement also tends … Continue reading The 1-Word Vision to Focus Your Organization
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“Cybersecurity stress is an industrywide epidemic among security professions. Burnout is a hard conversation, but it’s necessary for CISOs to face workplace stress before it compromises productivity, talent retention or individual well-being” (Henry, 2020). Long work hours. Constantly changing priorities. Insufficient resources. High turnover. These are just some of the factors that a recent survey … Continue reading Leadership (Not Workload) Linked to Cybersecurity Burnout
I recently had the opportunity to present a keynote at the Pittsburgh Human Resource Association's Annual Conference. A funny thing happened as I presented my topic, How to Stop Workplace Burnout and Build Employee Resiliency: the technology CRASHED! What was unexpected became a study in resiliently bouncing back from this debacle. After the collective gasp from … Continue reading How to Avoid Burnout and Build Resiliency [Interview]
(This is part 1 in a 5-part series on why change initiatives fail.) Throughout the years, researchers have discovered that 70% of organizational change initiatives fail. One of the primary reasons cited is the ambiguity associated with making "change." Qualitative metrics are often ignored. Aligning the outcomes with economic realities are often over-emphasized. Human fears … Continue reading Why Change Initiatives Fail: Position Power vs. Network Power
When most people think of "flexibility," we usually think about physical flexibility. In contrast, flex in the workplace is often synonymous with temporal (or time-based) flexibility -- in other words, flex-time, compressed work weeks, or telecommuting. But neither one of these definitions encompasses the full range of flexible options that employers can and should offer their workers -- especially … Continue reading Workplace Flexibility: Why It’s More Than Just Flexible Hours
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