by Jamie Notter | Feb 18, 2019 | Change, Collaboration, Conflict
I started my career in the conflict resolution field, so conflict has always been on my radar, even as my work switched to workplace culture over the years. And while I may be that guy with the conflict hammer that thinks everything looks like a conflict nail, I have...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 8, 2019 | Engagement, Generational Diversity
One of the participants in my Managing Generational Diversity training course once told me an interesting story. Her Millennial daughter came home from work and told the mother that she had quit her job. When the mom asked why, the Millennial daughter replied,...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 31, 2019 | Books and Reading, Engagement
When we set out last year to write The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement (which launches today!), our first task was to see what others were writing about the topic. And according to just about every article and blog post out there, engagement is “hard to...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 23, 2019 | Consulting, Leadership, Strategy
I was talking with a colleague the other day who said that in her experience, management retreats usually ended up at one of two extremes: either they were stellar and everyone loved them, or they were a disaster and people ended up quitting at the end. That may be a...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 14, 2019 | Books and Reading, Change, Culture, Leadership
One of my mantras is that workplace culture isn’t as complicated, difficult, vague, etc. as we make it out to be. I’m not saying it’s super simple and easy, but it’s definitely something we all can handle. And since we push it away as “too complex,” we lack a tangible...
