by Deborah Pettry, Ph.D. | Apr 22, 2021
Authors: Bruce Griffiths M.S., Deborah Pettry Ph.D., and Michael Slatoff M.A. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our abrupt shift in 2020 to remote work seems likely to stay to some degree for countless individuals. This has come with personal and social costs for many on remote...
by Rich Mayhew | Mar 26, 2021
I was talking to a friend very recently. She had started a business during the Great Recession of 2008. What a time to have started one! She described the difficulties and challenges associated with shepherding a startup during economic uncertainty. She now says...
by Deborah Pettry, Ph.D. | Jan 15, 2021
How do people keep going after an event shatters the workplace and the lives of everyone in it? How does one return to workplaces that no longer feel safe? How do we cope when coworkers are missing, whether through trauma or by choice? Although the September 11, 2001,...
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by Deborah Pettry, Ph.D. | Sep 22, 2020
Have you read Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile yet? It’s about British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s leadership of his country during the Blitz air bombings of 1940-1941 – a time of great threat and uncertainty. The threat was the strong possibility of a...
by Rich Mayhew | Aug 15, 2020
Even for someone like me, a consultant who has developed a specialty in helping organizations and individuals navigate change, it’s been a tough year. The economic, medical and social tsunamis hitting our shores, have caused me to dig deep inside to help myself and...
by Rich Mayhew | Jul 24, 2020
As companies went from having a small fraction of remote workers to having 90% of employees working remotely one would think that productivity would take a big hit, not just because of the technological challenges but also because the adage of “out of sight, out of...
