David Burkus is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five books on leadership and teamwork.
For several decades, the Gallup Organization has administered the world’s most popular survey of employee engagement. The survey, known sometimes as the Q12, asks participants to rate how much they agree or disagree with 12 […]
In the modern economy, motivation is a tricky thing. A hundred years ago, when people like Frederick Taylor were pioneering scientific management, motivation was pretty easy. The idea was that you could switch people from […]
When the great work-from-home experiment started, and organizations around the world sent their people to work from home, many team leaders started to sense that they weren’t managing a team of 12 so much as […]
One of the things we know about performance at work is that talent flows from teams. How well a team communicates, collaborates, and supports the members greatly affects how well an individual performs. We’ve known […]
When the great work-from-home experiment began in 2020, one of the biggest fears for newly remote leaders was running virtual meetings. In fact, “Virtual meetings don’t work” is the most common response I hear when […]
Most leaders probably didn’t head into the great work-from-home experiment of 2020, assuming we didn’t know anything about hiring people remotely. In fact, most leaders struggled with the opposite issues when the initial economic downturn […]