Workplace & Teams News
Expert commentary on workplace & teams communication events and trends.
4 min audio Why Senior Executives Fail Interviews (It's Not Their Resume)
Senior executives with impressive track records are getting eliminated at the interview stage for top roles. These are people with the credentials, the experience, and the results. But something breaks down when they sit across from a hiring panel. The problem is not their past performance. The problem is how they talk about it.
4 min audio Why Low Engagement Is a Communication Failure
Gallup's latest research reveals that employee engagement has hit troubling lows, and the organization points directly at leadership as the root cause. Workers across industries are checking out, not because of pay or perks, but because of how they are being led. The numbers confirm what many employees already feel: their managers are failing to connect with them in any meaningful way.
4 min audio Why Anonymous Employee Feedback Backfires
Companies increasingly rely on anonymous feedback systems to gather honest employee opinions about management, culture, and workplace issues. The debate centers on whether stripping away names actually produces better information or simply creates a channel for noise and avoidance. Both sides have legitimate points, but the conversation is missing the most important piece: anonymity is a symptom, not a solution.
4 min audio Gen Z Retention Is a Leadership Communication Problem
Businesses keep losing Gen Z employees and blaming the generation for lacking loyalty. A growing body of workplace analysis pushes back on that narrative, arguing the real problem sits one level up: managers who never learned to communicate expectations, give real feedback, or make workers feel like their contributions matter. The loyalty crisis, in this framing, is actually a leadership communication crisis.
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4 min audio Why Employee Engagement Is a Communication Problem
SHRM recently published research on building a connected workforce, focusing on what actually drives employee engagement in modern organizations. The findings point to a persistent gap between what leaders think employees need and what employees actually report experiencing. Most organizations are investing in the wrong places, and the disconnection is measurable.
3 min audio What AI Change Management Gets Wrong About Communication
McKinsey published a report on how companies need to rethink change management now that generative AI is reshaping the workplace. The core argument is that AI adoption is not just a technology problem. It is a people problem. Organizations that treat gen AI as a software rollout will fail. The ones that treat it as a fundamental shift in how work gets done will win.
4 min audio Why Your Team Can't Hear Your Vision (And How to Fix It)
A sharp piece in the Business and Financial Times makes an uncomfortable argument: corporate strategy does not collapse in the boardroom. It collapses in the space between leadership and the people doing the actual work. The author challenges leaders to test this themselves. Stop five random employees in a hallway and ask them what the company is working toward. The answer, most leaders discover, is silence or something unrecognizable. ---
4 min audio Why Repeating a Complaint Never Fixes It at Work
A senior leader, originally brought on as maternity cover, found herself absorbing the slack from a persistently underperforming colleague over an extended period. Despite raising the issue repeatedly with management, nothing changed. The situation eventually landed on the CEO's desk, but by then the leader was already paying the price in stress, lost sleep, and mounting frustration.
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4 min audio Why Low Engagement Is a Communication Failure
Gallup's latest research confirms what most working people already sense: employee engagement has stalled at troubling lows. Workers are showing up physically but checking out mentally, and the numbers back it up. Gallup points the finger squarely at leadership, arguing that managers and executives are failing to connect with their teams in ways that matter.
4 min audio Remote Team Communication: What Managers Get Wrong
Remote work is no longer an experiment. Five years in, companies are still fumbling the basics of managing distributed teams. HR departments across industries are now doubling down on new strategies: clearer check-in structures, intentional communication protocols, and deliberate culture-building that doesn't rely on physical presence. The question isn't whether remote work works. It's whether managers know how to talk to people they can't see.
4 min audio Why You're Handling Workplace Conflict Wrong
Workplace conflict is universal. Every organization, regardless of size or industry, runs into friction between people. A recent piece aimed at professionals tackled the question of how to navigate these clashes without torching relationships or careers. The advice was well-intentioned. But well-intentioned advice and effective advice are two very different things, and this piece highlighted a gap that costs professionals dearly every single day.
4 min audio Remote Communication: What Most Managers Get Wrong
Remote work exploded in adoption, and most companies responded by throwing more tools at the problem. Slack, Zoom, Teams, email, and project management platforms piled up. But the communication gaps got wider, not narrower. The core issue is not the technology. It is that organizations never taught their people how to communicate when the hallway conversation disappeared.
Culture and Cornhole: What Tony Pierce Gets Right
Celebrity Scandals: What Works in Reputation Comeback
Why Anonymous Feedback Masks Broken Culture
Mayor Mamdani's Egypt Comment: What Went Wrong
Hull City Owner's Public Spat: A Communication Failure
Why Scientists Fail at Communication (And How to Fix It)
What Amagi's CPO Gets Right About AI Leadership
