We pulled ten unique HR leaders together into a collaborative discussion about challenges presented by the pandemic and we all had one big (surprising) struggle in common: everyone is struggling with onboarding new employees right now. Whether managing remotely, creating a hybrid approach, or modifying on-site protocols to include safety and social distancing measures, no one has a solution that feels right.   Organizations do these multi-day orientations because that’s what HR traditionally does, right? You join a company as a new employee and you expect to spend the first …

The Case for Setting a Word Count Limit at Work I love when my work in organizational leadership and my work in creative writing intersect in intriguing ways, and I’ve recently discovered a new way to marry the two. Over the last year, I’ve participated in lots of virtual creative writing workshops and prompts where a specific word count target was provided (e.g. “write a love story in 210 words”). The tricky part here is that it is not a word count maximum but a specific word count target. What …