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Every week in 2022, Shawn Gulyas, Founder and The Thought Catalyst at humanworks8, shared a thought-provoking question in his weekly “Wondering Wednesday” newsletter on LinkedIn. Inspired by the humanworks8 core value of “Wonder,” Shawn’s challenges are designed to help leaders pause, if only for a moment, to think differently about…
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Are you ready for 2023? As the year wraps up, we all feel a sense of “reset,” perhaps believing things will be better or at least different when we wake up on January 1st. Instead of focusing only on personal resolutions, business leaders are also challenged with business resolutions, or…
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Avoiding Burnout, Turnover and Quiet Quitting McKinsey & Company reported trends tied to reshuffling, reinventing and reassessing as it relates to The Great Resignation. But what if employees didn’t have to resign in order to find work that aligned with their natural strengths? What if they could do their job…their…
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This interview with Rob Maniaci and Shawn Gulyas originally appeared in Issue 123 of the Business Owners Speak Out newsletter, a weekly publication sent to subscribers by ActionCOACH of Wisconsin. Learn more and subscribe. humanworks8 – Owner Shawn Gulyas Shawn Gulyas: Our tagline is that we help organizations bring work…
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A New Workplace Well-Being Framework The U.S. Surgeon General recently released a new framework for well-being in the workplace in light of some staggering statistics, including: 76% of U.S. workers in a 2021 survey reported at least one symptom of a mental health condition (anxiety, depression), an increase of 17…
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A recent Forbes article summarized the employee engagement survey as a way to discover what drives your unique group of employees so that you can more quickly engage them. The article also highlighted that summer is a “weirdly great” time for organizations to conduct engagement surveys. Now that I think…
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I can alliterate with the best of them, but sometimes I want to say “stop” with the catchy headline and get to what’s underneath. Fact: Employees have been quitting jobs forever. Some quietly and some quite loudly. I don’t know about you, but it’s less about them and more about their leader and…
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When is the right time for professional development? Is there even such a thing? “We’re hiring a few new employees right now so let’s wait until they’re onboarded.” “We’re swamped with work and can’t come up for air so let’s push it off until things calm down.” Professional development helps…
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What is Kolbe? You’ve probably heard of a plethora of personality assessments. You might have even taken one or more of them at some point in your career. We have! Rebecca and Shawn both used DiSC at a former employer. Sarah’s college job required StrengthsFinder. AJ recently tested out Working…
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When I led the Human Resources team for an organization for many years, I would sometimes end my day thinking – what did I accomplish today? There were days where I shook my head and said – nothing… Years ago, I decided not to focus so much on the tangible…
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