A blog by Thought Design
Did “Improve work life balance” make your New Year’s Resolution this year? “Work life balance” has become such a buzzword. We hear it all the time. Employees expect their employers to provide it for them, employers promise it to their employees; it’s one of those...
Who is the next version of you? Each week we offer you a peek into some of the things we are filling our heads and hearts and ears with. This week we wanted to offer you a little inspiration. Meet Angela Alvarez. She is the winner of the Best New Artist award at...
We do a lot of thinking and talking about how to create cultures where it’s psychologically safe for people to learn. Even with our good intentions, it can be tough. There is always a lot of pressure to get things right. We don’t feel like we have enough time or...
A few weeks ago, my niece and I took a pottery wheel class. Neither of us had ever done anything like this before so we were both a little nervous that we were going to make total fools of ourselves! We showed up for the class and our instructor, Caroline, put us...
Am I getting the feedback I need… in time to integrate it? Most of us don’t get enough feedback (which is really just gathering more perspective than we could create on our own) just because we don’t like it (and we often don’t). Often, it’s a matter of taking the...
Have you noticed that you are hearing that word a bit more often lately? Of course, it’s one of the things at the top of the list for our government right now. It appears that soon we will be embarking on a massive investment in our infrastructure. Why invest so...
