How to raise your ideas up the chain of command
You’re here because you have an idea. All you need is the courage and confidence in yourself and your idea to share it! Too often this is easier said than done. In fact, a landmark study found that 85% of employees withheld their ideas because they were too afraid to speak up. Imagine if all of those bright ideas had the chance to be shared and considered?! Entire companies would be overflowing with creativity and opportunity! The world itself would be a very different place if people didn’t fear being rejected or having their ideas lost in a black hole of company suggestion boxes.
Experiencing job dissatisfaction: how to decide if it’s time to quit
There are few things more nerve-wracking than deciding to leave a job. Change is scary, especially when it involves your livelihood!
Managing up: the do’s and don’ts and why it’s important for success
“Help me, help you!” Jerry Maguire famously shouted. In the film, Jerry was a sports manager who was up at dawn every day in what he called a “pride-swallowing siege” for his client who had no idea just how hard his manager worked for him.
7 productivity methods: which one’s just right for you?
There are early birds, night owls, Monday haters, yes people, procrastinators, micromanagers, slackers, over achievers, team players, do-ers, busy bees, and everything in between. The question is: what kind of a worker are you? Going one step further, which productivity methods are just right for you and how (and when) you work best?
How to improve manager onboarding for incoming leaders
Employee onboarding is not one-size-fits-all. And if you’re onboarding managers like the employees they are leading, you are doing them a disservice.
5 ways to reinvigorate and level-up your home office
New year, new you. But what about the spaces where you spend so much of your time?
How to overcome the Sunday Scaries with Trello
Do you ever feel that pit in your stomach on Sundays and can’t understand why? Or maybe you do know—it’s because you’re dreading Monday morning and returning to the office after a nice relaxing weekend. This is a known phenomenon called the Sunday scaries.
A project management team’s guide to successful project governance
You’re a crew member on a ship. Your ship’s captain has reviewed all of the necessary nautical maps, charted out where you’re headed, and decided on the route you’ll take to get there. The captain ensures that you stay on course, making high-level decisions as they arise, and monitoring for oversight, like hidden reefs. If a storm blocks your way forward—all hands on deck!—the captain must find safe passage from the storm, before steering the ship back in the right direction. The same can be said of effective project governance.
Talent mobility: why you should let your top performers move around the company
Ever heard the phrase “golden handcuffs?”
How trees and forests can teach us valuable lessons in teamwork
4,850 years old, the age of the oldest living tree. This is significantly older than the oldest human, all modern organizations, and more than double the Pandya Dynasty (generally considered the longest lasting human empire).
A modern leader’s guide to organizational transparency
We’re living in a more transparent world than ever before. Thanks to smartphones, social media, and the internet, constant real-time communication is now the norm. For better or worse, we pretty much always know what’s going on with our friends, family, and colleagues.
4 ways to manage your energy and have a balanced, productive workday
If you were a marathon runner, you would train by starting small. You would set goals for yourself, but know your limits and never push beyond them in case of injury or burnout. You would know when to slow down, rest, and recover, and when to pick up speed. You would run in intervals based on the peaks and dips of your energy. You would listen to your mind, body, and spirit. If your energy faltered, you would back off and slow to a walk or stop completely to stretch, take breaks, and refuel. You would know how to manage your energy efficiently.
6 ways companies can help their employees overcome burnout in a distributed world
Burnout. If you haven’t experienced it yet, there’s a good chance that you’ve gotten close. Workplace stress is tough to deal with at the best of times, and on top of everything, the last couple years have been some of the most stressful in recent memory!
Trello’s top project management hacks for engineering teams
Your engineering team is heads-down busy. In order for them to function efficiently and iterate quickly as a team, they need open communication and collaboration, and effective, interconnected tools. The less time spent context-switching between tools, the better.
How to build a tight-knit team across time zones
“How do you feel about working for a company based in India?”