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The Energy Audit: How Employers Can Help Teams Work Smarter, Not Longer
As the summer solstice approaches, it’s a natural moment to reflect on energy. Not just energy from sunlight, but human energy at work. In the workplace setting, we often talk…
What We’re Reading: The AI-Driven Leader by Geoff Woods
For this month’s reading pick, we explored one of the biggest questions facing organizations today: how leaders can adapt and thrive in the age of artificial intelligence. That led us…
Managing Star Performers: What Employers Can Learn From the World Cup
With the start of the World Cup generating global excitement, I have been reflecting on the parallels between world‑class athletes and high performers in the workplace…and there are surprisingly quite…
The Unspoken Trade-Off Behind Pay Transparency
For years, HR leaders have pushed for greater pay transparency, and for good reason. Employees want clarity, fairness, and confidence that compensation decisions are grounded in something more meaningful than…
Should Employees Be Allowed to Outsource Their Work to AI?
Employees aren’t waiting for formal policies to catch up. They are using AI tools to draft emails, summarize meetings, analyze data, and even produce first drafts of reports. In many…
The Business Value of Being Yourself at Work
In conversations with clients, I’ve noticed a subtle but important shift in how organizations talk about authenticity at work. A few years ago, it was framed as a cultural or…
The End of HR as We Know It?
For decades, organizations have been built around functional silos. HR handled people. IT handled systems. Finance handled numbers. Operations handled execution….and so on. And this model worked reasonably well in…
Is ‘Authentic Leadership’ Putting Too Much Pressure on Managers?
Not long ago, managers were primarily measured on delivery and performance. Today, however, this has evolved, and they’re now expected to be authentic, vulnerable, strategic, empathetic, inclusive, and consistently inspiring…often…
What We’re Reading: In Praise of the Office by Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh
For this month’s reading pick, we turned our attention to one of the most debated topics in today’s workplace: where work should actually happen. That led us to In Praise…
The Quiet Skill Gap: What Employees Aren’t Telling Their Employers
On paper, the data looks manageable. According to the UK’s Employer Skills Survey, around 12% of employers report skills gaps, equating to roughly 1.26 million employees lacking full proficiency. But…
Winning Isn’t Everything: What Eurovision Reveals About Workplace Success
In the world of work, we often find ourselves wrestling with the idea of success. Most notably, how we define it, how we measure it, and how we reward it.…
OrgShakers Welcomes Dacia Faison-Roe
OrgShakers is delighted to welcome Dacia Faison‑Roe to our network. With more than 20 years of experience as a people leader and trusted C‑suite advisor, Dacia brings a rare depth…
