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Post-covid Leadership Fiona Passantino, late April 2023 Whether by layoff, reorg or attrition, many businesses underestimate the true cost of losing talent, which goes beyond the obvious visible, “hard” expenses of payouts, fees, recruiting and training new employees....
Post-covid Leadership Fiona Passantino, early 2023 We suffer from a use-once-and-throw-away mindset. This goes for both plastics and people. Companies exhale and inhale staff on an annual cycle, but nothing ever truly disappears. The plastic particles from a...
Post-covid Leadership Fiona Passantino, late March 2023 Ramadan kareem! If you work in a diverse, international organization, chances are a portion of your workforce will be practicing Muslims; for an entire month starting March 22-23 (depending on the moon), they...
Post-covid leadership Fiona Passantino, Early March 2023 We all have one. The brash, high-performer with the big mouth. A fountain of radical ideas, constantly pushing back against the status quo. He bends the rules, ignores advice and does things his own way....
Post-covid leadership Fiona Passantino, Late February 2023 For many multinationals, internal communication is split between the office workers and those on the factory floor. Plant and field workers have some of the hardest jobs and provide core value for the company....
Post-covid leadership Fiona Passantino, Early February 2023 Often, our top-level leaders live in another world; they work at the same company with the same goals, vision and share the same elevators, but are invisible to the community working for them. How can leaders...
Post-covid employee leadership Fiona Passantino, Mid-January 2023 “Quiet quitting" describes an employee who “switches off” psychologically; logging in, doing the bare minimum to avoid being fired or becoming burned out, and at the end of the day, logs off. No more...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Late December, 2022 Engagement Managers are often measured by how they move the needle on employee net promoter scores or attrition rates. But in fact, it’s all about the details. Conveying the feeling of being heard,...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Early December, 2022 We all know what “burn-out” is: a medical-emotional condition that can be identified and quantified. “Burn-in” is an invisible, little-known phenomenon that affects high-functioning teams and is...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Early November, 2022 Fattening the pipeline While some employees are happy doing the same thing every day for many years, most want to see a path forward, a plan to grow and evolve, and move up within the organization....
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Late September, 2022 New era, new values As we enter our post-Covid period in history, many organizations are taking a hard look in the mirror. Who are we? What do we stand for? What is our Meaning, and Purpose? Why are...
Post-covid employee engagement Fiona Passantino, Early September, 2022 Hybrid is (still) here At any given time, some of us will be working from home and some will be in the office. That’s the current reality of “hybrid”: a shapeshifting concept that will likely...
