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Recent research shows that loneliness can reduce psychological safety by almost half. Feeling lonely at work is not, as most people assume, a remote-work problem. The people most affected are the colleagues sitting right beside you. This has happened to me twice now. At two separate conferences in different cities, with different audiences, the result … Read more
The AI conversation has focused heavily on which jobs will survive, how education needs to adapt, and what happens to the economy. These are critical questions. But at SkyeTeam, we see a gap in the conversation that concerns us: AI and human connection, especially the impact on our workplace relationships, when the systems that brought … Read more
When a company conducts a significant layoff, all the attention goes to the people who lost their jobs. But the people surviving a layoff just lost something too, and it deserves attention. At SkyeTeam, we work with leadership teams navigating exactly these moments. And the pattern we see is consistent: the biggest challenge for remainers … Read more
How many times in the last month has someone asked you to “type in the chat where you’re dialing in from”? If you’re in back-to-back virtual meetings, the honest answer is probably: more times than you can count. It’s become the default opening ritual of distributed work. It’s the default meeting ice-breaker question. Someone shares … Read more
Layoffs are no longer exceptional events. With AI-driven restructurings accelerating across every industry, career transitions have become a recurring feature of professional life. And while most layoff advice focuses on the mechanics, we’ve found that relationships after a layoff are the real differentiator. It’s not your resume that determines whether you land in three weeks … Read more
Meaning-FULL Connectivity™ is the capacity and intentional practice of creating meaningful connection with ourselves and others through trust, empathy, presence, and authentic workplace relationships. And right now, many workplaces are struggling with it. Not because people don’t care. Not because teams aren’t communicating. But because communication and connection are not the same thing. Most organizations … Read more
Human connection is becoming one of the most important leadership differentiators in the age of AI.AI is taking the information job. It’s handling the coordination, summaries, meeting notes, status updates, and, increasingly, the first draft of almost everything. This is the transactional work that used to consume huge portions of a leader’s week, and is … Read more
In 2012, Google spent two years and significant research budget trying to answer one question: what makes a high performing team? Their answer — psychological safety — swept through the leadership world and hasn’t left since. You can’t attend a leadership conference or open a management article without bumping into it. Here’s what bothers me … Read more
When it comes to how to build a high performing team many leadership books will tell you to ‘hire the best people.’ Culture consultants will tell you to build psychological safety. HR will send you a team effectiveness survey. None of it is wrong, exactly. But none of it gets at the thing that actually … Read more
Most dysfunctional teams don’t look dysfunctional from the inside. Meetings happen. Deliverables get produced. People are professional. Nobody is throwing chairs. The signs of a dysfunctional team can be subtle. What’s actually happening is quieter and more expensive: decisions are being slowed by unspoken disagreement. Energy is being consumed by relationship friction that nobody is … Read more