Most of us don’t wake up thinking, You know what? Today’s the day I’ll bulldoze my team and make my colleagues miserable. And yet, despite our best intentions, sometimes that’s precisely how others experience us. Impact trumps intent. If your team is experiencing you as an accidental workplace bully, your good intentions don’t change their … 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
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 leaders spend time thinking about whether their coach is good. Very few spend time thinking about whether they’re a good coaching client, whether or not they themselves are coachable! That’s a mistake. Coaching is not something that happens to you. It’s something you do — with support. And the quality of your engagement determines … Read more
Most leaders I work with didn’t get an executive coach when things were going badly. They hired one when things were going well, and they had a nagging sense that well wasn’t going to be enough. That gap between where you are and where you know you could be? That’s the signal that it may … Read more
by Eric Spencer Workplace loneliness is at a crisis point. Most organizations are making it worse — accidentally. Here’s what the research says, and what to do about it. I wrote this article with the help of an AI. First time. And yes, it felt a little weird. I’m a GenX leadership consultant who has … Read more