by jill-christensen | May 7, 2025 | Blog
After years of pushing my body with tennis matches and thrilling (but brutal) downhill ski runs, I found myself searching for a sport that could offer a bit more forgiveness. That is when I discovered Pickleball. With all the buzz about how it’s a sport for...
by jill-christensen | Oct 8, 2024 | Blog
According to a new report from Canva, a popular graphic design application: 56% of U.S. employees feel appreciated or very appreciated at work, 44% feel unacknowledged, and 75% of workers wish they felt more valued. Why does appreciation matter? Employees say gestures...
by jill-christensen | Sep 5, 2024 | Blog
NASA announced that two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) in the troubled Starliner space capsule may have to be rescued by Elon Musk’s upstart rival SpaceX. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams went up to the ISS in June for what...
by jill-christensen | Jul 10, 2024 | Blog
Businessman Kevin O’Leary is probably best known for his starring role on the television program Shark Tank, where gung-ho entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors. So, it may surprise you that O’Leary has a rule that he will not hire...
by jill-christensen | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog
Gallup just reported that worldwide, the cost of poor management and lost productivity from disengaged employees is $8.8 trillion or 9% of global GDP. For the past decade, I’ve been saying that how someone is managed has the biggest bearing on that person’s engagement...
