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WOMEN’S HEALTH BENEFITS, THE MODERN LEADER, AND THREADING THE NEEDLE: EFFECTIVELY NAVIGATING IN A POLARIZED WORLD In this issue of Your Monthly SHIFT, we cover topics of greater importance to building better workplaces than ever before: Women’s Health Benefits, The Modern Leader, and Threading the Needle: Effectively Navigating in a Polarized World. If you like what you read here, please forward a copy to a family member, friend or colleague. I’m keenly interested in expanding our community of thinkers, observers, debaters and discussionists (yes, I just made up that word). Also, drop me a line if there is a [...]

Many of us have experienced stress at work. But when a leader and the workplace that supports them is so toxic that an employee must go on medical leave, this should be disturbing and unacceptable to all of us.

At SHIFT, we are passionately focused on one thing: building better workplaces. To achieve this, we require a partnership with people just like you - open minded thinkers who are ready to challenge old ways of thinking and doing, and taking a “time out” for reflection and learning. It’s about embracing new perspectives and ideas. And this can be difficult. Falling into old patterns is powerful. They are familiar. They have “worked” up until this point. They are comfortable. They are easy. SHIFTing our mindset is just the opposite. It requires intention, self-awareness, patience and a commitment to question [...]

Can you really prepare for a crisis? As someone who has managed several organizational crises, I am often this asked this question, and the answer is a resounding yes. The more salient question is why should organizations take the time to prepare and how should they go about it?