The first day at a new job is a defining moment in the employee experience. Here are 3 companies who get the importance of a first impression. These beautifully designed onboarding guides not only communicate the culture of the company through inspiring and simple messaging, but also send strong subliminal signals about the importance of the employee. When a company takes great care in crafting and printing handbooks like these, it’s hard not to get inspired.
Read MoreIn the positive workplace, critique and complaint begin to have a similar scent. I’ve heard the phrase “don’t just surface problems, come with solutions” in a dozen forms over my career. The idea is simple: don’t point out things that are wrong if you don’t have any ideas how to fix it. But it turns out that fixing things is hard, so in most cases this means people don’t point out anything at all. Read More
Read MoreWhat can the world’s most creative brands teach us about leadership? More than you might think.
Last week we were at the 99u Conference in New York. Each summer, Adobe gathers a community of designers and business leaders to connect and learn from leading creative minds. Surprisingly, this conference has almost nothing to do with pixels or brand strategies, and everything to do with sharing tools for leading an inspirational career and life.
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