Work has been hard. Let's try to understand where we’ve been and commit to where we are going. In August, I (Kate) went on a four day backpacking trip in my home state of Colorado. There are four of us...
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Kate Roeske-Zummer and Debbie Cohen are Co-founders of Humanity Works a leadership development organization that focuses on increasing productivity by bringing more humanity to the workplace.
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Because apologies are complex. There have been some very public and private apologies swirling around lately and it got us curious: why are apologies so hard and how do we get them right? Spoiler alert: the answer - they are...
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If you haven’t already – GO. And tell your people to go. Last month, we wrote that we were both about to take a two-week vacation and be completely offline to restore ourselves, connect to what is important and get...
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The feelings of anxiety that coincide with taking time away from work are hard to ignore - so we wonder, what is that about? We chuckled when we came across the recent HBR Reading List titled How to Take a...
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People at all levels want some kind of clarity and understanding about what work is going to look like… we just don’t know. You can’t read a leadership article lately without reference being made to the Great Resignation, the Great...
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Humanity works! In this episode of the In the Lead Show, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer and we explored their five practices of leading with awareness, choice & courage. During our conversation,...
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What’s needed now are leaders who can do the hard things of leadership but in a human way. It seems like everyone is holding their breath waiting for “normal” to return. The hard truth is…it’s not. Whatever was “normal” before…
What an episode we have today, with not one, but TWO incredible women! Our first guest is Kate Roeske-Zummer – with a background as an account manager in the advertising industry, Kate is currently coaching people and working with organisations...
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It’s time to quit pointing fingers at managers. They are employees too. In 2015 Gallup released a hard truth: when employees quit their jobs, “one in two had left their job to get away from their manager.” That revelation began a hard…