How Work Actually Works

<p>Most people who say they do not have enough time are not really talking about time.<br />They are talking about the way their week keeps getting taken from them.</p><p>It happens slowly.<br />A calendar fills up with...

<p>Most sales teams are built on pressure. Hit the number. Check the pipeline. Watch the leaderboard. And when the numbers slip, push harder.</p><p>But what if pushing harder is exactly what's breaking the...

<p>People don’t stay because of one big thing.</p><p>And they usually don’t leave because of one big thing either.</p><p>They stay, or start to drift, based on three everyday experiences at work:</p><p>Do I feel seen...

<p>When trust breaks down, people don't just disengage. They adapt. They go quiet in meetings, cc: six people on every email, and stop asking questions they actually need answered. They trade truth for peace, ownership...

<p>Most meetings follow the same script. Someone builds a deck, reads the slides, asks "any questions?" at the end, and calls it a success if nobody pushes back. But getting through your slides isn't the same as getting...

<p>Every interaction moves people in one of two directions.</p><p>Toward threat. Or toward safety.</p><p>Most leaders don't set out to put their people on the defensive. But it happens anyway—in the meeting where...

<p>There's a difference between resetting and reframing.</p><p>Most organizations treat a new year or new quarter like a magic eraser—turn the page, set new goals, pretend last year's struggles disappeared. But people...

<p>There's a difference between being watched and being seen.<br />Most workplaces have mastered watching—monitoring performance, tracking metrics, observing output. But seeing? That's the part that gets missed. And...

<p>What actually makes people want to follow a leader?</p><p></p><p>In this episode of How Work Actually Works, Joe Marques and KayLee Hansen break leadership down to its simplest—and most misunderstood—ingredients...

<p>What happens when you stop trying to fix what's broken and start building on what works?</p><p>In our first guest episode, Joe and KayLee welcome Tria Deibert, SVP of Culture and Team Member Wellbeing at Hackensack...

<p>Episode 5 opens with a surprise: Joe reveals the first physical proof copies of The Unmasking: Why We Hide and How We Find What’s Real—the moment the book finally becomes real (coming to Amazon December...

<p>Most teams aren’t quiet because they lack ideas — they’re quiet because they’ve learned it isn’t safe to speak.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, Joe and KayLee dig into the MASK Framework™ — the four protection patterns...

<p>For decades, leaders have been told to choose: results or relationships, performance or people. It’s a lie.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, Joe and KayLee dismantle that false choice. From Bob Chapman’s “touch lives”...

<p>In this intimate conversation, KayLee Hansen turns the mic toward Joe Marques to explore the story behind his forthcoming book The Unmasking — Why We Hide and How We Find What’s Real.</p><p></p><p>Joe opens up about...

<p>Work is broken — and we’re here to talk about how to fix it. In this first episode, Joe Marques (Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Authentic Unlimited) and KayLee Hansen (Senior Director of Culture & Client...