The Mode/Switch

Hey there! Welcome to this week’s Mode/Switch, helping you do more than cope when work’s a lot. This week, it’s a podcast for mid-level leaders about invisible labor. "You have to shift your depth of field," says...

Courtney Ellis joins the Mode/Switch to help managers lead through exhausting change. Listen to learn how your language choices affect your team's trust. (And how to try birding at work!) I have to admit, just seeing a...

Hey there, and welcome to The Mode/Switch, which helps you do more than cope when work’s a lot. This week, Chuck Gose joins the pod to explain how more managerial communication can diminish trust--and how to reverse...

Elaine Howard Ecklund & Denise Daniels join the Mode/Switch Pod to help managers engage the sacred as a source of strength on the job. (You'll also learn to avoid missteps!) Since the everything in the world feels so...

<p>No topic has evoked more F bombs in my research than workplace spirituality. In the late 2010s, I interviewed dozens of organizational leaders about mindfulness in their working communities. I was looking for...

<p>Lyle Wells joins the pod to talk about how you, as a mid-level leader, can speak clearly with your team, yes, but also how you can get an actual hearing with your higher-ups. </p><p>That's a question that drives the...

<p>Suzanne Rabicoff joins our intergenerational roundtable with two perspective‑switches that ease the pressure mid‑level leaders feel when mistrust becomes their problem to solve.</p><p>When Jenni Field’s book argues...

<p>Emily Stewart (of Business Insider) joins our intergenerational roundtable to urge grace towards the Boomers who keep their jobs past what your Gen Zs feel is the expiration date.</p><p>I recently had to grind the...

<p>Dr. Meryl Herr joins the Mode/Switch roundtable to look beneath worker disengagement to uncover the reality of "work hurt." Her advice to managers? Work has probably hurt your team. But it's hurt you, too. Deal with...

<p>Jay Johnson joins the roundtable to help you cope with difficult people on the job. </p><p>He's used to working with corporate execs who have lost their way. (You can connect with him here, btw.)</p><p>But in our...

<p>Dr. Lola Adeyemo joins the pod to help you, as a mid-level leader, re‑engage employees whose life experience beyond the workplace is radically different from your own.</p><p>A tough fact of organizational leadership...

<p>Karen Sergeant joins the pod to discuss misplaced fears about AI. These new tools can be scary, sure. But they can also make leadership miscommunication utterly visible and surprisingly reparable.</p><p>A tree falls...

<p>How do you equip workplace "follower-ship" without turning it into an excuse for toxic leadership? </p><p>That question gets teased our in this episode's intergenerational conversation on the Mode/Switch with Rabbi...

<p>Jenni Fields joins the pod to show why workplace effectiveness depends on likability, not on being liked. (Our Gen Z and Boomer discuss the the up and downsides of riz.) </p><p>Some years ago, a manager cautioned me...

<p>What if the best way to improve workplace communication is to do less of it, at least for a while? Ross Chapman joins the pod to explain why new rhythms of rest can do what more messaging never will.</p><p>Workplace...