Dallin Nelson is a writer and musician based in Los Angeles. He loves to play guitar, crush baseballs, watch movies, and hang out with his girlfriend and two dogs, Mikey and Scout.
If you’ve ever worked with people who were happy and collaborative, you know what good morale feels like. Work is a little easier for everyone when the vibes are good...
There’s a noticeable difference between work environments where people enjoy their lives versus where they don’t. Some circumstances can’t be controlled — like a...
We’ve all been there right? Having the worst day of your life while stuck at work, and it drags on and on, and next thing you know, you’re the office curmudgeon with...
Investing in people—it’s a surefire way to either take teams to new levels of performance or waste everyone’s time. The difference? Effective investment of...
Every expert used to be a beginner. Despite a few stories of prodigies and savants, the rest of us are condemned to travel the long, bumpy road of experience. If we’re...
Have you ever sat down to a one-on-one with your boss, heard a shallow compliment, and started to think, “Oh boy, here it comes”? You’re not alone.
It wasn’t...
No matter one’s position at a company, everyone can have great ideas about ways to make things better at work. What most people don’t expect, however, is the...
These days, there’s a lot of talk about quiet quitting where employees hunt for a new gig incognito so they can land something better (even if that means no job at...
Leadership. The topic everyone knows a little about but can’t quite agree on. We’ve all had a great boss at some point in our lives, but pinning down what it was we...
Are you feeling like you just can’t work anymore? Is your productivity tanking because your brain shuts down every time you’re faced with a task? Do you vacillate...
Everyone has a limit to how much they can produce. Some reach that point earlier than others, but once walking into work becomes a challenge of willpower and...
There’s nothing like revealing your political views to coworkers to really get the blood pumping. It is, without a doubt, one of the most exciting and inflammatory...
Imagine you’re daydreaming about visiting China when out of the blue, your company asks if you’re available to make a business trip over there. Could it be? Your...
To say the absolute least, the pandemic changed a lot about how we work. As safety precautions turned lively offices into wastelands of empty chairs, people started...
If you work a job long enough, you eventually come to expect a salary increase, just as most companies expect to give you one. But what happens when the raise you...
Life is a series of choices, and sometimes those choices take place at work. Since no amount of training can prepare you for all the different situations you’ll face,...
In a perfect world, we’d have plenty of time to get everything done that we need to. We could take breaks and eat lunch without negatively impacting our productivity,...
Have you ever found yourself sitting in the parking lot dreading going to work? Does thinking about work make you physically ill? Did you ever consider quitting a job...
Close your eyes and imagine a comfortable pair of shoes. What do you see? Running shoes? Flip flops? Dress shoes? If you had to buy comfy shoes right now, your shopping...
Conducting a job interview is kinda like golf: it looks easy, but you’ll waste a lot of time if you don’t know the basics. Since the 1900s, the job interview process...
