Category: kendra@lmk
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taking a leave
Harvard Business Review recently posted the article “The Case for Sabbaticals and How to Take a Successful One” (https://hbr.org/2025/02/the-case-for-sabbaticals-and-how-to-take-a-successful-one). This article makes a compelling case for leave and the type of leave to consider based on your situation. Reading this article reminded me of my own experience. Years ago, I took a 3-month sabbatical from…
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return to office
In honor of April Fool’s Day, LMK presents a quick guide to supporting never working from home again. Return to Office is an ongoing debate within workplaces and between leadership and employees. Managers claim employees are less productive while working from home, while employees report higher productivity and more meaningful hours spent working while working…
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managing resistance within your team // kendra @ lmk
The more you manage teams of people, the more personalities you come across, and the more likely it is that the people who work for you will not “fall in line” or comply with your ideas and direction one hundred percent of the time. Change Management is the practice of managing people through a change…
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inheriting a team // kendra@lmk
When you become a team lead or manager, it’s common to be appointed to lead an existing team or a team that someone else has hired. This is often the case if you step into a role at a new company or on a new project. You did not hire or choose the people who…
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chaotic leadership
In honor of April Fool’s Day, LMK presents a quick guide to chaotic leadership. Chaotic Leadership is the latest in workplace leadership and management. It brings together components of traditional leadership styles such as servant leadership, strategic leadership, and coaching leadership – and disregards everything effective, productive, and inspirational in the spirit of unpredictability and…
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the gaslighter // kendra@lmk
The workplace requires what I call – “personality navigation.” It comes with the territory of any workplace, or really any forum where people exist. However, there is no excuse for an office bully or manipulator. The workplace should be a psychologically safe place. Unfortunately, it often is not.
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the insecure boss + micromanager // kendra@lmk
The fact is, we aren’t going to always get along with everyone we work with, and we aren’t always going to get along with our boss. Even the most amiable person on the planet (who I am not at all claiming to be) is bound to run into some personality conflicts in the workplace.
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