As Halloween approaches and costume plans come together, Rachel Rubin shares some common disguises masking business and technology challenges. These include low adoption, perfect metric attainment, and immediate agreement.

Kim Ehrman describes four practical steps for team members to cover each other well during time away from work. These include sharing transparent lists and resources, early practice and intentional overlap, as well as setting clear expectations and authority.

Aarushi Gupta describes her spring internship with FlexPoint, including the process of getting to know a new team, contributing to client and internal efforts, and learning a lot along the way!

Kim Ehrman shares how guidance given on writing an important email relates to several powerful business concepts that come in unlikely pairs, including paradoxical leadership skills and featured pairings in the Agile manifesto.

Henry Howard shares lessons learned from his time at FlexPoint, starting with joining as a new team member last summer, finding a sense of belonging, and enjoying the collective growth of his team, company, and personal perspective.

Aarushi Gupta shares the benefits of employee engagement, proven methods for fostering it, and how she’s experienced these topics through her internships with Apple and FlexPoint Consulting.

Kim Ehrman shares how to build -- and rebuild -- trust within professional teams, leveraging Brené Brown’s BRAVING framework from Dare to Lead and Charles Feltman’s four distinctions of trust from The Thin Book of Trust.

Kim Ehrman connects her middle school band experience to talent management principles. She concludes that their success stemmed from having an inspiring leader who encouraged them to have a growth mindset, along with exemplifying GRPI.

FlexPoint Consulting Founder & CEO Michael Daehne explains what employee experience is, why leaders of all organizations should care about EX, and how you can successfully navigate employee experience transformation.