by Rachel Medanic | May 29, 2023 | culture change, employee engagement, human centered design, internal communications, organizational behavior
As we face the overwhelm of today’s work reality and a rainstorm of challenges, companies that grasp the overwhelming (untapped, perhaps?) value of employee intelligence have a unique opportunity to create better human-centered design outcomes. It’s time to shift...
by Rachel Medanic | Mar 23, 2023 | career, change management, collaboration, creativity, human centered design
2023 marks my 10-year anniversary as a consultant. My hope is that these career reflections will be helpful to the so.many.people who are in transition in this bold, bright year called 2023. I hope these resonate with how you may be feeling—because there is nothing...
by Rachel Medanic | Feb 16, 2023 | collaboration, creativity, employee engagement, organizational behavior
Image by Sharon Pittaway Creativity is an essential skill for a variety of professions. For internal communicators, its a skill to help find the right approaches and messages to resonate and stick with employees. My colleague Daniel Méndez tells me how he used music...
by Rachel Medanic | Sep 20, 2022 | change management, Leadership, organizational development, reimagine work
As companies reimagine work, there are powerful forces continually impacting how we craft that new future. The employee voice has risen in power, and for many the workplace will never go totally back to the way it was. We continue to emerge from a global circumstance...
by Rachel Medanic | Apr 17, 2021 | change management, Leadership, organizational behavior, organizational development
“Does this spark joy?” was the question that helped Marie Condo’s methods rise to pop culture prominence. Around me I noticed people responding by examining what was in their closets. I had already been thinking about closets because of what I was observing in my work...