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 | 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...
by Rachel Medanic | Jan 6, 2021 | change management, culture change, Leadership, society
In his commencement speech to the class of 2020*, Obama poignantly said, “It’s [the global pandemic] woken a lot of young people up to the fact that the old ways of doing things just don’t work. That it doesn’t matter how much money you make if everyone around you is...
