“How can I improve my staff’s morale?” is one of the most common questions amongst managers and business owners, and it makes sense: we all want our team to be happy not just because we value their humanity, but because happier people tend to be more productive and make fewer mistakes.

While we profess to value curiosity as a culture, far too often we consider practicing curiosity to be almost self-indulgent. We conflate it with navel-gazing, day-dreaming, or knowledge for its own sake rather than something truly practical–and that’s a crying shame.

Sometimes it feels like life can simply spiral out of our control, and that we have no say in what happens around us or what influences our responses. While there’s a fundamental truth to the idea that we can’t control the world around us or all of our circumstances, and there’s a certain comfort ...

Nobody likes to feel stressed, and nobody likes to be around stressed people–after all, it seems like when someone around us is stressed out, we can’t help but start to feel that way ourselves. Believe it or not, this isn’t just your imagination–it’s a real evolutionary advantage.

How do we find success, while avoiding failure? If that sounds like a question that’s almost too broad to have a good answer, don’t worry–you’re not alone. It’s not a question with a singular answer, but it’s a useful question that guides just about every person (and organization!) on Earth.

Self-awareness is one of those skills that most of us think we have, but very few of us actually do–this isn’t just a truism; it’s backed by statistics: surveys have shown that nearly 100% of us consider ourselves self-aware, but in reality, only 10-15% of us actually practice this skill on a ...

Over the past few years, more and more people and organizations have had their eyes opened to the extreme power of simple gratitude. No longer just the domain of pre-Thanksgiving Dinner share sessions, scientific research has been showing that those of us who intentionally make an effort to think ...

Let’s not mince words here: for countless managers, executives, and professional team leaders, the move to remote work during the pandemic caused them to pull their hair out in frustration and fear. And when it became clear that work-from-home wouldn’t just go away, this caused even further ...

In the past few years, remote work went from the domain of contractors and a special perk from generous companies to something that almost every office worker has experience with, and many are still doing–whether part-time or for their entire job schedule. And while remote work has a multitude of ...

Remote work became almost every office professional’s day-to-day experience a few years ago, and to this day, many of us are still working either fully remote or with hybrid schedules. For a lot of people, this is a huge benefit–less time wasted stuck in traffic, more flexibility to get all your ...

Over the past 3 years (let’s not mince words–since the start of the COVID pandemic), most of us have been thrown into the waters of remote work, and if office building occupancy rates are any indication, many of us are still working remotely to this day. When most–or even all–of your interactions ...

We talk a lot about one of the core concepts of the FISH! Philosophy, which is Be There. Be There is all about showing up for our team and our coworkers, treating them like real humans with real successes, challenges, and emotions–both positive and negative. By being there for others in the ...