Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Julia Korn writes about leadership and career development. In her new book, Talk to Me Nice, workplace consultant, speaker and ...

You’re leading a meeting. You’ve prepared. You’ve presented your strategy clearly. Heads are nodding. No one pushes back. You assume everyone’s on board. Two weeks later, your team misses the deadline ...

In the aftermath of widespread layoffs across industries, the concept of trust at work is under new pressure. As companies operate with leaner teams and ask more of the employees who remain, being ...

In a time when CEOs laugh their way through layoffs, while robotics and AI loom large on the horizon as the future employee, it might be ironic or Orwellian when bosses wonder if a worker is ...

AI is now a routine part of workplace communication, with most professionals using tools like ChatGPT and Gemini. A study of over 1,000 professionals shows that while AI makes managers’ messages more ...

Every work day, the average American business person receives or sends over 120 emails, deals with upwards of 30 text messages, engages in six calls or chats, attends at least one meeting, and juggles ...

Trust is a risky business, a “calculated exposure” to the behaviors and influence of another (Hancock et al., 2011). Yet, as Hobbes (1651) contended, trust is one of the essential ingredients that ...