Workplace & Teams News
Expert commentary on workplace & teams communication events and trends.
3 min audio How to Respond When Executives Interrupt You
Senior executives frequently talk over, dismiss, or flat-out ignore colleagues with less organizational power. This is not a new problem. What is new is the growing conversation about how professionals can respond effectively in the moment, without torching their careers or surrendering their credibility. The stakes are real: every time you let it happen without a response, you train the room to keep doing it.
3 min audio Why People Avoid Writing (And What It Really Means)
A communication educator, drawing on years of teaching leadership and storytelling, challenged a common assumption about letter writing. Most people blame their avoidance of personal letters on a lack of time. This educator argues the real barrier is something deeper and more psychological. The finding cuts to the heart of how people relate to putting honest, personal communication on paper.
4 min audio Can a Robot Teach You to Handle Angry People?
La Trobe University built a robot named Fletch that simulates an emotionally charged, frustrated parent. Student teachers practice difficult conversations with Fletch before they ever set foot in a real school. The goal is simple: get the reps in while the stakes are low, so you don't fall apart when the stakes are high.
4 min audio AI Is Breaking Workplace Communication. Here's the Fix.
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a productivity tool sitting quietly in the background. It is actively reshaping how coworkers interact, collaborate, and relate to one another on the job. As AI takes on more tasks, the human dynamics around those tasks are shifting in ways that most workplaces have not prepared for and most employees have not been coached to handle.
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4 min audio What Companies Get Wrong About AI Communication
American companies are scrambling to hold onto employee trust as artificial intelligence gets rolled into daily work. Workers are skeptical, resistant, and in some cases openly hostile. Companies are responding with internal communication campaigns designed to smooth the transition. Whether those campaigns are working depends almost entirely on how honestly leadership is speaking to its people.
4 min audio Airbus Return-to-Office Failure: A Communication Breakdown
Airbus pushed employees to spend four days a week in the office, and workers in Spain pushed back hard enough to force a retreat. The company has now softened its stance, walking back the mandate after staff protests. Notably, aircraft production continued without interruption throughout the dispute, which raises an obvious question about who actually had the leverage here.
4 min audio What Every Manager Gets Wrong in Performance Reviews
Small Business Trends published a guide offering seven templates for year-end performance reviews, aimed at helping managers structure feedback more effectively. The piece focuses on practical formats and language choices designed to make evaluations clearer and more useful. It reflects a growing recognition that most performance reviews fail not because managers lack opinions, but because they lack the words to deliver them well.
4 min audio Guardiola Walker Fallout: What It Teaches About Conflict
A documentary covering Pep Guardiola's final two seasons at Manchester City has exposed a serious conflict between the manager and former captain Kyle Walker. The film captures what appears to be a genuine breakdown in the relationship between two high-profile figures at one of the world's most scrutinized football clubs. Whatever the specifics of their argument, it is now public property.
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3 min audio Why Most Performance Reviews Fail to Change Anything
Performance reviews remain one of the most dreaded rituals in the workplace. Most managers walk in unprepared, deliver vague praise or criticism, and walk out having changed nothing. A recent piece from Small Business Trends tackled the problem head-on, arguing that reviews fail not because of bad intentions but because of bad communication structure. The piece called for clearer goals, more consistent feedback loops, and a shift away from annual ambushes.
4 min audio What Remote Work Reveals About Your Communication Skills
Remote work is no longer an experiment. In 2025, HR teams across industries are actively retooling their management strategies to address the specific challenges of leading people they rarely see in person. The focus has shifted from logistics (home offices, video tools) to something harder: keeping distributed teams connected, accountable, and actually communicating with each other.
4 min audio Why Your Remote Team Stopped Listening to You
Companies managing remote workers in 2025 are scrambling to find HR strategies that actually hold teams together across distance and time zones. The conversation around remote management has shifted from "how do we survive this" to "how do we get genuinely good at it." Organizations that cracked the code share one thing in common: they stopped treating remote management as a logistics problem and started treating it as a communication problem.
4 min audio How Natasha Frangos Communicates Inclusion Right
HaysMac managing partner Natasha Frangos recently earned a spot on INvolve's Empower Role Model List 2026, a recognition reserved for leaders driving meaningful ethnic diversity progress. In a follow-up interview with Consultancy, she spoke about what genuine workplace inclusion requires from those at the top. Her core argument: real change does not happen through policy alone. It demands sustained leadership and visible commitment.
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Can a Robot Teach You to Handle Angry People?
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One Bad Quarter Can Erase a Year of Reputation Work
AI Is Breaking Workplace Communication. Here's the Fix.
