Carson Tate is the founder and managing partner of Working Simply, Inc., a business consulting firm that partners with organizations, business leaders and employees to enhance workplace productivity, foster employee engagement, and build personal and professional legacies. Working Simply has served leading global brands, including AbbVie, Delta Airlines, Deloitte, FedEx, Wells Fargo, Chick-fil-A, and Lowe’s.
The author of the best-selling, Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style [Penguin Portfolio, 2015], her newest title, Own It. Love It. Make It Work. [McGraw-Hill] and its companion workbook of the same name, will be released October 2020. Carson’s views have been included in top-tier media including Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider, CBS Money Watch, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review blog, The New York Times, USA Today, Working Mother and more.
More than 15 million U.S. workers have quit their jobs since April 2021. Companies are responding with well-intentioned quick fixes, such as increasing pay or financial benefits or offering retention or “thank you” bonuses. However, employees are still leaving. If your employees are breaking up with you, the first step is to understand why. In...
Do you experience the “Sunday night scaries,” dreading the thought of Monday morning? Or hit snooze on your alarm so many times you lose count because you don’t want to get out of bed and go to work? Overwhelmed, overstretched, and just over it, you find yourself caught in a vicious cycle of work sucks....
You took a powerful step forward to redefine your work and make it work for you. Then you hit a roadblock. Maybe you don’t have the formal power to change your job, or your boss put a pin in your efforts. Maybe you do have the autonomy to redefine your work. However, your own expectations...