You Have One Job
The “you had one job” memes never disappoint. They provide some of the best laughs because they are absurd—yet laced with truth. The expression is the perfect response to seeing such blunders as handrails installed in the wrong direction of a stairwell, mislabeled...
How to Handle Being Betrayed by a Teammate
“Beware of the Ides of March.” The soothsayer offers this warning to Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play of the same name. Caesar fails to heed the warning and is later assassinated on the Roman Senate floor. Before dying, Caesar utters the equally memorable, “Et tu...
Your Emergency Is Our Emergency
A red flag goes up whenever I walk into an office and see a sign hanging on the wall that reads: Your problem does not equate to my emergency. This sign makes me cringe because it is a clear indication of a me-first/team-second culture. I’ve seen several different...
Being an Agent of Change
(*If you read any of my blogs the whole way to the end, let this be the one. I promise it will be worth it. Hint: a celebration giveaway is involved.) This is my two hundredth blog entry. That I have written that many entries is almost unfathomable to me!!! Four...
Prefer to listen instead of read?
Explore the art of being a good teammate with audio selections from Lance Loya’s popular Teammate Tuesday blog.
