Rebuilding Trust: A Strategic PR Response Plan for Astronomer
Rebuilding Trust: A Strategic PR Response Plan for Astronomer, Byron, and Cabot - Release a brief, fact-based public statement within 48 hours. Avoid emotional language or defensiveness. Clarify what is known, what is being reviewed, and what Astronomer stands for.
Audit Your People Strategy in 5 Questions
In a study of 1,000 companies by Zenger & Folkman (2019), only 27% of leaders were rated as effective coaches. Coaching and decision-making are not soft skills. They are teachable, behavioral capabilities with real outcomes.
Succession Planning Without the Buzzwords: What Actually Works in Preparing Future Leaders
A meta-analysis published in Personnel Psychology found that internal leadership development programs correlated positively with both individual performance and organizational outcomes, especially when combined with experiential learning and structured feedback (Collins & Holton, 2004).
Distributed but Not Disconnected: Building Trust, Accountability, and Focus Across Remote Teams
Behavioral insights and operational tips for building trust, accountability, and focus across hybrid or remote teams.
The Manager Bottleneck: Fixing Middle Leadership with Science
Here’s how to equip middle managers with decision-making tools, not just soft skills.
First-Year, First Impact: Rethinking New Grad Development
How structured learning paths, cohort-based onboarding, and early wins accelerate growth for recent graduates.
Mentorship That Moves the Needle: How to Design Programs that Work
Why most mentorship programs fail — and how to design one that measurably improves learning, retention, and engagement.
The Science of Strong Teams: What Actually Works
When cohesion and psychological safety work together, teams become significantly more capable of navigating uncertainty, integrating diverse perspectives, and executing complex tasks. A 2021 meta-analysis by Frazier et al. found that psychological safety was strongly correlated with performance, especially when teams had a high degree of interdependence and were tasked with problem-solving.
Importantly, cohesion can support the development of psychological safety by fostering trust and mutual understanding. At the same time, psychological safety can accelerate cohesion by encouraging open communication and vulnerability. These two dynamics reinforce each other, creating what researchers call a virtuous cycle of performance (Newman et al., 2017).