All posts by: Shamis Pitts
PLC Newsletter: How to Design Your In-Person Team Time
How to Design Your In-Person Team Time The PLC is a small yet mighty team that has been fully remote since the business started in 2019. In Fall 2022, one team member made a firm request – Can we please meet in-person? I thought about it and agreed. While...
PLC Newsletter: How to navigate the Return-to-Office merry-go-round
How to navigate the Return-to-Office merry-go-round Return-to-Office policies and practices continue to evolve, causing happiness for some and friction for others. The topic has taken over my news feed as companies attempt to get it right, but there is no “one right way.” However, while every organization is unique,...
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How I Got Here When I began my career 25 years ago, I was a human resource management consultant specializing in compensation plan design. While my team was often engaged to figure out how to pay people, during the discovery phase it was often apparent that there were other...
How To Listen Effectively To Succeed Personally And Professionally: An Interview With Doug Noll
The article, Shamis Pitts of Pitts Leadership Consulting (PLC) On How To Listen Effectively To Succeed Personally And Professionally, An Interview with Doug Noll, originally appeared in Authority Magazine. https://medium.com/authority-magazine Copyright © March 2023. Reprinted with permission. It’s hard to be a good listener. We are programmed to...
Reimagining the Job Search: Prioritizing Work Environment before Role
The article, Reimagining the Job Search: Prioritizing Work Environment before Role, by Shamis Pitts, originally appeared in NCDA’s web magazine, Career Convergence, at www.ncda.org. Copyright © February 2023. Reprinted with permission. Job searches often focus on finding the best job fit without substantive consideration for the best organizational...
HR Jolt: Wellbeing Practices: 5 Tips for You and Your Team
HR Jolt – Q2 2021 Edition Wellbeing Practices: 5 Tips for You & Your Team by Shamis Pitts April 27, 2021 Many people like to say that the universal truths are death and taxes. These days, I like to say that there was a lot going on pre-COVID-19, there...
My 2020 Wellbeing Campaign: Key Takeaways
Never in a million years when I launched my wellbeing campaign on January 1, 2020, could I have imagined what was to come. With COVID-19 ravaging the world, the overdue racial reckoning, record devastation from climate change and perpetual political turmoil, wellbeing became one of the most desired and...
How to Balance Autonomy and Authenticity to Support Positive Team Dynamics
I will never forget the day I was sitting in a leadership class in business school and I had a major “aha” moment. My professor was taking us through Dr. Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats® framework, which separates thinking into six distinct categories. Each category has its own...