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Date posted: 24th May 2021

24th May 2021

How to return to the workplace (or not) – in a post covid world – Lance Secretan

How to return to the workplace (or not) – in a post covid world – Lance Secretan

This snippet is part of our Ebook How to return to the workplace (or not) – in a post covid world.  Advice and suggestions from our Top 101 influencers. You can download the full eBook with all the advice here.


Lance Secretan, CEO and Founder, The Secretan Center Inc.

Employees are tired of the endless emails and the constant exhorting to be smarter, faster, better business builders, more tech savvy, and other tactical and mechanical aids to greater productivity. As we emerge from the pandemic, I believe we need a different sort of leader—a leader with compassion, empathy, emotional capacity and depth, and our employees want to be inspired and to know that they are safe, supported, encouraged and—yes even this—loved. They don’t need skill training—they are yearning for inspiration—they already know what to do. A recent blog of mine speaks to that issue.