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Hiring & Leading: Why This Was Never Just an HR Function

Hiring and leading aren’t HR functions. Well, they shouldn’t be anyway. If you want a genuinely high-performing team, it can’t be about compliance: filling out the right forms, staying…
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Miche Rayment

3–4 minutes

August 4, 2026
Abundance vs. Scarcity | The Thinking Styles that may Quietly be in the way of getting things done

Several times this week I found myself talking about a filter I use often, Abundance vs. Scarcity. Over the years of building healthy support networks and teams for business…
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Miche Rayment

3–4 minutes

July 29, 2026
Resetting Expectations in an Avalanche

I’m not comparing my kids and my parenting relationship to the employer/employee relationship… Alright. I guess I am.
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Miche Rayment

5–7 minutes

July 22, 2026
Breathe Together | What High-Performing Teams Are Actually Doing

About a year ago, I released a paper called The Culture of High-Performing Teams. In it, I sketched out four components I kept seeing in the best teams I’ve…
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Miche Rayment

2–3 minutes

July 13, 2026
The Hiring Team Member Nobody Prepared You to Be

You’ve Been Asked to Help Hire Someone. Now what? Seriously, being asked to be part of a hiring team is a big deal. It might not feel that way,…
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Miche Rayment

4–6 minutes

July 6, 2026
How to Stay Sane and Work with Others

Four Lenses for Designing Better Work Relationships Lately, one question keeps landing in my inbox: “What should I do about this relationship problem at work?” We all have that…
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Miche Rayment

4–6 minutes

June 29, 2026
Breaking It Down | Boundaries

Figure out when to make commitments and gracefully say no when you have to. There’s a powerful truth floating around the workplace: Where there are unclear expectations, there is…
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Miche Rayment

3–5 minutes

June 22, 2026
Culture Roundtable Discussion

Where: Cahoots, 206 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI Date/time: June 24, 11 am-1pm A shout out to business owners or operators who want to do their best by…
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Miche Rayment

1–2 minutes

June 16, 2026
What Am I Even Supposed to Be Doing? | A (Mostly Painless) Guide to Managing Up

Let’s be honest: some of the biggest red flags in a workplace don’t show up in metrics, they show up in meetings, side chats, and Slack messages that begin…
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Miche Rayment

3–5 minutes

June 15, 2026

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