There is no better time than the present to assess, re-evaluate, and change some metrics and ways of getting things done in your work life. Here is a mid-year career checklist that covers some areas you might want to consider. [Read more…]
Succession Planning — An Essential Part of Leadership
Why do so many smart leaders become avoidant when it comes to succession planning — anticipating and strategizing potential openings, shifts, new leadership, management, and functional contributor roles within the organization?
Here are some reasons why every organization, team, department, and solopreneurs needs to dedicate time and brainpower to succession planning. [Read more…]
Accepter, Passer, Revealer, which Ideal Employee Are You?
Do you know co-workers who answer e-mails at midnight, return texts at 6 am, and make no distinction between Wednesday and Saturday afternoons? Those individuals who management likes to consider ideal employees. Is it possible you are that person?
In a Harvard Business Review article, “Managing the High Intensity Workplace,” authors Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan write about their research on how people, in a variety of fields, deal with the demands of a global, 24/7, immediate response required, world of work. [Read more…]
10 Ways Successful People Manage Time and Their Lives
I am fortunate to coach some very smart, successful people. They have high native intelligence and excellent educations, and they have trained themselves to work effectively and efficiently in everything they do.
Here are some tips from successful people who know how to be creative, innovative, and productive with less stress and more satisfaction than most. [Read more…]
How Successful Leaders and Managers Get Things Done
How do successful leaders get more done and manage to complete important work? How do they keep their priorities straight, vision clear, as well as have a personal life?
Through some casual research collecting information from my coaching clients, business and personal networking; reading blogs and articles, I have found some frequently applied practices or behaviors. [Read more…]
Want to be Happy at Work? Live Like a Dane
Helen Russell was “living the life” by many people’s standards — successful in her career as an editor, happily married, and living in a dynamic city — London. She was happy at work and happy at home.
When her husband was offered a transfer to a rural part of Denmark they found a need to radically change their lives. Did she know she was moving to a country whose citizens often report being some of the happiest people on the planet? No. [Read more…]
Should I Make Friends at Work?
There was an article by University of Pennsylvania Professor, Adam Grant, titled “Friends at Work? Not So Much.” He describes a steady decline, particularly in the United States, in the number of people who have or want friends in their workplace. Personal life glimpses such as family day gatherings, inviting the life partners to the holiday party, or even “bring your child to work day” has dwindled. Primarily because many were not interested in doing these activities and/or knowing more about their coworkers. [Read more…]
It’s Time to Ask, “What is Your Moral Bucket List?”
If you are a regular reader of mine (thank you!), you know I spend most of my time and words talking about the value of goals, hitting and stretching targets, building that resume and career. This is my professional side; an aspect of me but far from a complete picture and surely not the only way I want to be perceived. [Read more…]
The Value of Work
Work doesn’t provide just the means of acquiring the basic necessities of life, though that is critical. It enhances the soul and the brain.
When I refer to work, I include all types of employment — salaried, commissioned, hourly, permanent, temporary, and freelance. I also add volunteering; military service, and last but not least, children. For play is the work of children. [Read more…]
How Not to Be too Busy and Feel Good About Yourself
I recently read an article in The New York Times where the author quoted an article from Science about findings from a recent research project. The purpose of the study was to see what people would do to avoid introspection. The scientists believed many people have become so wedded to the idea that busy, too busy, is good. They would do almost anything not to have the quiet isolation that introspection requires. In some cases, subjects were willing to endure shocks just to be able to have something to distract them from being completely still. [Read more…]
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