Face and Embrace with Grace With the overarching context of COVID still very much in our lives, people who even have a fairly solid approach to life are experiencing deeper levels of anxiety and stress. This is just related to everything going on in their lives. One of the biggest struggles right now is the context of loss. Everything became difficult from normal social life to health concerns. It became…
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What’s Your Idea of Work Life Balance? Regardless of your definition, work life balance importance has never been more imperative as it is these days. The increase in remote work, longer hours for many of us, and working parents trying to manage at home learning for their children have contributed to mental health challenges for leaders and their staff. Many of us have learned to power through, push on to…
Read moreWork Life Balance: 3 Simple Tips to Ingratiate Work Life Harmony Life is dynamic. It depends on where you are in your own life as to what you’re going to be facing and working through. Whether it's current times or even future times, you're going to have a different level of challenge with balancing things. Indeed, it's important to think about those priorities and do a deeper dive. We need…
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What Is It? An internal compass is a steady and true guide that lets you know if you’re on the right track – a north star that’s unique to you. Your internal compass guides and reaffirms your words, actions and responses. When you’re on course, you feel lighter and happier. You feel aligned internally and externally. There is no (or minimal) friction between your thoughts, emotions and actions. One might…
Read moreEmployee relationship management takes intention and effort, but it pays off. The workplace retains a central role in many people’s lives. With the average person spending more time at work than on any other daily activity, it is vital that individuals within any organization feel connected and supported by peers, subordinates, and leaders. ~ Positive Psychology During these exceptional times when many people are working remotely, maintaining good working relationships…
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What is a Growth Mindset? First, we want to think about ‘mindset’. A mindset is a mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations. Based on the research of Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford, there are two basic types of mindsets. Deficit or Fixed Mindset (the way we’ve been wired) - leads to a desire to look smart, thus a tendency to avoid challenges and obstacles;…
Read moreWarp Speed: The New Norm ~ Reina Bach with Dr. Windy Dryer - professor, author, speaker an all-around great guy ~ Leaders today might feel like they’re aboard the USS Enterprise traveling at warp speed on some mystical episode of Star Trek. Decisions, challenges, opportunities, change, markets, politics, requirements are coming at us like space debris or unexplored planets and galaxies. To maintain warp speed in the rapid, ever-changing climate…
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