Using neuroscience to boost your brain has been all the rage over the last few years, but now leadership experts are taking the science a step further.
If one relies on external influences to measure one’s worth on a daily basis, we’re all in a lot of trouble. Ultimately, an individual has to come to terms with, determine and embrace one’s own value.
It’s part of the Accenture Media Exchange – a program which encourages employees to put their creativity to work while addressing inside company issues.
We’ve heard it and seen it on all those inspiration websites – M.K. Gandhi’s quote, “We must be the change we wish to see.” But how often do the words pass anyone’s lips in the workplace let alone consider the concept?
Cookies anyone? Getting back to basics, a TV journalist friend who has plenty of people to be thankful to this holiday season, (editors, photographers etc.) is doing away with gifts of wine this year. Instead she’ll dole out adorable cookie tins, filled with the real homemade stuff. I think she’s ahead of the curve on this one.
At about 10:30 last night after the Dow suffered its historic 777 point drop, I spoke with a friend who is a therapist. He was at the local high school track and intended to run off all the panic, anxiety, and fear that his clients had brought his way.
The heartbreaking video of a psychiatric patient dying on the floor at a Brooklyn, New York hospital has echoed across the internet in the last 24 hours. The video shows the patient collapsing on the floor. As she collapses she is ignored. Hospital workers and security did nothing as she was lying there and eventually died.
The four-day work week is spreading across the nation like a wildfire. But this blaze is being sparked by frustration about the high cost of living and is fueled by high gas prices. Government entities like Macomb County in Michigan, and companies like IBM are taking on the four-day work week to help employees battle soaring gas prices.
Caught in the whirlwind of frenetic conversation while reviewing 2007 with a few pals, a colleague of mine decided that she, a mother of three young children, would make a monumental change to impact her WorkLife Strategy in 2008. “I really want to work more in 2008, and I’m putting myself out there,” she told me enthusiastically. “I’m going to attract more freelance work. Period.”
What’s the best way to assess worklife needs heading into 2008?
Judy’s Top Ten WorkLife Strategies for 2008:
During a typical week I might commute from home to a variety of different newsrooms in the metropolitan area, a few times a week. That drive might have me on the road for as long 90 minutes. But it’s a hop, skip and a jump compared to my travel to Florida or California for a few days to work. End result – I work where I want and when I want so I can sustain a certain lifestyle which includes family, my volunteer work, and a serene homelife near a beautiful lake, just outside New York City.
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