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.
Greetings folks! Here’s some of the work life stories and sites that caught my eye in our WorkLife Nation this week and abroad. Hot this week: stress, career training, jobs, workplace health, working dads, the economy, and health care. Chicago Tribune: Career Education showing signs of recovery Cleveland Jewish News: The business of healthcare and…
As I’ve written before, we have essentially become a WorkLife Nation. A new perspective on work/life culture is emerging. It’s a new, multi-faceted vision of how we work, live and thrive in a world that is presenting difficult challenges, forcing us to embrace more flexibility at work and in our family lives.
This lack of confidence in management and company values only perpetuates poor morale, thus creating a toxic workplace. The lack of communication then fuels consternation, water cooler gossip and general bad vibes between the rank and file.
What about the brand called YOU? In our WorkLife Nation, we toggle between our living and working experience so frequently, that our unique offerings as individuals and professionals seem to get lost in the mix.
t was like a little pebble rolling down Mount Everest. It turned out to be a heck of a snowball and eventually an avalanche of commentary. Michael Phelps was nailed for smoking something he arguably shouldn’t have, but there’s a slew of support for the gold medal winner.
It’s that time of the week when we wind down and reflect on the stories impacting our working and living experience. Here’s some of the biggies that galvanized us, and some of the more obscure stories that got me thinking.
ost Bloody-Monday, the slashing of jobs is expected to continue at a pace that might rival the layoffs numbers the U-S saw in the early 1980′s. Change is certainly the order of the day. And as just about every Industrial Organizational Psychology blog out there quotes, “It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” (No, Darwin did not say it, at least not officially)
Turns out the prediction was on target. Last January a number of work life trackers voiced concern, along with the rest of the world about the job market. In my post in January of 2008 entitled, ‘It’s job security, Stupid’ , I wrote that growing unemployment data, the slowing economy, lingering fallout from the sub-prime crisis and outsourcing due to expanded technology would put a mighty dent into our future job market. It wasn’t brain surgery.
We leave 2008 with some of the most progressive initiatives toward the elusive quest for work life balance – in the face of a cacophony of disheartening workplace news. But even with unemployment at record highs amidst recession, there is much to look forward to in our time of “change.”
