Having trouble coaching an employee? Read these seven warning signals to see if they are actually coachable.
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Long dreary corridors, impersonal waiting rooms, the smell of disinfectant — hospitals tend to be anonymous and depressing places. Even if you’re just there as a visitor, you’re bound to wonder, “How can my friend recover in such an awful place? Will I get out of here without catching an infection?”
The Rotterdam Eye Hospital, a leading eye hospital in The Netherlands, transformed its patients’ experiences by initiating creative interior designs and looking at their hospital through the patients eyes. By doing so, patient intake rose 47%.
Source: How Design Thinking Turned One Hospital into a Bright and Comforting Place
This was not your best week. Something didn’t go right. What do you do afterward? You might go to a bar with friends, talk to your spouse, or call your mom. But those are just delay tactics.
Try this exercise in counterfactual thinking and see if it helps.
Source: 5 Steps to Help Yourself Recover from a Setback
I love the work of ANESE CAVANAUGH who has a regular column for Inc.com. This is another great post, powerful and thought-provoking.
Don’t let the simplicity of these 5 questions fool you, dig deep, there’s gold waiting.
Source: 5 Questions (and “Answers”) to Increase Your Leadership Confidence Now
We all get the ‘blah’s’ sometimes when it comes to work. As an employee, you have three choices: Accept what you’ve been given, change what you’ve been given, or leave what you’ve been given. We want to focus on the second option. If you feel underused and undervalued, you can do something about it.
Source: Feeling Blah About Work? Don’t Blame Your Boss, Get Engaged
Duncan Coombe with the Harvard Business Review reflects on an emotion that’s too often overlooked in business and asks; “If just about every person on the planet has at some point spoken about the centrality of love to well-being, why do we hear so little about it in the context of work?”
Replacing an employee is incredibly expensive: on average, the cost of replacing a worker is, at minimum, 30% of that employee’s annual salary. This number increases depending on the type, level, or tenure of the employee in question.
Do you believe or disbelieve in the theory that “everyone is replaceable?”
Source: When Long Time Employees Quit Avoiding the Knowledge Vacuum
Looking to boost your resilience at work? This Harvard Business Review article articulates well how to do so.
Get off the monotonous treadmill of your job, and seek a different running path of meaning on your journey toward career satisfaction.
“I just want to be happy.” We have all said it at one time or another. The wish for happiness is one of our most widely held goals in life.
Take a moment to read this Fast Company article to help with your search for happiness.
This is an excellent article about how to keep your head when everyone else seems to be losing theirs.