This is a very useful list. Hang on to it! Even if you don’t need it now, chances are, there will be a time that you do… If not for you, for someone you know.
The Top 75 Websites For Your Career – Forbes.
Archive for Leaders – Page 21
When hope is based on real-world experience, knowledge and tangible and intangible data, it results in trust, which is necessary to implementing any strategy. Without faith in the people, processes and technologies involved, how can we achieve anything? Hope recognizes the reality that failure happens, success is not assured, the laws of physics don’t change and prudence is needed to discern when to persevere — and when to pivot. Hope doesn’t demarcate a linear path, but it does guide us through twists and turns. Hope views the glass as half full, not half empty. Hope supports realistic optimism, a necessary component of success.
Hope Is a Strategy (Well, Sort Of) – Deborah Mills-Scofield – Harvard Business Review.
This is a high bar… but what a great way to end the week. I would suggest you keep this article around and use it as a measure from time to time as you work on getting closer… and staying closer to this ideal place in your work.
8 Signs You’ve Found Your Life’s Work | Fast Company.
I’d love your comments on this article, “8 Signs You’ve Found Your Life’s Work”
What are your experiences with getting there, and, staying there?
For certain emotions — particularly happiness and anger — only a few hours of strengths usage are needed to maximize one’s chance of having a good day. By contrast, stress and worry decrease, and respect increases with each additional hour of reported strengths usage. For each of these emotional experiences, every additional hour of strengths usage adds as much benefit as the first hour. One reason why these emotions – stress, worry, and respect — differ from some of the others may be that laughter and anger tend to be fleeting, momentary experiences. By comparison, respect is an attitude that forms over time.
Here’s an article from the Gallup organization about their extensive research on using strengths, and the powerful effect this can have on how you experience your day.
When Americans Use Their Strengths More, They Stress Less.
Coaching Questions:
Are you using your strengths every day? If not, why not?
Do you know what your strengths really are? If not, how can you assess them?
How can you make a change, no matter how small, that will get more of your strengths into use this week?
The job of any physician is part empathic and part problem solving. This constitutes an inherent trade-off in medicine because the human brain does not have infinite computational resources or time to perform both tasks equally well. One must be caring while also figuring out a proper diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, often under conditions of uncertainty.
Physicians-What do you think of this article from Scientific American?
Why Doctors Should Be More Empathetic–But Not Too Much More: Scientific American.
THIS is a good thing! Take a look at this U.S. Census Bureau data:
“The whole person comes to work, not just the worker. So how you manage that person affects key outcomes like new disease burden, sick days, and obesity, which have direct implications on annual health-related costs. “ Jim Harter, Ph.D., Gallup’s chief scientist for workplace management and wellbeing
Companies that ignore their employees’ wellbeing are losing money. Here’s one big example: Employees with high wellbeing have 41% lower health-related costs compared with employees who have lower wellbeing. In a firm that has 10,000 employees, this difference amounts to nearly $30 million.
This Q and A with Harter and Tom Rath, who leads Gallup’s workplace research and leadership consulting practice, co-authors of the book Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements presents some interesting data about the relationship of wellbeing to any organization’s bottom line.
One of my favorite books of all time is, “Learned Optimism” by Martin Seligman, PhD.
An “oldie but a goodie”, I can’t tell you how many copies of this paperback I have purchased and them ended up giving away. What I like about it is that the research is so compelling for the “optimism advantage”, and this book actually tells you how you can increase your level of optimism, (rather than just telling you why it’s good), in specific and useful ways.
Here’s a related article on Optimism and Leaders from Forbes:
5 Reasons Why Optimists Make Better Leaders – Forbes.
Tell me what you think about this.
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Warm regards,
Lisa
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Here’s a lovely gift to all my readers:
Want to have the best workday ever? Day after day? It’s not as difficult as you think.
These 10 tweaks to your everyday behavior will virtually guarantee you a day that’s not just enjoyable but allows you to get more done than you ever thought possible.
Have a Great Day at Work: 10 Tricks | Inc.com.
Coaching Tip:
What can you do to make your days better?
Managing stress and the fast moving pace of life is a constant challenge. Too much stress and you burn out; too little stress and you become bored. Performing at optimal levels requires that you take stock of what stresses you and utilize specific strategies for managing those stressors. Recently, Harvard Medical School published a list of the ten most common stressors. Here is that list of ten, along with quick strategies for dealing with each:
Quick Strategies to Bust the 10 Most Common Stressors | Psychology Today.