Have you laughed today?
A great team knows how to laugh together, and a great leader uses humor effectively in many ways. Take a look at this Inc. article today, and use it to make yourself a better leader, and your workplace more fun. :
Archive for Energy – Page 5
The Coach-Centric leader embraces it, but it’s still far from the norm. 
Is this the most valuable attribute we are not teaching our leaders?
Here are some very practical action steps that any leader can implement today, or, work on doing more of. Let me know your
ideas.
How Leaders can create a culture of motivating communication | Leadership Cafe.
This is great! (Worth saving and spending some time reviewing.) Enjoy this all you techies out there.
Here’s the best guide I’ve ever seen about getting the best out of napping. It incorporates all the knowledge the sleep scientists have recently learned about how our brains work during sleep and how and when sleep is most restorative.
I always say, “Naps are wasted on the young.” Go ahead, indulge. Science says it’s good for your health and your productivity.
Napping Tips: 7 Expert Strategies For Maximizing Your Naptime.
Does your mood match that task at hand? | LinkedIn.
Here’s a recent Danial Goleman article I think you will like.
Here is a timely article from Tony Schwartz, someone I have been of fan of for many years and leader/founder of “The Energy Project.”
Read on and let me know what YOU think.
Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review.
It’s easy to think of vacation and time off as the best way to increase employee well-being, but, in fact, in the long run, engagement is much more important to an employee’s well-being than the amount of time they have off of work.
The employee that is highly engaged at work, frequently enjoys a blurring of the distinction between work and play, and often finds themselves energized by things that occur at work rather than de-energized or depleted.
In addition, numerous serious research studies have shown that the more often people find themselves in the state of “flow”, (where they are so entirely consumed in what is happening in the moment that they lose all sense of time and of the other activities going on around them), the happier they are.
For Employee Wellbeing, Engagement Trumps Time Off.
Coaching Tip:
Forget about long vacations, and consider what changes you can make to move more in the direction of “I love my work” and “I get a chance to do my best work every day.”
Go for more “flow.”
Ah…. negative thinking. The true “bane of our existance.”
If I had a dollar for every time I worked with a client on their negative thinking, (or their “inner critic” as we call it in the coaching world), I’d be a very rich woman!
Daniel Amen, M.D. calls them ANTs (automatic negative thoughts.) Whatever you call them, here is some solid information about what you can do about them.
I hope you enjoy this article from FAST COMPANY. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
The 20-Minute Exercise To Eradicate Negative Thinking | Fast Company.
But what about your New Year’s business resolutions?
This time of year is a great time to start making—and keeping—business resolutions, too. But sadly, like our personal goals, we often make them (year after year) with sincere intent only to see them quickly fall by the wayside, as we revert to (bad) habits that we have vowed to break.
But what about the most successful people and their resolutions? Have you noticed how the most accomplished people just seem to identify important things and consistently get them done?
Study successful people long enough and you start to pick up on the resolutions they seem to consistently make.
Here are ten of my favorites:
Ten Resolutions The Most Successful People Make And Then Keep – Forbes.