A Gratitude Attitude for Productivity
Adding gratitude into your workday can improve your wellbeing and productivity. It’s especially important to cultivate gratitude in times of crisis.
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Making and Breaking Habits in Brain and Behavior
New year resolutions are notorious for failing us. Fortunately, there are some research-backed methods to help with breaking old habits and making new ones.
Habits to Learn, Habits to Burn
A closer look at our habits can help us cultivate a much healthier set of practices. And we need to do that to be our best in the workplace.
Zooming Away from Virtual Meetings
Are you exhausted by virtual meetings? So am I. So are many of us. Even CEOs are getting sick of virtual meetings. That’s because of all the ways these meetings fail to replicate natural conversational settings and strain our brains.
Stressing Out…of the Office
A few months ago, I wrote this blog post about the pandemic of burnout sweeping workplaces in the age of COVID-19. In that article, I cited a definition of burnout as unmanaged “chronic workplace stress,” but I didn’t really touch on other kinds of stress. This week, I want to address workplace stress outside the notion of burnout, in all its forms: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Working for Home: The Role of Leadership
Stress is high for leaders and their employees, so here is some guidance for how workplace leaders can best offer support for the working women on their teams during these times.
Working for Home: Shifting the Load
There are several facets of women’s challenges at work, in general and during the pandemic. The forces that combine to exacerbate the crisis originate at home, at work, and from the current circumstances, so in this post, I’ll address solutions working women can work towards in each sphere.
Working For Home: The Crisis
Invisible labor, emotional labor, mental load. All these terms refer to a common phenomenon experienced primarily by women in the workplace. And though the conversation around these issues has begun, there is much more visibility and change needed.
Molding Mindset: Flourishing by Failing
Have you heard of growth mindset? The literature on success in the workplace is littered with references to this concept. In fact, this Forbes article not only labels the growth mindset an “essential” ingredient to success but also confidently asserts that “mindset is everything.” So what is growth mindset?
