Why Appreciation Matters So Much - Tony Schwartz. By Tony Schwartz | 9:44 AM January 23, 2012 I’ve just returned from an offsite with our team at The Energy Project.
As we concluded, I asked each person to take a few moments to say what he or she felt most proud of accomplishing over the past year. After each of their brief recountings, I added some observations about what I appreciated in that person. Before long, others were chiming in. The positive energy was contagious, but it’s not something we can ever take for granted. Whatever else each of us derives from our work, there may be nothing more precious than the feeling that we truly matter — that we contribute unique value to the whole, and that we’re recognized for it.
The single highest driver of engagement, according to a worldwide study conducted by Towers Watson, is whether or not workers feel their managers are genuinely interested in their wellbeing. Feeling genuinely appreciated lifts people up. That’s unfortunate. 1. 2. 3. 4. Train Your Brain to Focus - Paul Hammerness, MD, and Margaret Moore. By Paul Hammerness, MD, and Margaret Moore | 1:32 PM January 18, 2012 Next time you are sitting in a meeting, take a look around.
The odds are high that you will see your colleagues checking screens, texting, and emailing while someone is talking or making a presentation. Many of us are proud of our prowess in multitasking, and wear it like a badge of honor. Multitasking may help us check off more things on our to-do lists. But it also makes us more prone to making mistakes, more likely to miss important information and cues, and less likely to retain information in working memory, which impairs problem solving and creativity. Over the past decade, advances in neuroimaging have been revealing more and more about how the brain works.
Here are three ways you can start to improve your focus. Tame your frenzy. Frenzy is an emotional state, a feeling of being a little (or a lot) out of control. What can you do? What can your team do? Apply the brakes. What can you do? What can your team do? To Get the Job of Your Dreams, Stop Dreaming - John Lees. By John Lees | 11:47 AM January 25, 2012 “I want to be out of this job tomorrow” is a statement I’ve heard all too often as a career coach.
We’re bombarded every day by the idea of overnight transformation, instant career gratification. The media loves the A to Z candidate — you know, the guy who left his job as an accountant on a Friday and started work as a zookeeper on the Monday. We’re fuelled by stories of people who suddenly made it, who unexpectedly broke through. We see only the slightly shocked expression on the face of the emerging star, and even if we’re told that it took a decade of rejection before they hit top billing, the story we want to hear is the great entrepreneurial narrative — that career dreams can come true. And, of course, they can, but rarely overnight, and rarely without a great deal of exploring and probing. For some this means trying on new modes of working to see if they fit. For some clients I recommend an avoidance of decision making.