Do you want to be a great leader? There is one skill you need to master that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: emotional fitness. If this is not what you expected, I’m not surprised. Every day, there are dozens of…
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Managers, You Don’t Have to Put Yourself Last
Nataly Kogan
Posted in Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Inspiration, Leadership/Management, Nataly Kogan, Peak Performance
10 Small Daily Habits To Dramatically Boost Your Productivity
As our world gets busier and our phones get beepier, the scarcest resource for all of us is quickly becoming attention and creative output. Every single one of us needs to work harder than ever to make time to put something new…
Susan Cain on being comfortable with public speaking at work
Naomi Osaka’s departure from the French Open highlights how jobs force many of us to be presenters. For the anxious, there are ways to improve. Was Naomi Osaka, a champion tennis player, right to pull out of the French Open…
10 Science-Backed Ways Leaders Can Support Employees’ Mental Health
Nataly Kogan
Posted in Human Resources, Leadership/Management, Nataly Kogan, Peak Performance, Stress Management/Life Balance
As a leader, your job is not to manage people or projects — it’s to manage emotions, including your own. During this really challenging time (understatement of the year!) that can be really intense and since we don’t learn about…
Top tech tips to transform your productivity and well-being
Amy Blankson
Posted in Amy Blankson, Health & Wellness, Peak Performance, Stress Management/Life Balance, Technology
This time last year, “Zoom Fatigue” was a little-known phrase. Fast-forward a year and it has become a universally understood phenomenon. The rapid shift to remote work and learning has caused us to become more reliant on technology than ever…
How to Make Sure the Time You Spend Online Helps You Flourish
Last year, according to a Gallup study, global fear was at an all-time high, fueled by stress, worry, sadness and pain (and that was before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything). Further research has found that large amounts of unfocused online activity drives fear,…
Tagged with: Amy Blankson, digital balance, digital citizenship, digital flourishing, digital wellness
Michelle Poler Shares How Facing Fears Can Help Your Career
This interview with Michelle Poler, originally appeared on Forbes. Michelle Poler’s career started with fear at her door — literally. A project during her master’s program at the School of Visual Arts led to challenging herself to take on her fears…
The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback
Feedback, as they say, is a gift. Research bears this out, suggesting that it’s a key driver of performance and leadership effectiveness. Negative feedback in particular can be valuable because it allows us to monitor our performance and alerts us to important changes…
Nothing To Fear But Yourself: Female Leadership Tools From A Fighter Pilot
The inside of a F-14 tomcat cockpit is not that much different than the workplace. And Carey Lohrenz would know. The country’s first female fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy and now performance expert and leadership development trainer says, “Too…
5 Strategies to Increase Focus in the Digital Era
Did you know that the average attention span of a human has officially dropped below that of a goldfish? Yes, the frequently mocked unintelligent goldfish has an attention span of a brief nine-seconds, while ours now averages at an even briefer,…
Why You Feel Successful But Still Aren’t Happy
Most of our successes fall into one of three categories, and we can rarely have all of them at once. “How can I succeed?” It’s a question many of us ask ourselves and have trouble answering. Because what is success,…
How to Stay Informed With the News Without Getting Depressed
Michelle Gielan
Posted in Communication, Michelle Gielan, Peak Performance, Stress Management/Life Balance, Uncategorized
It was painful to watch, and I had a front row seat. From my post as an anchor at CBS News, I reported on people’s pain as they lost their jobs, homes and savings. The rapid-fire coverage of these problems could…
If Your Talk Doesn’t Do These Three Things, Don’t Give It
Whether you’re giving a toast at a wedding or a big keynote address at a trade show, you know you need to get your act together. What you may not know is how. After all, there’s separate advice out there for giving impromptu speeches like…
Is Happiness the Key to Success?
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Posted in Employee Engagement, Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Peak Performance, Shawn Achor, Uncategorized
Shawn Achor has dedicated his life to studying the relationship between happiness and success. A New York Times best-selling author and speaker whose TED talk has been viewed nearly 14 million times, he has helped thousands of individuals and organizations around the world find…
5 Essential Lessons My Clients Taught Me in 2016
Dr. Tasha Eurich
Posted in Dr. Tasha Eurich, Leadership/Management, Peak Performance, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
In addition to providing a welcome opportunity to eat and drink with wild abandon, the holidays are a great time to reflect on our year. Personally, 2016 required me to get out of my comfort zone. I temporarily scaled back…
5 Tips for Developing a New Speaking Program in 2017
No matter how much we all might try to avoid it or embrace it – it’s that time of year again when we can’t help but contemplate what we want to do differently in the new year. Will 2017 be…
Tagged with: business speaking, keynote speaking, professional speakers, speaking programs, speech topics
Do you have street smarts in business?
Dr. Tony Alessandra
Posted in Dr. Tony Alessandra, Leadership/Management, Peak Performance, Uncategorized
“When you hear the term street smarts, it likely conjures notions of someone immune to being fooled or hustled. But what about street smarts in business? Could the same practical intelligence qualified as street smarts make someone a better manager…
It’s No Joke! Humor Positively Impacts Performance
Dr. Tony Alessandra
Posted in Dr. Tony Alessandra, Health & Wellness, Peak Performance, Stress Management/Life Balance, Uncategorized
It seems like every day, a new workplace study finds that suppressing employee individuality is counterproductive. Organizations that encourage their employees’ humor and eccentricities do better than their competitors. Is this because people are more relaxed and comfortable working somewhere…
3 Enemies of Focus in the Workplace and How to Defeat Them
Dr. Tasha Eurich
Posted in Dr. Tasha Eurich, Leadership/Management, Peak Performance, Stress Management/Life Balance, Uncategorized
Between the distractions all around and our own shriveled attention spans, it is remarkable we get anything done. Aristotle once said, “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” Yet most busy leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals have – at best — ambivalent feelings…
Why Working More Is Making You Less Productive
Your downtime is more precious than you think. You could be much more efficient, productive and happy if you changed the way you view the hours in your day. Many of the business leaders and Harvard students I work with…