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Category: Stress Management/Life Balance
Strengthen Your Emotional Fitness With These 5 Practices
Nataly Kogan
Posted in Connecting, Health & Wellness, Leadership/Management, Nataly Kogan, Resilience, Stress Management/Life Balance
I grew up in the former Soviet Union, and my parents and I were considered second class citizens because we were Jewish. I’ll never forget the logbook in my school: Next to your name it said “Jew” if you were…
Tagged with: connection, emotional fitness, Gratitude, intentional kindness, meaning and purpose, Nataly Kogan, self-care
The Small Self Awareness Hack with Big Returns
Dr. Tasha Eurich
Posted in Dr. Tasha Eurich, Health & Wellness, Leadership/Management, Resilience, Self-Awareness, Stress Management/Life Balance
Compared to a few months ago, how are you feeling about life these days? I hope that you’ve had some time to decompress and destress—even if just a little. For many, the waning days of August feel like our last…
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…
This Two-Minute Morning Practice Will Make Your Day Better
Neil Pasricha
Posted in Health & Wellness, Inspiration, Neil Pasricha, Stress Management/Life Balance
In the early 2010s, I wrote a self-help book that catapulted me into a strange universe. I went from working an office job in the suburbs to walking onto TV show sets where I was often introduced as “Captain Awesome” or “The…
6 strategies to help employees digitally flourish in an uncertain world
Amy Blankson
Posted in Amy Blankson, Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Leadership/Management, Stress Management/Life Balance, Technology
This year, the world changed overnight, and organizations globally have had to change with it. Although digital consumption has been on an upward trajectory for years, the rapid shift to remote work for many has led to a feeling of constant connectivity and digital overwhelm.…
Tagged with: Amy Blankson, digital flourishing, digital wellness, employee happiness, employee support, positivity
4 Strategies for Finding Digital Balance in COVID-19
Amy Blankson
Posted in Amy Blankson, Self-Awareness, Social Technology/Social Media, Stress Management/Life Balance
Digital Wellness is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. It’s a topic that I think about every morning when I wake up to face the tyranny of the urgent in my inbox; it’s a topic I…
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…
3 Happiness Hacks to Savor the Holiday Season
Amy Blankson
Posted in Amy Blankson, Social Technology/Social Media, Stress Management/Life Balance, Technology, Uncategorized
Use technology to get more out of life, not distract you from it. Buy the groceries! Prep the turkey! Set the table! In the midst of the scurry to get ready for Thanksgiving, sometimes it can be difficult to just…
The Right Kind of Stress Can Bond Your Team Together
Shawn Achor
Posted in Employee Engagement, Human Resources, Shawn Achor, Stress Management/Life Balance, Teamwork
Last fall, I did a documentary with HBO, directed by Peter Berg and produced by Michael Strahan, called State of Play: Happiness. In the film, we explored how to create a positive culture in organizations where the culture or conditions make it difficult to…
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…
How NOT Unplugging from Technology Saved a Vacation
This article by Sara Tsoodle was originally published at Future Point of View, Scott Klososky’s consulting firm. Having just experienced one of the more disappointing vacations in my adult life, I must ponder how technology rescued my week in certain respects. My…
Is technology good or bad for us?
Amy Blankson
Posted in Amy Blankson, Health & Wellness, Social Technology/Social Media, Stress Management/Life Balance, Technology, Uncategorized
In recent months, I have seen a growing number of posts about how bad technology is for us. Technology is blamed for social isolation, disconnection, and corruption. But I’ve also heard and seen how technology can be used for good…
Think You’re Too Busy to Practice Mindfulness? Think Again
Michelle Gielan and Shawn Achor
Posted in Employee Engagement, Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Leadership/Management, Michelle Gielan, Shawn Achor, Stress Management/Life Balance, Uncategorized
The most forward-looking companies are willing to take risks to achieve greatness. Most leaders give lip service to this idea, but few actually do it. We have worked with banks willing to take on toxic assets (again) and hedge funds…
From Stress to Happiness and Productivity – Podcast
Admin
Posted in Attitude, Michelle Gielan, Peak Performance, Positivity, Stress Management/Life Balance, Uncategorized
Michelle Gielan, national CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, is the bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness. Michelle is the Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research and is partnered with Arianna Huffington to study how transformative stories fuel…
Tagged with: broadcasting happiness, happiness, MIchelle Gielan, podcast, productivity, relaunch show, Success
4 Ways to Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress
Admin
Posted in Attitude, Communication, Connecting, Health & Wellness, Michelle Gielan, Shawn Achor, Stress Management/Life Balance, Uncategorized
Make Yourself Immune to Secondhand Stress by Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan was first published on Harvard Business Review. Over the past decade, we have learned how our brains are hardwired for emotional contagion. Emotions spread via a wireless network…
Are the People Who Take Vacations the Ones Who Get Promoted?
Shawn Achor
Posted in Employee Engagement, Health & Wellness, Peak Performance, Shawn Achor, Stress Management/Life Balance
Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement. But new research, says that the exact opposite is true. Taking a…