Source: Michigan State University WorkLife Office … “Feeling More Like I Was In Control Of The Work I Was Doing” Erica Venton
Duration: 20 minutes
Snippet: Erica Venton, Marketing Manager for the Office of the Provost Communications Team, shares some of the new practices she has inserted into her worklife to help her improve her experience.
Source: WorkLife with Adam Grant … Burnout Is Everyone’s Problem
Duration: 42 minutes
Snippet: Burnout seems to be everywhere. But it’s not inevitable. Come inside some high-pressure workplaces that have figured out how to fight exhaustion by redesigning jobs—and changing cultures, using empathy and helping others.
Click to read: The Economics Of Well Being, A Measure Of Success
Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR)
Snippet: Money isn’t everything. But for measuring national success, it has long been pretty much the only thing (other than, of course, sports). The specific metric that has prevailed since World War II is the dollar value of a country’s economic output, expressed first as gross national product, later as gross domestic product. This is an improvement over ranking by military victories […]
Click to read: Turning Toward Our Blind Spot: Seeing The Shadow As A Source For Transformation
Source: Presencing Institute
Snippet: We are living in a moment of tectonic shift in society. Something changed when we all watched the same images — 8 minutes and 46 seconds — the killing of George Floyd. During that unbearable experience, something broke down and broke open in our hearts, in how we relate to one another. And in how we want to live together.
From the Collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. When the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, we witnessed the end of the 20th-century Cold War era. A wall collapsed between two conflicting social systems: capitalism and socialism.
Today we see a different type of wall collapsing. Not a wall between systems, but between system and self. A wall that has kept us separated from each other for too long.
While the coronavirus pandemic has functioned as an eye-opening disruption. Laying bare everything that is already broken in our social and economic systems. Black Lives Matter is shifting not only the way we see the world, but also the way we feel. How we sense each other’s well-being and pain. Whether we numb ourselves, or open ourselves to deeper human connection. Whether we turn away, or find the courage to change.
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Click to read: Aspirational Six hour Four day Workweek
Source: Forbes
Image Credit/ NurPhoto via Getty Images)NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES/Sanna Marin, the Prime Minister of Finland (Photo by Nicolas Economou/
Snippet: In an era of heightened work-related angst, stress and pressure, there is an emerging movement to shorten the workday and week. Sanna Marin, the newly elected prime minister of Finland, is the most recent high-profile proponent of shortening the amount of time people work.
Marin said, “I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.” The aspirational six hour four day workweek concept gained considerable attention throughout Finland, Europe and […]
Click to read: How company leaders can promote racial justice in the workplace
Source: Strategy+Business
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Snippets: Organisations around the world need to be more transparent about policies and progress made on workplace injustice. They need to bring compassion and sincerity into conversations about workplace inclusion, and adopt bold strategies to fight injustice.
Leaders need to tell the story, their story. Stories that can connect their organisations to actions that can outlive them. They need to do this, knowing that freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
In recent months in the US, many company leaders have embraced good trouble in their organization. In response to the killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks, and protests over criminal and economic injustice, countless leaders have spoken out publicly. They have donated millions of dollars toward causes focused on ending the harmful effects of systemic racism […]
Click to read: How Managers Can Prevent Their Teams from Burning Out
Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR)
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Snippet: No organization wants to burn out its employees. And yet, according to new research, companies’ efforts to prevent prolonged stress among their staffs are falling short. Burnout happens when people aren’t given enough time to disconnect, rest, focus on other aspects of life and recharge. Unfortunately, nearly […]
Click to read: Building Worklife Boundaries In The WFH Era
Source: Harvard Business Review (HBR)
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Source: Praxity