The previous post noted the important role of community for people who showed dramatic improvements in burnout from one year … More
Tag: Workgroup
The Big Divide: How Teams React to Stress
Some teams come together under stress; some fall apart. In a feature story in the Halifax Chronicle Herald I had … More
Leading Change You Don’t Believe In: Can You Fake It?
As noted in a previous post the first step in managing such change is for senior management to make sense … More
Micro Recovery: Sustaining Your Energy Through the Workday
With exhaustion being a defining feature of burnout, the most direct approach to preventing burnout rests on sustaining your energy … More
Swimming in Salt Water
While swimming in Banderas Bay near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, I reflected on the joys of salt water. Its extra buoyancy … More
The Risk Management of Teamwork
Workgroups get things done. An effective and meaningful involvement with work means being at least a good team player and … More
Empathy Builds Resiliency
People become stronger by connecting with others. Resiliency is the capacity to thrive in adversity. That capacity increases as people … More
Mentoring Your Successor
The Los Angeles Lakers are off to a shaky start to their 2012-2013 NBA season. Only a few games into … More
Getting to Square One: Challenges for Managers
I learn a lot about people by talking with managers about the challenges they face in their work. Their stories … More
Do You Need to “Follow Your Passion” to Have a Fulfilling Worklife?
Last week the New York Times ran a story written by a young computer science professor at Georgetown University about … More
