Employee engagement is the current Holy Grail for organizations. Many employers – including my own, the University of Maryland – are spending millions of dollars to assess employee engagement and implement programs to increase engagement. Given the research on the payoff of having an engaged workforce, these investments make sense (e.g., see extensive research by Gallup). … [Read more...] about Engaged & Exhausted
Resilience
Time to Think
As I have gotten older, I want more and more time to think, gather my thoughts, make sense of the world, and hopefully garner some wisdom. Yeah, I keep on waiting. That hasn’t happened in a long time even with multiple efforts to carve that time out and work it into my schedule. The necessities of work, family, and Netflix binging push out any attempt otherwise. Then … [Read more...] about Time to Think
New Year’s Reverse Bucket List
Whether you have already given up on your New Year’s Resolutions or not, here is an even more fun activity I learned about in an article by Shine – write a Reverse Bucket List. Instead of writing a list of amazing things that you “hope” to do for the rest of your life, make a list of all the amazing things you have ALREADY done – either significant accomplishments or … [Read more...] about New Year’s Reverse Bucket List
Endangered Resource: Focus
The battle for Focus is on! As if it is not enough that we already have too much to do . . . now the “devices” have entered the fray. If it’s not your computer, then it’s your “smart” phone, or your (Dick Tracy-like) Apple watch. You can try to focus – but then what is that text say? Or the Linked In update, or Tweet, or FaceBook message . . . much less the more normal … [Read more...] about Endangered Resource: Focus
Activate Your Brain
We all want to be able to count on our brains working at an excellent capacity every day, every week, and every year – into the future. But it turns out that in order for that to happen, we need to take good care of our brains – to fully “activate” them. This is the topic of Scott Halford’s book, Activate Your Brain, which is based on extensive secondary research. Here … [Read more...] about Activate Your Brain