Get Fired Up By Handling Incompletions Right now, examine your life. How many projects are you working on simultaneously? How many books have you started and not finished? How about unfinished articles you are reading or writing? All of those are incompletions! Incompletions drain large amounts of energy and actually create stress. Anything from half-read newspaper…
Why Recovery Is a Leadership Responsibility My husband once came down with a severe cold after working long hours under sustained pressure. Like many professionals, he rarely took sick days. But this time, he tried to push through and simply could not. Twice he went to work, came home, and went straight to bed. He…
Pistachios Calm the Body When Under Stress Who knew? A study done by Penn State documents that eating pistachio nuts calms the body while under acute stress. “A ten-year follow-up study of young men showed that those who had larger cardiovascular responses to stress in the lab, were more likely to contract hypertension later in…
One of the fastest ways leaders accumulate stress is by constantly reacting to other people’s timelines. Missed deadlines, last-minute requests, and repeated vendor issues create unnecessary pressure that feels out of your control. In most cases, the problem is not other people. The problem is the absence of a proactive system. Why Proactivity Reduces Leadership…
You Do Have the Power to Stop Negative Behavior No matter what kind of professional you are, CEO, executive, business owner, doctor, lawyer, manager, you have the right and indeed, the responsibility, to set standards for your workplace. Many fields have set standards already, from healthcare to law. However you can go further. You can set standards of…
If You Don’t Know What’s Going On, Ask One of the hardest parts of any job is feeling like you are missing critical data you need. Sometimes that data is product and service-related and other times, it is personnel-related. If you are in a situation where you don’t know the guidelines, you don’t understand the…
Management Tip: Catch People in Act of Doing it Right At a recent networking function, I hugged a business associate and praised her for her recent accomplishments. She said “I wish they treated me this way at work.” How sad that so many workplaces don’t emphasize praise, but rather just numbers and performance. Your employees will run…
Stress Express Tip: Give Crystal Clear Expectations to Your People Welcoa leader David Hunnicutt says that only 10% of all employers have crystal clear expectations for their employees. That’s especially astonishing when you need them to perform at high levels under significant pressure. If they don’t know exactly what is expected of them, how can they succeed? David suggested managers…
Fire Up! Your Intellectual Property Protection If you regularly post on your blog or newsletter, protect your material. Tammy Hawk-Bridges of the blog Social Heavy shared two free websites that allow you to check if someone is using your content without permission: Copyscape and Plagium. Using Copyscape, I found someone had taken an entire paragraph from my blog and…
Ignite the Fire of Good Communication with Others Human beings are master control freaks; we all want what we want when we want it the way we want it- myself included. The problem is that other people have their own timetables and needs, and frequently, they conflict with ours. An important lesson I continue to learn is to…