Adapted from an article by Sean Glaze, Michael Hyatt Leadership Consulting, March 2019 Team motivation is often the result of one person being bold enough to shake up the status quo with an extraordinary work ethic or enthusiasm that spreads to the entire group. Surprisingly, one of the best [...]
Healthy personal relationships can provide support and help reduce stress. In addition, studies indicate that people with close friends and family may live longer and experience fewer illnesses. Want to give your relationships a boost? Try the following: Prioritize time with friends and family. Spending time with others can [...]
If you feel and express thanks regularly, you’ve probably experienced how an attitude of gratitude can improve your mood. Same goes for when you’re on the receiving end of gratitude—most people are happier when they feel valued and appreciated. Positive psychology and neuroscience research back this up. And the [...]
The term “burnout” comes from the concept of burning fuel until it’s depleted—an apt metaphor for a condition that has become far too common. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines burnout as, “a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” The primary symptoms are: [...]
5 tips to help you build trust and respect Active listening is a training frequently offered to leaders and counselors to build trust, empathy, and relationships. It’s a skill that can positively impact people both professionally and personally. The foundational concepts are straightforward, beneficial, and available to anyone willing to [...]
Whether you’re giving an impromptu sales pitch or trying to make friends, your ability to connect is something other people can sense. It’s what makes you memorable and magnetic. Employers and recruiters have known this for years—which is why they often prize soft skills like listening and communication over [...]
Between demanding work lives and personal or family needs, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The common response to ever-growing workloads is to work harder and put in longer hours, rather than to step back and find a new way of operating. Feeling perpetually overwhelmed has a range of negative [...]
Your opinion matters. You may soon receive an important survey from Press Ganey. If you get the mailing or email version, you can participate in a national effort to assess and improve healthcare in America. Survey participants are chosen at random, and there are good reasons for you to [...]
For a can-do team that pushes through whatever gets in the way, people need to have the essentials that build engagement: safety, belonging, and purpose. As a leader, it never hurts to ask everyone on the team for ways to shore up a general sense of safety, belonging and [...]
We can debate whether critical thinking skills are innate or developed over time, but we’re better off recognizing the way our brain is a marvelous muscle designed to grow and develop higher levels of understanding, communication, problem-solving, idea-generation, and more. That’s the conclusion of Business Consultant Larry Alton, who [...]
