A second test Contact Information Your Name: Your Email Address: Questions Question 1: What has been most helpful? Question 2: What difference has the Staying Positive Society made for you? Question 3: What else?
Toxic academic work environments are defined by many attributes including the following: Effect on employees, students, public, &/or shareholders Effect on employees, students, public, &/or shareholders Another defining aspect is the effect that the rudeness, fear, or negativity is having. When it has a deleterious effect on the people who work in a department, in [...]
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Lencioni, Patrick. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business. First of all, what a great title! As someone who has endured hundreds…no, make that thousands…of meetings that were deadly, the title caught my eye immediately. The content did not let me down. Lencioni’s “fable” books (e.g., The Five [...]
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How’s That Working for You? I think this is a Dr. Phil question…and it’s definitely a coaching-type question. And it’s one that each of us need to ask when we’re in a crazed state for any length of time. I’m not talking about when all of a sudden, one of your kids gets sick, your [...]
What Do You Have to Resist in Order to Get to ‘Just Whelmed’? Paraphrasing Martha Beck (from the previously-quoted O article, entitled “Wait! Stop! It’s All Too Much”), handling overwhelm is not for the faint-of-heart. You have to resist deep instinctive and cultural tendencies. Please ask (and answer) the following questions: What messages have you [...]
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Martha Beck, coach and author, made the following statement recently: “Overwhelm” is increasingly common as demands on human attention increase exponentially. The human brain just wasn’t designed to handle the environment we inhabit. So, it’s not just you who is thinking, ‘Gosh, what’s wrong with me? Why can’t I manage everything that’s going on?’ It’s [...]
Tags: brain, just whelmed, Martha Beck, overwhelm
Allen, David. Getting Things Done, The Art of Stressfree Productivity The minute Amazon.com alerted me to this book (pretty much the day it came out) and I saw the title, I bought it – and that was YEARS ago. I was ready for it and it has made a huge difference for me. It’s not [...]
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Morgenstern, Julie. Never Check E-Mail in the Morning (And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work). Morgenstern originally published this book under the title Making Work Work, and then realized that the provocative phrase “Never Check Email in the Morning” would make her book fly off the shelves. It should fly off the [...]
Tags: amazon prime program, email, Julie Morgenstern, work
In yesterday’s post, you learned how to set up folders. Today, we will talk about how to structure your folders. Let’s get a visual image first. Imagine your file cabinet. When you open it up, you might see 10 folders in there. That’s all fine, but if you started stuffing each individual folder with several folders [...]
Tags: email, folders, organization, Productivity
Do you use folders in your email system? If you do, then you’ll want to read this 2-part post to find out how to use them more effectively. If you don’t, then be sure to read this post to find out ways of setting up folders – and why you would want to do so. [...]
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