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Wanda Swenson, Author, thehowofow.com
Good Old Days?
Jim Stovall, President, Narrative Television Network
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Lauren E Miller, Founder and Managing Partner, Grab and Go Stress Solutions
Empathy In The Workplace
Lesley Lyons, Marketing Director, PeopleStrategy, Inc.
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As we finish off another beautiful year, it is time to look back and think about what has worked and not worked for you. It is also a great time to set the top goals or priorities for the year ahead. Let us all learn from our failures and cherish our success, as we step into year 2020.
Recently, while designing a training program at the Institute for Health and Human Potential, we began our meeting by asking ourselves this question: “What do we want people to be able to do differently after the program?”
We might think that since over 25.3 million Americans have pain everyday—24.4 million of them reporting to the National Institute of Health that they have “a lot of pain”—that we’d be experts at knowing everything there is to know about it.
We have to deal with challenges & obstacles in the 21st century that our ancestors could not have imagined and certainly did not have to face. We have more opportunities, more free time, more technology, more mobility, and more longevity than any human beings that have ever inhabited planet earth.
The word on the street says that work-life balance is being replaced by integration and alignment. Some say it’s actually a choice on how you spend your time and talent in the world.
Most of us understand what it means to be empathetic. The first step is to recognize why showing empathy in the workplace can be vitally important to employee well-being and engagement, job satisfaction and the company’s overall success.
For entrepreneur, professional speaker and success coach Sheryl Grant, transformational leadership through personal development and community building is the name of the game. A Ms., Sheryl clearly knows what it takes to realize over-and-above achievement both in life and in business.
One of the worst time traps that you can fall into is believing that by working a little longer, or by taking work home on the weekend, you can finally "catch up." This fallacy will keep you perpetually chasing the clock for the rest of your career, maybe even the rest of your life.
Quotes are wonderful because they allow us to reflect and then take action. Extracted from over 24 years of original courage research, here are just 21 of my favorite quotes: