Small moments of listening, sharing, and being present can make us feel more connected at work. There’s been a cost to COVID-related social distancing and the rise of remote work: a loss of social connection with our colleagues and coworkers. Recent research from Microsoft found that our professional… Read More »How To Improve Your Relationships With Coworkers:
Self-efficacy Self-efficacy is the belief that you are capable of successfully carrying out tasks. Whilst self-esteem relates to a global evaluation of your life, self-efficacy is how you feel about your ability in any given specific area. How we feel about our ability to do… Read More »Efficacy & Growth Mindset:
You probably know what you want and need in life: Being more organized, developing your career, becoming a better communicator, overcome bad habits, be happier, or be more self-confident. However, getting there might be hard in the short and long term, as it requires effort,… Read More »Daily Journal:
Evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. Why do people avoid the lessons of failure? There are lots of emotional and cognitive obstacles to learning from failure. Overcoming feelings of failure Failure bruises the ego, that metaphorical seat of our self-esteem and self-importance. When we… Read More »How to Learn From Your Failures:
Achieving goals has been found to enhance wellbeing over time. Pride is a positive emotion that you can experience when you accomplish something personally meaningful to you. Positive emotions are connected with a host of benefits (greater creativity, connection with others, openness to new opportunities,… Read More »Accomplishment & Goals:
Feedback is an essential skill for leaders. But there is a fundamental problem with all types of feedback: it focuses on the past, on what has already occurred—not on the infinite variety of opportunities that can happen in the future. As such, feedback can be limited… Read More »Understanding Feedback:
What if you spent a lot of time grumbling and complaining? That is a lot of wasted time and energy. This time and energy could have been used for other – more constructive – things. What if there is a way with which you can… Read More »Care About What You Can Influence:
Identify your constraints Determine the most important goal or objective you could attain to get yourself out of this crunch, and then identify your key restraint, the limiting factor that determines the speed at which you attain that goal. Focus on alleviating that single constraint.… Read More »Know Where You Can Excel Or Stop:
Getting Unstuck Once we see an obstacle in our path, we walk around that obstacle. Unfortunately we sometimes have difficulty. We often think we’re surrounded. How do you walk around obstacles? The answer lies in changing the way you think about the problem. Design thinking… Read More »Getting Unstuck & Overcoming Obstacles:
Ways to use the 5 second rule: To push yourself Become more influential at work Be more productive Step outside your comfort zone Become more efficient at networking To self-monitor and control your emotions To manage, engage, motivate, and encourage team members Every single day… Read More »Change Your Life With The 5 Second Rule: