SuperDads: Managing Expectations of Modern Fathers
Statistics, studies and your own gut feel tell you that family should come first. But what happens when a dad lets other things take priority? And how can you keep family first and still balance the other competing demands in your life.
Family Friendly Workplaces for Fathers
Committed fathers often try to find employment in a workplace that is family friendly. What makes an employer “family-friendly” and what should you look for in an employer when you are a dad who puts family first?
How To Stay in Touch on the Road
Staying in touch with the children while you are on the road can be a real challenge. Find out ways to keep close to your kids as a road warrior.
Laughing Your Way to Organizational Health
Workplace wellness is a serious issue. With terms like "stress-related-illness" and "burnout" becoming household words, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to keep their workforce happy, healthy and productive.
Keeping the Balance
When I left my '9-to-5' job to work at home, one of the
biggest challenges I faced was getting friends and family
members to understand that I still work. People who do not
work at home have a hard time understanding the amount of
time and effort involved in a home-based business.
Ten Steps to Greater Self-Confidence
No matter what your current level of self-confidence, you can learn to improve it.
This article focuses on ten key strategies for
keeping your self-confidence high and your outlook bright.
Pacing: The Key to Comfortable Living and Working
At the end of a long week, do you have enough energy to do more than run the remote? Explore these tips for managing the pace of your work and life, and find more than exhaustion on Friday night.
Unlocking Your Personal and Professional Potential
Other than watching Hoosiers or Remember the Titans, have you experienced a great coach in your life? How do modern coaches help people and organizations reach success?
Staying Healthy On The Road
If your position sends you traveling, it can be hard to maintain a consistent exercise and eating program. Seasoned business travelers share advice for staying healthy while away on business.
Balancing Life & Work -- Can It Really Be Done?
You've heard it before: There is more to life than work. You've thought about it and agree that it's a good idea. Perhaps you've even struggled with just how to make that idea a reality in your life. You just can't seem to find that balance between your work life and your personal life. There are only so many hours in a day. Eight-hour workdays are remnants of the past. You now spend 10 and sometimes 12 or 14 hours working. That doesn't leave much time for anything else, does it?
Tips for Relighting After Burnout: Energizing Self and Others
The current environment brings additional stress to our homes and offices. You all probably know some of the symptoms. Here are but a few. Check them off and then consider some actions.
Stress-Busting Secrets Of Superbusy People
STRESS. It is defined as a physical, chemical or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be a factor in disease causation. In our everyday lives, stress manifests itself in the anxiety and tension we feel when time, money and resources are short and the list of things that must be done is long. The hectic pace of life in the year 2000 dictates that men and women both try to balance demands of work and the quest for success with the needs of home and family and self.
Tiptoe Past the Door --Nappers at Work Here
Some people do it at home, but only on the weekends. Some do it in their cars. A number of employees do it at the office, if they don't do it enough at home. In fact, several employers think it's a good idea -- and even provide a special room.
Before your mind wanders too far, the subject at hand is the age-old favorite -- napping. The Washington, D.C.-based National Sleep Foundation estimates drowsy workers cost businesses about $18 billion a year in missed workdays and lowered productivity. It offers napping as one possible solution.
You Can Work Smarter, Even When Angry
Anger in the workplace is bad, right? Wrong! All emotions are good, even anger, according to psychologist Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D., author of the book, Emotional Intelligence at Work (Jossey-Bass) and consultant to Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, General Electric, and Bayer. "What gets people in trouble with anger is how they manage it," explains Weisinger.
You Can Fool with Father Time
Many companies don't offer family-friendly perks to hedge against employee churn. No wonder soon-to-be fathers rarely ask for official time off.
Checking Your Baggage: Managing the Emotional Demands of Work and Home
My theme, "checking your baggage," deals with emotional risk and what some scholars call "emotional labor." This theme deals with the kind of work and the kind of situations that tax our ability to respond effectively, to think clearly, and to behave so as to minimize the regret we feel after the fact.
Personal Leadership & Personal Character
I am often asked, "What is the most important thing you have learned in your career?" My answer is simple and immediate: "Personal leadership makes things happen." I have seen the power of personal leadership in many venues. I have seen the difference that Procter & Gamble leaders make in running over seventy country operations and dozens of product line operations. I have seen the difference that individual principals make in over seventy-five public schools and that individual teachers make in thousands of classrooms in Cincinnati.
A Woman's Dilemma: Career Versus Parenting
Marion Wright Edelman admits that businesswomen seeking to combine career and family will find no easy answers. The founder and president of Children's Defense Fund advises women to "think as hard about your parenting responsibilities as about your career responsibilities. Plan it very thoughtfully." She feels that striking a successful balance is only possible with cooperative families, responsive employers and clear priorities.
Lunch Offers Balance Amid the Busy Work Day
Getting out of the office at the noon hour provides time away from the day's chaos. It's worth the time even if it means leaving work a little later.
Stress and Fatigue: Some Natural Remedies
Fatigue, sleep disturbance, stress and tension are the most
common complaints in many doctor's offices. In this article
we will talk about the adrenal glands and their relation to
stress and fatigue.
The ABC's of Time Management
Time Management. This seems to be the focus of the 90's and
probably the new millenium as well. We have more time saving
devices available to us yet we seem to have less time. We
spend millions of dollars annually on time management books
and seminars but we still seem to have too much to do in too
little time.
Resources for Working Moms
There are two kinds of working moms: moms that work outside
the home, and work at home moms (WAHM). I've been a mom
working outside the home for more than 11 years now. While
sometimes I wish I had a little more time to spend with my
husband and daughter, for the most part I don't at all
regret the time I've spent away from home.
The Top 10 Quick Stress Relievers
Here are 10 quick solutions that will provide fast relief from stress.
The Top 10 Things to do when you feel that your lifestyle is too chaotic
While you are thinking through these processes, do not let yourself become trapped in *either/or* thinking. Life rarely has to involve only A or B. Often there are Cs and Ds and even X, Y and Z. Often, too, there is a way to combine A and B. Be creative. Don't worry about how it's been done before, or about what people will say. It is what you will say, how you will live, and how you will feel, that are important.
