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"Whether working from home or not, many people are feeling burned out during the coronavirus pandemic. A new survey found that nearly 90% of respondents in more than 40 countries felt that their work lives were getting worse during the pandemic ..." Via Leona Ungerer 
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Some days you get to work early, work nonstop, and head home without being able to figure out what you actually accomplished. Everything rushes past you in a blur of emails, meetings, and errands, and your to-do list remains more or less untouched. You’re always going to have a few workdays like this no matter what you do. But if they start happening regularly, you may have a problem on your hands.
If that’s the case, then it’s time to start looking for systematic failures, not just one-off fumbles. And ironically enough, the best place to look may be at your to-do list itself. What better record do you have of the tasks that you’re consistently failing to achieve? These are a few common to-do list items that might be getting in the way of your more important goals. If you can cut them out–even just for a day or two–you may be able to regain your footing. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
October 8, 2017 5:35 PM
These are a few common to-do list distractions that get in the way of what you really need to get done. 
CCM Consultancy's curator insight,
October 9, 2017 1:38 AM
"There’s such a flood of work to do that it’s hard to focus for long on just one thing. So you begin work on that major report, only to find yourself 20 minutes later flitting between your email, your text messages, and maybe two other tasks on top of that. You’re always going to have a few workdays like this no matter what you do. But if they start happening regularly, you may have a problem on your hands."
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Don't place blame for your lack of fulfillment. Take charge, make some changes and get on the road to success.
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How do we improve who we are? The most effective--and often most difficult--way by far is to self-analyze. When we deconstruct our notions of ourselves and who we think we are, we are able to overcome potential obstacles standing in our way to becoming a better person. By answering these 5 questions you can begin the journey of becoming your best self. 1. If you had one day left to live, would you be ready to go? Although it's very easy for us to reach temporary states of complacency, reaching a level of complete fulfillment at life's end is a totally different story. So many of us end up going through the motions instead of actively enjoying what we do on a daily basis. Making sure we are content, right this moment, is a great way to keep this tendency in check. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
April 7, 2016 7:16 PM
Become the best person you can be by truthfully answering these 5 questions.
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Time has a way of slowing down to a glacial pace when you are watching the clock at work. The idea of putting in "face time" seems antiquated in the age of flexible work schedules. But what if you work in an office that seems to value how long you're at your desk more than what you are accomplishing? Psychologist Art Markman helps a reader navigate the peer pressure of staying late. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
September 10, 2015 7:17 PM
We know that sitting at your desk for long hours doesn't mean you're more dedicated to your work, but how can you convince your coworkers? 
Ian Berry's curator insight,
September 11, 2015 7:28 PM
Flexibility always make the list when I ask people what they really want at work. Lots of great insights here. In the end it's all about value as perceived by the receiver and nothing to do with time or where and when the work is done
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In theory, technology should increase both work flexibility and productivity, but it is also responsible for procrastination and a major threat to people’s work-life balance.
In fact, much of the recent debate about work-life imbalance is concerned with our relationship with technology, in particular our inability to disconnect or go offline.
For example, in the U.S. almost 50% of working adults report being “hooked” on email, which is estimated to cost the nation's economy at least $900 billion a year in productivity loss. According to consulting firm McKinsey & Company, professionals spend 28% of their work time reading or answering emails. These statistics explain the international success of bestselling books like The Four Hour Work Week.
Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
July 28, 2014 2:15 AM
Do your Internet habits hold you back, or help you succeed? 
Simon Cripps's curator insight,
July 29, 2014 3:43 AM
We have a perfect web-life balance. When not online we are talking about being online. |
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Connecting with others is at the heart of human nature. Recent research emphasizes that the power of connections can help us be creative, resilient, even live longer. But we can easily overlook the importance of these bonds. As popular writer and researcher Adam Grant has noted, the pressure of tight deadlines and the pace of technology mean that fewer Americans are finding friendship in the workplace. In fact, many of us are further disconnecting from the people we work with: we’re more stressed out than ever, and half of us regularly experience incivility in our jobs.
How can we create possibilities for connection in what is sometimes a hostile atmosphere? We believe there needs to be more compassion. Via The Learning Factor
Tom Wojick's curator insight,
October 9, 2017 12:41 PM
Excellent article. All the points are important, but the practice of emphatic concern is critical in today's stressful climate.
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When we find our work meaningful and worthwhile, we are more likely to enjoy it, to be more productive, and feel committed to our employers and satisfied with our jobs. For obvious reasons, then, work psychologists have been trying to find out what factors contribute to people finding more meaning in their work.
Top of the list is what they call “task significance”, which in plain English means believing that the work you do is of benefit to others. However, to date, most of the evidence for the importance of task significance has been correlational – workers who see how their work is beneficial to others are more likely to find it meaningful, but that doesn’t mean that task significance is causing the feelings of meaningfulness.
Now Blake Allan at Purdue University has provided some of the first longitudinal evidence that seeing our work as benefiting others really does lead to an increase in our finding it meaningful. “These results are important both for the wellbeing of individual workers and as a potential avenue to increase productivity,” he concludes in the Journal of Vocational Behaviour. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
September 24, 2017 7:40 PM
You will be happier and more productive in your work if you find it meaningful.
CCM Consultancy's curator insight,
September 26, 2017 1:10 AM
Perceiving one’s work as improving the welfare of others leads to the perception that it is personally meaningful, and valuable. Employers might assist by helping them make contact with the people who benefit from their work, by increasing the influence of their work on others, or “creating a prosocial climate in the workplace".
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I like being happy. I like it so much that I’ve made more than a few difficult career decisions in order to avoid things that make me unhappy — things like working with people who treat me badly, long days trotting after carrots that always seem to hang just out of reach, and countless hours on planes, trains, and buses. Each “I would prefer not to” came at a professional and financial cost. But, hey, I figured, I’ve only got one life. So you can imagine the dismay I felt upon reading The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success (Harper One, 2016), by Emma Seppälä. In it, Seppälä, the science director of Stanford School of Medicine’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, argues that the pursuit of happiness is actually a key to achieving professional success — not an obstacle to it. Unlike much of the literature about happiness at work, The Happiness Track doesn’t approach its subject from an organizational perspective. There are no free lunches on offer. Instead, Seppälä focuses on six personal “strategies for attaining happiness and fulfillment [that] may, in fact, be the key to thriving professionally.” If you’re familiar with the discipline of Positive Psychology, it’s likely that you’ll have run across these ideas before: be in the moment; nurture your resilience; manage your energy; access your creativity; be good to yourself; be compassionate. Via The Learning Factor
Ricard Lloria's insight:
In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppälä describes six strategies that will make you happier and more successful at work.
Godigitalcoup Tungsten's curator insight,
March 7, 2016 5:48 AM
In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppälä describes six strategies that will make you happier and more successful at work. 
Maggie Lawlor's curator insight,
March 8, 2016 8:17 PM
In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppälä describes six strategies that will make you happier and more successful at work. 
Dodd Carmichael's curator insight,
March 9, 2016 9:22 AM
In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppälä describes six strategies that will make you happier and more successful at work.
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Is the traditional 40-hour work week dead? Today’s nine-to-fiver can only look at all of the alternative proposals being bandied about and savor the possibilities: the four-day work week, the 30-hour work week, the 21-hour work week, and even the no-day work week. With the advent of telecommuting, flexible hours, globalization and answering emails after hours and on vacation, the American worker has entered the era of the fuzzy work-home divide. Via The Learning Factor
Paul Mendelsohn's curator insight,
February 18, 2015 11:47 AM
Check out this fascinating read on current thinking regarding the modern day work week. Lots of great insights into why more is not always better. Could that 3 day work week that George Jetson always complained about become the norm? Time will tell. 
John Norman's curator insight,
February 19, 2015 4:42 AM
There is still a clear division between those that work for themselves and those that work for someone else. How many hours a week does the self employed person work, particularly when they are first starting out compared the person in say a middle management position? I would be great to get some feedback. Is it still a fundamental equation of What's In It For Me (WIIFM) or is there more to it? 
TalentFinders-TX's curator insight,
February 19, 2015 12:38 PM
The ‘No Hour’ Work Week is the reality today
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In the winter of 1928, John Maynard Keynes composed a short essay that took the long view. It was titled “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” and in it Keynes imagined what the world would look like a century hence. By 2028, he predicted, the “standard of life” in Europe and the United States would be so improved that no one would need to worry about making money. “Our grandchildren,” Keynes reckoned, would work about three hours a day, and even this reduced schedule would represent more labor than was actually necessary. Via The Learning Factor
The Learning Factor's curator insight,
June 11, 2014 5:45 PM
Since the 1930s, U.S. G.D.P. has grown, in real terms, by a factor of sixteen. Why hasn’t that wealth translated into more leisure time? |
