by Christi Barrett | Leadership, Success, Supervision, Work/Life Balance
We all know the workers who are the first to arrive and last to leave. They don’t take time off. You wonder if their kids even recognize them anymore. Contrast that person with an employee who leaves early for parent-teacher conferences and usually walks out the...
by Launda Wheatley | Wellness, Work/Life Balance
You may be wondering why a leadership blog would focus so often on stress relief. We focus on stress because we live in a chaotic, fast-paced world that naturally creates stress. No one can be a great performer with a stomach in knots, a racing heart and little sleep....
by Christi Barrett | Change, Work/Life Balance
My mantra for 2012 is “me first.” Self-care is something I struggle with, since I usually define myself as the person who takes care of others. In fact, somewhere deep down, I believe that doing something for myself is selfish. As difficult as this may be,...
by Christi Barrett | Emotional Intelligence, Work/Life Balance
(Today’s post is courtesy of Lynn Townsend, a former Humanergist and veteran of the rat race who has lived to tell the tale!) Recently a former colleague of mine, HK, retired. HK had spent more than two decades as an engineer for a Fortune 500 food company. One...
by Christi Barrett | Leadership, Work/Life Balance
Most of us go through our days wondering how we’re going to do it all. Meetings and deadlines collide with family and personal needs. Before you know it, we’re feeling stressed and overwhelmed. There is no time like the present to give yourself the gift of...
by Christi Barrett | Leadership, Performance, Time Management, Wellness, Work/Life Balance
A dear friend used to talk about the “elasticity” of time. That was his way of describing his cultural perspective on time, which was in stark contrast to mine. I think of time as finite and concrete. (“You’re either on time or you’re...
