It was Cali Williams Yost across at Work+Life Fit who inspired me to go see Up in the Air recently. Even so, I hadn’t expected there to have been quite so much rich material for my New Work Pioneer thinking as I found. I hope you’ve seen the film – if not, you must! Meantime,…
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New Work Pioneers Use Crises As Opportunities For Change
People looking for a more meaningful relationship with whatever work they do, use redundancy, burn-out and breakdown as opportunities for significant personal change. Rather than allowing these crises to derail or depress them, they choose to see them as catalysts for taking their lives and work forward in a more conscious direction.
The Silent Rise of the New Work Pioneer
Did you see Get Ready to be a Change Maker by Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich over at the Harvard Business Review this week? The article talks about recent economic history, how we’ve cycled through agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions and are now on the cusp of another change again. In their words: “We are…
10+1 steps to make coaching work for you
I spent some time this weekend revamping my coaching page. It made me think that it’s all very well for me to write about what coaching is from my perspective. But if you’re someone who’s forking out for coaching, how do you make sure that it does what it says on the tin? Make sure…
Unhappy at work? An alternative look at this week’s job satisfaction statistics
Did you see that this Tuesday The Associate Press reported on The Conference Board’s survey findings on work satisfaction. In a nutshell: Only 45% of Americans are satisfied with their work. This is the lowest level recorded in 22 years of this survey Only 51% of people find their jobs interesting Of the under 25s,…
What is “work”?
“Work is about the search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as for cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” Studs Terkel (1974) Have you ever stopped to really think about this thing we…