A recent Gallup study reveals that U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world: 83% of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress. And it's impacting our work (stress costs businesses and the economy trillions of dollars in absenteeism, low productivity, and healthcare costs) and our health (stress contributes to 90% of all illness and disease). [...]
Neuroscience-Powered Leadership: How Good Leaders Beat High Stress & Burnout “100% Very Satisfied” is the feedback from participants of this workshop hosted by PEN in November 2022. * How can leaders rely on science to mitigate stressors and prevent burnout? * Why do stressed employees become disengaged and unmotivated? * Why does relying on resilience and [...]
The last 3+ years have been pretty extraordinary, with teams forced to juggle the pandemic, changing work environments, staffing shortages, supply chain issues, and a host of other challenges. Navigating those issues -- and trying to "bounce back better" from them -- has required a level of resilience from teams and individuals alike. While things [...]
People are overworked. Maybe it’s because we reset after the last recession and are all asked to do more with less. Maybe it’s because 10,000 Baby Boomers are retiring EVERY Day, forcing all of us to do more with less. Maybe it’s because wages really haven’t kept up with inflation the last 30-40 years, forcing [...]
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another,” William James, American philosopher and psychologist, 1890. I wonder what James would think about today’s society and the mounting stresses we all face. Little stresses, like traffic jams (didn’t have those in 1890, unless maybe you were fighting for a spot [...]
Things are a little tense these days. We’re in the final stretch of what many experts are calling the most stressful, polarizing Presidential elections in generations, filled with talk of building walls, deporting immigrants, and hiding emails. And though calmer now, this summer many American cities (the Twin Cities included) endured countless nights of civil [...]
Quick trivia: from what movie does the line “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” come? It comes from the 1976 movie, The Network. Winner of four Academy Awards and with an all-star cast, The Network is a satirical film about a struggling fictional TV network. The movie climaxes [...]
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