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An “Action Bias” Can Be Counterproductive

Workplace Psychology

There are two important lessons to learn from this that can be applied to the workplace. The first lesson is from FYI: For Your Improvement , a guide for coaching and development. They discovered that goalkeepers almost always jump right or left because the norm is to jump — a preference for action (”action bias”). of the time.

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I Felt the Fear and Did It Anyway – The Risk I Took to Blossom

Workplace Psychology

That job led me to crisis training, which ultimately helped me to make a career pivot into leadership & talent development and learning & development, the space within which I work today. “And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

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Self-Regard: Warts & All

Workplace Psychology

According to the Bar-On model, “emotional-social intelligence is a cross-section of interrelated emotional and social competencies, skills and facilitators that determine how effectively we understand and express ourselves, understand others and relate with them, and cope with daily demands” (Bar-On, 2006, p.

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Self-Actualization: Realizing Your Potential

Workplace Psychology

She shared what she learned about their regrets in a 2009 blog post, which was later turned into a book. “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’” -John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). Her patients were those who had returned home to die. The concept of self-actualization is not new.

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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

Workplace Psychology

Two sociologists from University of Minnesota’s Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, Dr. Erin Kelly ( Kelly is now at the MIT Sloan School of Management ), were the original researchers invited in 2006 to observe and study ROWE as it was being implemented at Best Buy (Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, 2015). Background of ROWE.

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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)

Workplace Psychology

Two sociologists from University of Minnesota’s Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, Dr. Erin Kelly ( Kelly is now at the MIT Sloan School of Management ), were the original researchers invited in 2006 to observe and study ROWE as it was being implemented at Best Buy (Flexible Work and Well-Being Center, 2015). Background of ROWE.

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What Burnout Is and Why It Isn’t Confined To The Occupational Sphere

Workplace Psychology

Without energy and active involvement in your work, it’s hard to find a reason to keep going” (Leiter & Maslach, 2005, p. According to ICD-11: “ Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.