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Set Healthy Boundaries at Work

Ian's Messy Desk

The people leader role can also be stressful. Burnout is a state of physical, mental or emotional exhaustion caused by long-term exposure to stress. As well, it’s always a good idea to budget more time and resources to a project than you think is necessary to lessen the stress of unexpected setbacks. Set boundaries.

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8 Work-Life Balance Myths

Ian's Messy Desk

From Human Resources and Skills Development Canada There are myths or assumptions about what the family-friendly workplace really means. For example, if an employee reduces their work hours, they may not be willing or interested in taking a position or promotion that requires extended travel. Thanks for visiting!

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Essentialism: Focus on Less Tasks to Get More Work Done

Productivityist

Every project you complete in multitasking-mode is punished with a loss of quality, loss of time and worst of all, you punish yourself with high levels of stress. How multitasking affects your skill level. It’s hectic, stressful and overwhelming. One hour on social media promoting your stuff. Don’t believe me?

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Communicating Honestly Without Going Overboard

Brilliantly Better

Understanding that most of my fears in this area were irrational or exaggerated, seeing that my communication style basically made me invisible and was sabotaging any chance I had of getting ahead, I decided to develop the skills and attitudes that would allow me to communicate honestly. I now call this skill constructive communication.

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The Death Of The Deadline As We Know It

Brilliantly Better

What you just read is just a chapter from my upcoming ebook: “Assess – Decide – Do: Natural Productivity&#. The ebook will be launched this Friday, on September 17th, but you will be able to pre-order it at a significant discount starting this Wednesday. And I’m big time looking forward to the ebook.

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How To Build Reputation With A Blog – Clearly State Your Expertise

Brilliantly Better

You can offer some assets in exchange to some loyalty: the classical free ebook in exchange of a newsletter subscription. But you can also use your sidebars to promote events, products or services you own or you are part of. While this may be true, until they don’t make their skills obvious, nobody will even know what they do.

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How To Invest In Yourself (And Why)

Brilliantly Better

Stage Two: Growing Skills and Sensors After the assessment, you start to actually invest. You’re going to do this in two ways: you’re either growing and enhancing skills, either build new “reality sensors”. Let’s talk a little about those “reality sensors” (will get back to skills a little later). Fundamental difference.

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