BLACKPOOL HEALTH LIBRARY: At the Heart of Quality Information on the Fylde Coast! Management Update from your Library: a collection of interesting articles focusing on leadership and management.
7 Prioritization Tools to Turn Chaos Into Calm!
Knowing how to prioritize is one of the most valuable time management skills you can possess. It can turn chaos into calm when time is short, but tasks are piling up!
You can explore seven effective tools for allocating your time in this article.
What Are the HALT Risk States? Understanding the Risks of Working on Empty
Do you ever feel like you’re “running on empty” at work?
Maybe you skipped breakfast before working on a big presentation, or you struggled to speak up in a meeting after only a couple of hours’ sleep. Perhaps you’re emotionally exhausted because you feel like you just don’t “fit in.”
If so, you’ve probably encountered the HALT risk states.
HALT stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired. The model was first developed to help addicts in recovery see when they were most vulnerable to relapse. Since then, it’s been useful for other people, too – both in the workplace, and in their personal lives.
This article examines when you need to “call a HALT,” and how to act quickly on the warning signs.
Avoiding Burnout – Maintaining a Healthy, Successful Career
It’s the beginning of the week, and Mia is already longing for the weekend.
For the past few months she’s been feeling out of sorts at work, and she’s not quite sure why. For instance, she’s always tired, she feels disengaged and unmotivated most days, and she’s constantly checking how long it is until she can go home.
Mia is also snapping at her colleagues (something she never used to do), and she feels that there’s never enough time to get everything done. This leaves her feeling perpetually behind and demoralized.
Mia is showing classic signs of burnout. In this article, we’ll look at what burnout is, what its consequences are, and how you can avoid burnout in your career…
Don’t Let Frustration Get the Better of You!
American humorist Arnold Glasow wasn’t joking when he said, “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.”
In this article, we explore different kinds of patience and how they apply in the workplace. We also examine the strategies that you can use to develop and nurture this essential quality.
Mindfulness in the Workplace – Focusing the Mind by Staying Present
Do you ever find yourself dwelling on the past? Perhaps you can’t stop replaying a conversation in your head and thinking about what you should have said. Or, maybe you’re anxious about the future, and ask yourself endless “what if” questions.
It can be easy to get caught up in a web of anxious thoughts. But this can negatively impact our productivity and our health and well-being, and lead to more reasons to worry.
One way of stopping this pattern is to practice mindfulness – that is, concentrating our attention exclusively on the present in order to focus the mind and avoid distractions.
But how can we use mindfulness in the workplace? And what benefits can it bring to our personal and professional lives? In this article, we seek to answer these questions and bring together findings from the latest research.
Why Employees Need Both Recognition and Appreciation
Recognition and appreciation. We often use these words interchangeably, and think of them as the same thing. But while they’re both important, there’s a big difference between them. For leaders who want their teams to thrive and organizations that want to create cultures of engagement, loyalty, and high performance, it’s important to understand the distinction.
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