Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients. - Richard Branson
Lessons Learned from Attending two Work-Life Balance Workshops in one Week
Attending an in-depth work-life balance workshop can be eye-opening and give you all the tools you need to do your own research and get a deeper understanding of how to achieve your own personal work-life balance free from both external and internal distractions. One has rarely the chance to attend one such workshop, let alone two! Well, lucky me, I attended two in one week!
Is Work-Life Blending the new Work-Life Balance?
Work-life balance. Sounds great, feels comforting and seems achievable, right? You wake up in the morning fresh from an 8-hours sleep, jog with your dog, take a shower singing Sinatra, enjoy a homemade breakfast with your family, put on your flawlessly ironed work clothes and head to the office. And only after you have joyfully greeted your colleagues and prepared a hot cup of coffee do you check your emails and get on with your daily tasks.
The Single Most Controversial Workplace Trend
Of course, not all workplace trends are subjects of controversy. It is hard to think there are people who would oppose a shift in closing the gender pay gap or promoting a better work-life balance. However, this is definitely not the case for Automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Six Secret Reasons Why Great Employees Quit
Employees have various reasons to leave a company, but they don’t necessarily share all of them during their exit interview. Most of the times, official reasons include going after a new opportunity or a better salary. But what makes them search for a new opportunity or a better salary outside the company at first place, this is the real question.
Can Introverts and Extroverts Work Together?
But for the opposite ends of the social spectrum, the common admission that opposites attract may not apply to the restless extroverts and the low-key introverts that struggle to find a way to work through their differences and get the job done in a civilized manner.
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