Saturday Morning Muse

An Epidemic of Anxiety, Part 3

What can we do to help reduce overall stress and anxiety levels in our communities?
 
This week’s Saturday Morning Muse is part 3 of 3 in our series that explores generational differences and offers solutions to high stress/anxiety levels.
"These are just a few suggestions for how we can address the current epidemic of anxiety in the U.S. Increase financial literacy, get educated, adopt an agile, lifelong learning mindset, periodically unplug from social media, advocate for changes to our educational system to improve the skills of critical thinking, creativity, and decision-making, do what you can to reduce your impact on the planet, and understand when you’re being played by politicians and the media. We are all in this together. Support your neighbor, get to know individuals from other cultures and other parts of the world."
 
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#decisionmaking  #anxiety #stress #genz #educationmatters #climatechange #politicalpolarization #geopoliticaltensions #criticalthinking

An Epidemic of Anxiety, Part 2

What can we do to help reduce overall stress and anxiety levels in our communities?
 
This week’s Saturday Morning Muse is part 2 of 3 in our series that explores generational differences and offers solutions to high stress/anxiety levels in our population.
 
"I can’t put enough focus on the value of education and good decision-making that’s accompanied by a lifelong learning mindset as ways to reduce stress and anxiety. Too many in our society are on auto-pilot, going through the motions of life. Life is happening to them. Self-reliance developed through learning and education coupled with better decision making skills is the path to making things happen in your life and taking control of your narratives and outcomes."
 
Just FYI that we’ve launched the show as a podcast on your favorite podcast streaming services. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts: 
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#decisionmaking  #anxiety #stress #genz #educationmatters #creativity #criticalthinking

An Epidemic of Anxiety, Part 1

Is stress and anxiety holding you back from reaching your goals? Does your internal balancing act between self-doubt and self-confidence tilt heavily toward self-doubt?
 
This week on the Saturday Morning Muse, I’m continuing last week’s conversation on self-belief with an exploration of the self-doubt and anxiety that can hold us back from achieving our goals and dreams.
 
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Enjoy and have a great weekend…
 
#decisionmaking  #anxiety #stress #genz #financialliteracy #financialacumen #personalfinance #personaldevelopment #selfdoubt #selfconfidence

Do You BELIEVE?

Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe in the power of your team? Is self-doubt holding you back?
 
This week on the Saturday Morning Muse, I’m using my prep for a big rock show as the backstory for a message on the power of believing in YOU.
 
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#leadershipdevelopment #selfdoubt #selfconfidence #believeinyou #believeinyourself #believe #teamwork #corporateculture #continuousimprovement

Employee Engagement is a Two-Way Street

Welcome to the Saturday Morning Muse! We’re entering my favorite season of the year tomorrow – fall!
 
In last week’s Muse, I had an open letter to employers and leaders regarding employee engagement and policing return-to-office policies. This week is an open letter to employees regarding the same subject… Employee engagement is indeed a two-way street.
 
Enjoy and have a great weekend…
 
#leadershipdevelopment #employeeengagement #activedisengagement #disengagedemployees #badmanagers #badbosses #returntooffice #corporateculture #humanresources

Employee Disengagement and RTO Policies

I talk a lot about employee engagement in this forum and about the costs/dangers of employee disengagement. According to a recent Gallup survey, for the full year 2023, only 33% of employees are ‘engaged’ in their work—a slight uptick from the previous year’s number of 32%. More importantly, the proportion of employees who are actively disengaged fell slightly to 16% from a 2022 high of 18%. While this represents a small year-over-year improvement, Gallup estimates that the impacts of active disengagement amount to $1.9 trillion of lost productivity in the US. Putting it into perspective, that’s a whopping 8% of US GDP. Just imagine the lift in economic growth, equity markets, trade, etc., that would accompany a significant reduction in active disengagement!
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#leadershipdevelopment #employeeengagement #activedisengagement #disengagedemployees #badmanagers #badbosses #returntooffice #corporateculture #humanresources

Mergers, Acquisitions, and the Growth Trap

Is growth for the sake of growth a good thing in business? What’s the growth trap and how is it affecting the health of your organization? In this episode, I’m talking about mergers & acquisitions and the growth trap that many leaders unwittingly fall into. 
 
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Enjoy and have a great weekend…
#GrowthTrap #Mergers #Acquisitions #M&A #EmployeeEngagement #ContinuousImprovement #CorporateCulture

Is Bigger Always Better?

The question today is this. Is bigger always better? In zucchini, the answer is a resounding no. In business, the answer is a bit more nuanced, but bigger is certainly not always better.
 
As leaders, we routinely fall into what I like to call the growth trap. The growth trap shows up in various forms, but it can be a huge morale killer and represent significant risk to the business. One way the growth trap evidences itself is in your business’s annual budgeting process. Some companies take a thoughtful bottom-up tack in which each functional area of the business submits forecasts for the upcoming year based on inputs from marketing, sales, product management, operations and other client/customer-facing parts of the business...
 
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What's Old is New Again

Is it really the case that nobody wants to work anymore? Is it really the case that GenZ is lazy?
 
My advice is instead of looking down your nose and denigrating members of the generations that follow you, lend a hand. Use your gifts to mentor, lift up, and inspire those who are less experienced than you are.
 
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Working with Intention

Working with Intention: Self-reflection and the use of the five whys requires an open mind and a strong ego in order to challenge potential unconscious bias and consider answers that may not be popular or fit neatly into existing narratives. Hence, it's seldom the case that meaningful results come solely from self-reflection exercises. To make more progress, we will need the help of our coaches and mentors.
 
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