As Darwin once said: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable.” More than your education, your experience or your skill level, studies show that the way in which you respond and adapt to adversity can determine how successful you’ll be. Challenging as I know it is, the Coronavirus is the perfect opportunity to take a long hard look at your own resilience and take steps
I am finding that there are some hidden benefits to this nasty Coronavirus after all. Most of us at one time or another has begged and pleaded to have the opportunity to work remotely! Well we have been granted our wish it seems with this global shutdown. So look on the bright side! We not only get to save commute time and invest that time back into our personal wellbeing and into our relationships, but, we also get to contribute
Listen to the pros/cons of a functional vs. chronological CV format and get ready to group your achievements into skill categories!
Listen to the pros/cons of a functional vs. chronological CV format and get ready to group your achievements into skill categories!
During the Net Impact 2019 Annual Conference, I had the opportunity to sit in on a session about Game Changing Impact with Shannon Houde, an ICF-ACC certified executive coach with more than two decades mentoring, coaching, and training professionals in the impact sector. She also happens to be my career coach. I was quite interested to learn about the organimetric and assessment tool that Shannon’s been instructing lately, The GameChanger Index® (or The GC Index). I wondered how I might
Let’s eat chocolate! Wait, let’s do more than just eat chocolate. Why don’t you join me in savoring chocolate, this moment, and the rest of your day. Practice mindfulness by using your tongue:
Stress is inherent, but you have the power to decrease employee burn out and improve resiliency by practicing mindfulness.
Martha Herrera Gonzalez is known as a pioneer for how she has taken a global extractives business, Cemex, to its next stage of engagement and embedding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) principles across more than 50 countries. Her message is simple: Dream. Listen. Learn. Act. Herrera Gonzalez, who joined the building materials company 23 years ago, is director of CSR and director of the Cemex-Tec of Monterrey Center for the Development of Sustainable Communities. It’s her mission to develop and
I arrive four hours south of San Francisco, California on the shuttle bus full of all shapes, ages, nationalities, colors and spirits of people. It pulls into the steep dirt driveway with the wooden rustic sign announcing the not that rustic retreat center. Overwhelmed by the beauty of the large well mowed grassy field, dance floor bordering the ocean heaving with staff expressing themselves and welcoming us with a groove beat, an extensive organic garden stroking the hillside, a cutting
Harvard Business Review has put together a fabulous infographic series titled “10 Charts from 2013 That Changed the Way We Think.”
