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Stress Quotient: How to Measure and Control Stress

Chart Your Course

Jaime Faulkner You need to find out how to control your stress, or your stress will end up controlling you. Here’s all of the information you need to know about Stress Quotient. What is Stress Quotient? Stress Quotient is a diagnostic assessment developed by Rick Bowers and Dr. Ron Bonnstetter in 2014.

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Bringing your dog to work can promote wellbeing and productivity

HR Digest

allow employees to take their dogs to work, according to the Society of Human Resource Management – up from 4 percent in 2014. The benefits go far beyond reducing stress, Randolph Barker, business professor at VCU and lead author on the study, said. Coffee and canines make the workplace go around. Having a ruff day?

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T.O.I.L.E.T. Training™ -- a breakthrough system to improve workplace learning

Great Leadership By Dan

PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2014 -- Rapid Learning Institute (RLI) pulled back the curtain today on its latest innovation in workplace education: the T.O.I.L.E.T. In this time-stressed environment, training is often viewed as a luxury that employers can’t afford. In 2014, the T.O.I.L.E.T.

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Human Feedback is the Greatest Path to Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Based on brain scientists’ research using MRIs that track the path of brain cells during feedback activities, it turns out that giving feedback often triggers a fight-or-flight stress response. Her book, The Feedback Imperative: How to Give Everyday Feedback to Speed Up Your Team’s Success, was published in July 2014 by River Grove Press.

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How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust

Harvard Business Review

Working directly with our human resources department, we launched a remote work pilot for our team of 35 employees. For example, our employees report feeling less stressed, simply because — for some — we reduced or eliminated a grueling commute. Turning Stress into an Asset. You and Your Team Series.

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How Regular Exercise Helps You Balance Work and Family

Harvard Business Review

New research by my colleagues and I (forthcoming in Human Resource Management ) demonstrates a clear relationship between physical activity that is planned, structured, repetitive, and purposive – to use Caspersen and colleagues’ seminal definition of exercise – and one’s ability to manage the intersection between work and home.

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Flextime Is Declining, But “Flex Around the Edges” Is Up

Harvard Business Review

New research from the Families and Work Institute (FWI) and the Society for Human Resource Management finds an “on the one hand, on the other hand” contradiction. Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? The answer seems to be a confusing “both.”