The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 28, 2021

It’s well known that interruptions at work are prone to stress us out. What is perhaps less well known is that the cortisol that is a byproduct of this stress is visible in our spit, which researchers at ETH Zurich believe could provide an early warning sign that we’re struggling with stress at work. Stressed out.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 31, 2023

From decision-making to creativity, from emotional intelligence to productivity, good quality sleep can significantly influence a leader’s performance. A well-rested leader is better prepared to face challenges, manage stress, and foster a healthy work environment.” ” — Irish Proverb 3.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 4, 2020

Spending time in amongst nature is well known for its stress-reducing qualities, but that didn’t stop new research from Cornell University attempting to quantify the impact. ” The authors believe that their findings underline the importance of placing adequate green spaces in even the most urban of environments.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. We empower individuals across disciplines to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create and hire, but most importantly, we empower others to innovate. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 7, 2023

They're proficient in establishing networks of influence and building relationships with the right people in the right places. Their ability to handle stress and solve problems under pressure keeps them valuable to the organization, even if their day-to-day contributions are minimal. How do you deal with them to be successful?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Such healthy workplaces encourage people to move more while reducing stress levels and even improving their sleep. “The built environment strongly influences behavior, especially behavior that determines health,” the authors say. ” Integrative health.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2016

Increased stress and complexity, and the demands to achieve higher productivity are taking a toll. I expected Sloan Kettering would be a bleak environment that reeked of death and dying. greater employee participation in efforts to innovate. Each V provides a practice that protects people from stress and burnout.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For instance, research from Aberdeen Business School found that spare time in people’s schedules was vital for them to innovate. “At At the end of each interview I asked the interviewees what they would do first to encourage innovation in their organization if they were suddenly omnipotent.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2023

Building a positive culture involves fostering open channels of communication, acknowledging achievements, and creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels like they belong. Granting employees a certain degree of autonomy within their roles not only instils a sense of ownership but also encourages innovation.

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HR Digest

MAY 19, 2024

Effective leaders today must cultivate an environment where employees feel supported, empowered, and inspired to excel. By adopting a positive mindset, leveraging employee strengths, and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, positive leaders can unlock the true potential of their organizations.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Polarization of historic proportions, racial divide, technological challenges and globalization—we are all experiencing stress and uncertainty in our volatile, complex and uncertain environment. However, his stress and demands were causing a domino effect of dissatisfaction and a negative climate. What are leaders to do?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2024

Security is another cornerstone of these electronic methods, incorporating comprehensive measures to limit errors, fraud, and theft risks, offering users a stress-free transactional experience. Advances in financial technology pledge to enhance the speed and performance of payments, rendering them effortless and cost-free.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It is not tense, chronically stressed, anxious, angry, fearful, or experiencing pain.” They can be influenced by certain meditation and deep breathing practices. Specifically, we need to humanize the workplace and create an environment that mitigates ego and fear. A Quite Body is one that is at peace. “It

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 21, 2024

Principle 1: People as Culturally Shaped Shapers Definition: This principle highlights that individuals are both products and producers of their cultural environments. Their cultural contexts influence them, but they also have the agency to effect change within them. Provide platforms for sharing feedback and innovations.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The work environment is characterized by complaining (especially amongst one another), general negativity, high absenteeism, and a large brain-drain of valuable employees who seek better opportunities elsewhere. And this while your formidable organization is innovative, offers excellent salaries and the best perks! You have a problem.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

Their astute observations on the dynamics between employers and employees, influenced by demographic shifts and economic fluctuations, resonate in the turbulent aftermath of the COVID-19 era. (L-R): Neal emphasizes the need for CEOs to foster trust through acknowledging failures or shortcomings, a practice that makes employees 7.5

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 28, 2023

Moreover, intensive work has been found to have adverse effects on employee well-being, including elevated levels of stress and anxiety, physical symptoms such as back pain and insomnia, and a heightened risk of suicide. Doing these things can help employees better cope with a stressful and intense job.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2023

With the recent events and social movements that have taken place, companies are recognizing the need to create more inclusive work environments for their employees. With the pandemic causing stress and anxiety for many people, it will be important for companies to prioritize the mental and physical well-being of their employees.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Leaders who become caught up in fast-paced environments can forget their manners, overlook critical steps, or forget tasks altogether. However, leaders must always remember that their organizations thrive because of their people, and that their people create the culture and environment of the workplace. Alleviated stress.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

In this video post, Chris shares: “ Employees – your team leaders and team members – deserve a work environment that treats them, their efforts, their ideas, their contributions, and their accomplishments with respect. And chances are, your pre-pandemic life wasn’t exactly stress-free, either. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonlokhorst.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2021

2020 was a hugely stressful year for most small business owners, not least due to the challenges involved in ensuring that staff were kept as safe as possible from the virus. This link remained even during significant changes to things such as the ability to work, social contacts being reduced, and changes to childcare.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 20, 2020

Inhibitory control – Research from the University of Pittsburgh has shown that social media reduces our inhibitory control, which is vital in allowing us to override our impulses and focus on the task at hand, with similar research highlighting the damage open office environments can do to our ability to concentrate.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2020

Plants have a strong and enduring reputation as a positive influence on our mood and behavior, and so a recent Japanese study from the University of Hyogo should perhaps come as no surprise. It found that even a small plant can have a positive impact on the stress levels of workers. Stress reduction. Something to care for.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s fairly well known that stress diminishes our decision-making because it consumes a large chunk of our mental resources. The researchers highlight how our environment has a significant impact on our willingness to take risks, either to gain something or to avoid losing something.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Beware of your mindset and benefit from the influence pyramid for improving DEI and any other change. Bill explains: “ As you progress in your leadership career and grow in influence, rank, and stature, never lose sight of the fact that you’re just a speck in an infinite universe, like every other human being who ever lived.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 15, 2024

This is where Karin Hurt and David Dye step in with their insightful book, Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict: What to Say Next to De-Stress the Workday, Build Collaboration and Calm Difficult Customers. Conflict is inevitable. We’re big believers that with workplace conflict, if you can’t smell it, you can’t solve it.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 11, 2023

Multidirectional influence is more important than ever, and followers play an increasingly significant role in the leadership process. Building a performance culture is the first step to cultivating an organization that is innovative, resilient and proactive in the face of change. The leader-follower relationship is a two-way dynamic.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. That finding has stuck with me.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2020

It will come as no surprise that stressful work conditions can cause employees to burn out and dread going to work. While stress can give us short-term boosts to meet deadlines, it can become debilitating, adversely affecting our health and well-being, when it returns frequently or lasts for long periods of time.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2023

And if you look at it through the lens of stigma—that fear of judgment—you find that there is a group of people who are really anxious about what others will think, and that influences how transparent they are and how far they’ll go to keep it a secret,” the researchers explain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

On life’s battleground of culture, leadership influence and environment affect others’ livelihoods, family-life, stress, and general health. Happiness at work leads to 300% more innovation, 44% higher retention, and a 37% increase in sales (references below). Who cares if they’re happy? Everything.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

” Welcome to the era of growth through innovation. And, with it comes the requirement for a work environment focused on reinvention and ingenuity. It requires leaders who are perpetrators of happiness, not carriers of stress. It means leaders must be willing to be sometimes silly not always somber.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving. The most important thing a leader can do in this COVID-19 environment is to recognize that adversity represents their greatest opportunity to lead.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. A solution that is situationally appropriate and highly adaptable to unanticipated stresses is, in a way, “best&# , but rarely shows up in the “solutions&# literature.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving. The most important thing a leader can do in this COVID-19 environment is to recognize that adversity represents their greatest opportunity to lead.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving. The most important thing a leader can do in this COVID-19 environment is to recognize that adversity represents their greatest opportunity to lead.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

These are the people who will turn things around, lead the organization to innovate, and drive through challenges. Not only do they have the ability to innovate and solve issues in today’s climate, but they also have extraordinary emotional intelligence, or soft skills that enable them to thrive in an organization. That’s right.

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