When You Think About the Perfect Workplace, What Comes to Mind ? ?

Make Your Leadership and Workplace Fun Again !

How Good to Great…

Most people fantasize about the perfect job, the best place to work, following their passions and harnessing collaborative energies to do something meaningful.  Or you may just dream of winning the lottery every day.

Your ideal work environment may not be the same as the person sitting in the office (or cubicle) next door. The same holds true when comparing the attitudes of different generations.

When I envision what goes into a great workplace, I think about more than just the location, facilities and technology. My ideal workplace is built on that “can do” attitude and is strengthened by the relationships we build inside and outside our organizations. In order to accomplish this, leadership and teams must be:

• Safe – a great workplace makes safety a foundational commitment for employees and the customers they serve.
• Engaged – people are excited about their work, proud of their organization and eager to make their work environment better. They feel valued for doing meaningful work. They trust their leaders, and their leaders trust and empower them.
• Diverse – a true team that is diverse, inclusive and reflective of the customers it serves. Diversity, in all of its many dimensions, makes workplaces stronger, including diversity of thought and experience.
• Enabled – every employee is empowered to contribute to his or her full potential. They are encouraged to contribute and speak up when something needs fixing or improving.
• Aligned – employees are committed to the organization’s core values and behaviors. They work together to win.
• Driven – people are committed to excellence. They lead by example and know that integrity, accountability and results are expected and rewarded.

No place is perfect, but if you begin with the end in mind and think about walking in your employees shoes, you will be well on your way to creating a positive, productive workplace where people are happy to be part of your vision, contributing to your end goal.

A great workplace creates an environment – and gives us the freedom – to pursue the art of the possible. 

Tanmay Vora - Reflections On Leadership, Learning and Change in a Constantly ...

Leadership has many roles and key areas of expertise. As an architect of the future, the leader not only needs to have a clear and compelling vision of the future that is aligned to core values, they also need to make sure their people are engaged, share that vision and understand the reason why. Planning is critical. Perhaps one of the most critical areas of leadership is great execution. A great leader will challenge and encourage, create and inspire, assess and analyze then align and mobilize talent to activate and deliver success. Reposting Tanmay's infographic

I Haven't Be EveryWhere But Its' On My List .....

Take a Vacation: It's Good For Productivity!

There is a great deal of value in taking vacation.

According to Elizabeth Scott, M.S., in The Importance of Vacations, for Stress Relief, Productivity and Health there are seven effects that vacations have. These include:

1. Vacations Promote Creativity: A good vacation can help us to reconnect with ourselves; operating as a vehicle for self-discovery and helping us get back to feeling our best.
2. Vacations Stave Off Burnout: Employees who take regular time to relax are less likely to experience burnout, making them more creative and productive than their overworked, under-rested counterparts.
3. Vacations Can Keep Us Healthy: Taking regular time off to ‘recharge your batteries’, thereby keeping stress levels lower, can keep you healthier.
4. Vacations Promote Overall Wellbeing: One study found that three days after vacation, subjects’ physical complaints, their quality of sleep and mood had improved as compared to before vacation. These gains were still present five weeks later, especially in those who had more personal time and overall satisfaction during their vacations.
5. Vacations Can Strengthen Bonds: Spending time enjoying life with loved ones can keep relationships strong, helping you enjoy the good times more and helping you through the stress of the hard times.
6. Vacations Can Help With Your Job Performance: As the authors of the above study suggest, the psychological benefits that come with more frequent vacations lead to increased quality of life, and that can lead to increased quality of work on the job.
7. Vacations Relieve Stress in Lasting Ways: It should come as no surprise that vacations that include plenty of free time bring stress relief, but research shows that a good vacation can lead to the experience of fewer stressful days at least five weeks later! That means that vacations are the gift to yourself that keep on giving.

So Revisit the Meaning of “Vacation” & Check out Ms. Scott’s article by clicking on the link for some ideas. “Staycations” are an excellent idea. Try it out.

Learning From The Japanese Fish Provision Challenge !

FISH STORY...Challenges Keep You Energized

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish

But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever.

The further the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish. If the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh. To solve this problem, fish companies installed freezers on their boats.

They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish and they did not like the taste of frozen fish

The frozen fish fetched a lower price.

So, fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little thrashing around, they were tired, dull, and lost their fresh-fish taste.

The fishing industry faced an impending crisis! But today, they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan.

How did they manage...?

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks but with a small shark. The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move.

The challenge they face keeps them alive and fresh!

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired and dull....?

Basically in our lives, sharks are new challenges to keep us active. If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy.

Your challenges keep you energized.

Don’t create Success and revel in it in a state of inertia. You have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference.

Put a shark in your tank this year and see how far you can really go. Challenge your Self!

The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more
you enjoy a challenge.
 

15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: A Book Review and Recommendation

“15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs” as Want to Read??

Time is a resource that everybody struggles to manage. Kevin Kruse’s book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know about Time Management, outlines a set of tools that he has extracted from interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs, academics, and students. 

The 15 secrets include recognizing that there are only 1,440 minutes a day (be careful of those that ask you if you have a minute), identifying and focusing on your single most important task, and abandoning your to-do lists for a calendar. None of these or the other 12 secrets is easy to adopt if you are not already practicing time management techniques. While these techniques are not easy, you can unlearn less effective techniques based on purported common knowledge.

Adaptive practices, much to the chagrin of colleagues that don’t want an agenda that begins with the highest value item rather than something easy.

The book lays out the 15 secrets and then shares outtakes from Kevin’s conversations with students, entrepreneurs and academics. 

 

In this book, you will learn 

• How top achievers use their time as an asset
• How to shed distractions so you can focus your energy on your personal priorities and goals
• How rest and recreation can help you succeed

Overall, I believe this book is extremely useful to us, Regardless of whether you think you are a time management pro or are just starting to deal with trying to manage your own time, 15 Secrets Successful People Know about Time Management will be a valuable tool for helping you to manage your time successfully.

Pick Kevin’s book in paper or Kindle eBook format!

Do You Love Going To Work ?

According to the Edenred-Ipsos Barometer, which surveyed more than 14,000 people in 15 countries about their well-being at work and specifically for emotional satisfaction and have found that  Most of us are actually happy with our job despite a tendency to complain about work.These all the countries have the happiest employees.

Have a look on the assessed report via @wef

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/countries-with-the-happiest-employees/