AI and other smart tech can make work culture more human, but only if you know how the tech works and focus on using it to do what it does best (answer rote questions online) and allow people to do what we do best (e.g. strengthen relationships, tell stories, empathize with others.) Here is an article on the Candid blog that I wrote with the brilliant Allison Fine on how to use smart tech to create more work-life balance for all. The article shares a few themes from our forthcoming book, … [Read more...]
Five New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals
Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning. Our family has several New Year's rituals, including a nature hike. This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. (Pictured above) Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In fact, … [Read more...]
5 Tips To Create a Happy, Healthy Nonprofit Hybrid Workplace
When I wrote the "Happy Healthy Nonprofit," in-person workplaces were the norm and the book looked at ways to activate a culture of wellbeing in the nonprofit workplace. Over the last 18 months, I've adapted a lot of the best practices for remote work. While vaccines have given us hope, with the Delta variant, COVID is still top of mind. Returning to the workplace likely won’t be everyone in-person, in the office, all at once side-by-side. Some of us will continue to work remotely (all … [Read more...]
#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH
We are living in traumatic times, and we need to prioritize building resilience. As the COVID-19 vaccines begin to roll out (although not as fast as we’d like), we know there will be an end to the pandemic. But work from home (if we are lucky enough to have a job) will probably continue well into 2021. If we learned anything during 2020, work-life balance is much harder when working from home. Before the pandemic, it was much easier to compartmentalize your workweek with … [Read more...]
New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021
As we face an even darker winter due to the pandemic, we need to keep improving our resilience, the ability to adapt well in spite of significant stressors. Using rituals as part of our professional work is one strategy that can help. Rituals are routine and intentional activities that carry meaning. Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Many … [Read more...]
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