Leadership Guide
Blog | Work Less, Produce More
Whether you are a current or aspiring leader, we believe that everyone can benefit from continuous learning and improvement. Our goal is to share our expertise and experience to help you develop the qualities and skills necessary to lead your team to success.
We hope that you will find our content informative, thought-provoking, and engaging. Thank you for joining us on this journey towards becoming better leaders!
Why You Need to Take Your Vacation Days
Why are vacations important for employees? How do you ruin a perfectly good vacation? What is too long and too short for a vacation?
4 Ways to Work From Home Better
Working from home has led to being unable to fully relax at home, yet not feeling “in the zone” enough to have high performance. This has led many of us to develop feelings of burnout. To address this problem and help restore our sense of work life balance, here are some brain hacks to reduce those mixed messages.
6 Ways to Reduce Burnout
Do you feel like you're unable to get into a state of deep work like you used to? Has your sense of trust in your co-workers deteriorated? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you may be at risk for burnout.
War On Talent
Have you ever stopped and wondered how this lasting pandemic will shape the class of talent entering into the workplace? What opportunities and set-backs are involved? How can companies prepare for this “war” and what perks and benefits should they consider offering?
How to Deal with Overwhelm
Your plate is full, beyond full. No room for anything else, but we can build our capacity and we can REMOVE THINGS to have a manageable mental load.
Here is your step by step guide to ease stress, and start getting you out of survival mode even when things are still changing and uncertain.
Prioritize Sleep
Want to have a great day? Start the night before.
We all know those days we are sleep-deprived; we end up irritable, foggy, and generally in a worse mood. Sleep directly links to our mental and physical health. Sleep is when we create memories, and our brain does a self-clean. Protect it!
Telepressure: Managing Email Stress
There is a phenomenon that most people feel as an urge or pressure to respond to electronic communication immediately. This is called telepressure, even if the emails are sent well after hours and even if they start with "don't worry about this until tomorrow". This is listed as one of the main work stressors and reasons for most workers' inability to disconnect after work.
How to Maintain Your Motivation
Motivation, that mystical concept that likes to hang around with productivity in the future, but never in the present moment. In this article I’m going to explain why motivation seems to fluctuate so much, as well as a few tips for how to maintain your motivation more consistently.