Resiliency in the workplace is a skill that has been tested for many of us, more in the last few years than ever before. But what does resilience even mean? Where does resilience show up? And how do we get better at it?

Technical professionals often pick their career path because they enjoy learning about the smallest of details and finessing their craft. Or their choice of employment requires them to pay attention to the details of their work. Either way, a lot of people in the STEM field can have a tendency to see the trees and miss the forest, and I was no exception.

With every bad meeting comes significant consequences. Employees and leaders across the board complain that meetings don't allow them enough time to get their work done. Unclear instructions and actions lead to confusion. Bad organization results in loss of focus on projects, and delays completion. Irrelevant attendees slow down the conversation, and extend meeting duration. Essentially, bad meetings are contagious. So what can you do to avoid all this?

The 4 day work week. This trending topic could not only change the current norms of our work schedules, but also prove beneficial to employee performance, health, and happiness.

What is psychological safety? Essentially, people feel they can take interpersonal risk at work. For example, expressing opinions or behaviours that may be different from the norm. So how do we create a psychologically safe space in the workplace?

After being forced out of the workplace by the restrictions of the pandemic, the concept of ergonomics fell into the hands of the employee, with a lack of knowledge or financial resources to set themselves up for success. If you can’t pour money into a swanky new home office, what can you do?

What is less known, is that exercise, when incorporated into our workday, can boost our productivity and performance.

Breaks involving activities like reading, surfing the web, catching up on email, and online shopping were actually found to have the highest levels of negative emotions on highly demanding days! So this begs the question: how should you spend your next performance enhancing break?