Posts Tagged ‘work-life balance’
VIP Corner: Nancy Koehn on reasons family must be a part of business values
SmartBrief is partnering with Big Think to create a weekly video spotlight in SmartBrief on Leadership called “VIP Corner: Video Insights Powered by Big Think.” This week, we’re featuring Nancy Koehn, a professor of business administration at Harvard University. The business community is due for a change in the way it values families and work-life [...]
How good of an example of living a balanced life are you for your team?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How good of an example of living a balanced life are you for your team? I’m a perfect example. My life [...]
How likely are you to drop everything at work to attend to family matters?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 150,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How likely are you to drop everything at work to attend to family matters? Sometimes I choose work, and others I’ll [...]
INSEAD Women’s Leadership Conference: 7 tips for work-life balance
This post is by SmartBrief’s Liz Perman, reporting from INSEAD Women’s Leadership Conference in Fontainebleau, France, last week. Men and women alike often struggle to maintain a healthy work-life balance, and it gets even more challenging as you move higher in an organization. Susan Rowe, principal coach & founder of Rowepryal; Evelyne Sevin, partner at [...]
@NYTBIZSUMMIT: “Don’t drop the baby”
Today I’m in New York tweeting, networking and blogging from The New York Times Small Business Summit. Before we even made through lunch, I’d already heard enough good advice to warrant several blog posts, so stay tuned as I write them over the next couple of weeks. Thanks to the miracle of Twitter, even people [...]
How to focus on your career and be a mom
This post is by SmartBrief editor Rebecca Pollack, who recently attended the American Veterinary Medical Association‘s annual convention in Atlanta. I’m surrounded by women, some who are expecting and a few on their cell phones with their kids, before the next education session starts at the American Veterinary Medical Association annual convention. Dr. Micaela Z. [...]
Fran Durekas on changing workplace demographics
As part of my coverage of SHRM’s annual conference out in San Diego last week, I sat down with Fran Durekas, founder of employer-sponsored early childhood education provider CCLC, to learn about the trends and demographic changes that are taking place in the workplace and what companies can do to adapt to them. One of [...]
The week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: 4 tips for handling an argument How to conduct a great interview? Zip your lips Why managers can’t ignore bully employees Are your work-life-balance benefits unfair? When you ignore a poor performer it hurts the whole team
