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25 April, 2008 in career, effectiveness | Tags: acknowledgement, anticipation, apologising, appreciation, approachability, assertiveness, avoiding, balance, behaviours, being supportive, challenges, clarity, collaboration, commitment, communication, competence, compromise, concerns, conciseness, confidence, confidences, consideration, control, cost-effective, courtesy, creativity, credit, crisis mode, criticism, deadlines, decisions, decisiveness, defensiveness, delegation, difficulties, direction, discipline, domination, effectiveness, emotion, encouraging, engagement, enjoyment, excuses, expectations, fairness, family, favoritism, feedback, feelings, flexibility, focus, friendships, helping, high-quality, honesty, impact, improvement, influence, influencing, informing, initiative, innovation, integrity, interrupting, interruptions, leadership, leading by example, leisure, listening, long-term, loyal, management, meaning, mistakes, motivation, negative feedback, negativity, networking, open-mindedness, organisation, outcomes, people, performance, personal development, personal improvement, personal values, planning, popularity, positivity, pressure, priorities, prioritisation, procrastination, productivity, professional development, professional improvement, professionalism, projects, punctuality, quick fixes, recognition, respect, responsibility, saying no, self-control, sense of direction, sensitivity, solutions, solving, sphere of influence, straightforwardness, strengths, success, talent, tasks, teamwork, timeliness, understanding, values, viewpoints, wellbeing, win-win, work-life balance, working hard | Leave a comment
This morning a colleague invited me to fill in one of these anonymous 360-degree feedback forms. Being so acutely aware of my own “development points” I never really feel qualified to feed back on other’s professional behaviours, but people seem to keep asking me! While ticking the little boxes I had to work at staying focused, instead of becoming self-conscious of my own imperfections brought to mind by the questionnaire!
Even though my aim is to “downshift” and escape the corporate environment (often one of the most challenging environments in which to develop these behaviours) I will always have to be able to collaborate effectively, and will always want to behave in a way that is constructive and respectful of those around me. It still struck me that the list is a pretty thorough and proven memory aid for achieving that. Here is the list:
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13 April, 2008 in emotions, health, stress, wellbeing | Tags: affirmation, anger, anti-stress, anxiety, belief, bitterness, body, canada, cancer, cellular biology, challenges, charities, clinical studies, control, counselling, decision-making, discovery, disease, DNA, emotional health, emotional support, emotions, environmental conditions, fear, feelings, genes, guided visualisation, healing, health, health coach, illness, immune response, immune system, immunity, learning, medicine, meditation, mind, mind-body medicine, mind-body-spirit, mindset, nervous system, non-judgemental, oncology, patients, peer-support, positivity, Psychoneuroimmunology, reading, recovery, relaxation, research, responsibility, self-awareness, self-care, self-criticism, state of mind, strategies, stress, support groups, survival, techniques, terminal illness, thoughts, well-being, wholistic | Leave a comment
by Michelle Hancock
Not a day goes by that the word “cancer” doesn’t scare thousands of Canadians. Like a dreaded scourge, it hovers over us, presumably just waiting to claim its next victim.
But according to scientists in the growing field of mind/body medicine, the disease is not as much an external force as you might believe. Fear and anxiety–our thoughts and feelings–can impact our health just as much as a long list of cancer risk factors. “Psychoneuroimmunology”’ is the scientific term to describe the study of the mind/body connection. Carl Simonton, MD, is an oncologist who pioneered research in this discipline as early as the 1970s. His book, Getting Well Again (Bantam, 1978), shows how “an individual’s reaction to stress and other emotional factors can contribute to the onset and progress of cancer [while] positive expectations, self-awareness and self-care can ontribute to survival.”
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7 April, 2008 in career, emotions, stress | Tags: abilities, accountability, assertiveness, avoidance, balance, best, buy-in, challenges, challenging, defeat, difficult messages, dismissive, doubt, emotions, escalation, fobbed off, lessons learned, now habit, objectivity, perception, perfectionism, problems, reading, reporting, responsibility, time, time management, work, worry | Leave a comment
- Reporting day
- accountable/responsible for problems I have already tried to avoid
- when people say “best isn’t good enough” I don’t have an answer
- defeated – think nothing I say will make any difference
- not raising problems, or not challenging when problems are dismissed
- trying to fix them all myself
- accepting being fobbed off
- not getting “client” buy-in to difficult messages
- doubting own abilities
- means excess time for me
- not escalating because I’m worried it’ll reflect on me
There seems to be lots of doubt going on here. Could use more balance; helpful to look at what I could have done differently but also needs to be balanced with what others could also have done differently. Might be useful to read “The Now Habit” again.
