7 Ways to Avoid Digital Burnout
With the lockdown, the time we spend behind a digital screen has increased dramatically. With that increased digital exposure comes digital burnout, and it could have negative health effects.
Now, more than ever, we find ourselves in the so-called burnout generation. With billions of people at home during global lockdowns and many of those working from home, the time we spend behind a digital screen has increased dramatically. With that increased digital exposure comes digital burnout, and it could have negative health effects.
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The loudest voices may be remote-work advocates, but plenty of other people can’t get back to the office fast enough.
When Lindsay Compton set up her own consultancy business in 2019, working from home seemed like the best option. As a military wife who has moved eight times in the past seven years, and a mother of two young children, she needed something flexible.
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Bosses want video call cameras on. But workers may have a strong argument against appearing on screen when they don’t want to.
"Good morning, team! If we could all turn our cameras on for this meeting, that'd be great." It's a line that's become a common refrain in the remote work era – but one that many employees dread.
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Compensation, Wellness, Culture: Three Ways Nonprofit Leaders Are Tackling Employee Turnover
As more and more employees leave their jobs, nonprofit leaders are asking themselves “how do I keep and attract employees?” Nonprofit CEOs share some steps they’re taking to weather the Great Resignation.
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10 Ways to Keep Your Employees Happy in 2022
While many factors contributed to these high resignation rates, some experts believe the pandemic has caused workers to shift priorities. This means employers who want to retain their staff members must invest in employee happiness in 2022. Here are 10 simple but effective ways to keep your team satisfied and engaged at your company.
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How to set clear work boundaries — and stick to them
Work boundaries help safeguard our time, our energy and our purpose and how fulfilled we feel. Some work boundaries are functional and clear, while others are more intangible and flexible. For example, at some point we absolutely need to get some sleep and there are boundaries in place to ensure that happens.
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How the Great Resignation is turning into the Great Reshuffle
The Great Resignation of the past year appears to still be in full swing: according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 3% of the US workforce resigned in October, following a record-high in September. As often discussed, some resignations are people taking sabbaticals, early retirement or dropping out of the workforce for caring responsibilities. But that only tells part of the story.
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Long hours. No privacy. Same pay. The work from home overkill
There are two risks inherent in the work from home (WFH) era and they are two sides of the same coin – lack of productivity and excessive productivity. Many people fall into the latter category, working long hours into the night without proper compensation, and well outside the boundaries of their employment contracts. As Nicol Myburgh, Head: HCM Business Unit as CRS Technologies points out, this is a very fine line that companies need to walk very carefully.
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How to Manage Burnout as a Nonprofit Professional
The pandemic had a negative impact on the mental health and well-being of employees across all sectors. With nonprofits hit especially hard as demand for their services increased while resources they’d relied on dried up, nonprofit employees were under enormous amounts of stress, dramatically increasing their risk of burnout. Even with vaccine rollouts well underway and the sector starting to recover, that risk is still very real.
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Crawling to the end of the year? Here’s how to keep your energy levels up.
If you’re feeling like you’re crawling to the finish line at the moment, you’re not alone.
Variations on ‘I need a holiday’ or ‘I’m just trying to get to the end of the year’ are commonplace. And, after the last two years we’ve had, who can blame anyone for feeling that way?
While it’s normal to feel sluggish at the end of the year, it doesn’t have to be your default state. By understanding how you use your energy, and setting appropriate goals, you can make these remaining weeks feel less like a slog and more like you’re ending the year on a high.
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‘It is okay not to be okay’ – Mental health issues and coping skills among the youth amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit young people particularly hard, and first-year university students have found it particularly difficult to cope. This demographic is suffering from severe psychological distress; isolation, stress, and an inability to cope with their workloads are weighing heavily on South Africa’s youth.
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To Do Their Jobs Effectively, Nonprofit Grassroots Leaders Need Health and Wellness Support
I had spent the last three days adventure-spelunking in Borneo, stretching and squeezing my body through narrow rock formations and intermingling with the largest crickets, snakes, and spiders I’ve ever seen. A month before, I climbed my first mountain — Mount Hallasan, a dormant volcano and the tallest peak in Jeju Island, South Korea.
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5 Tips for Energizing Your Organization’s Board Virtually
One lesson that we’ve all learned over the past year is that it takes extra effort to effectively communicate in a remote environment.
In fact, 20% of remote workers identify communication as an obstacle. Consequently, morale can easily fall and more people can drop the ball on tasks. This is especially true for board members, who often have full-time jobs and family to balance on top of their board duties.
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Understanding the mental health of NPO’s during the covid-19 pandemic
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, South African society has been put under severe strain. The exacerbation of already difficult psychological and socioeconomic conditions for many communities has seen non-profit organisations (NPOs) quickly mobilise to provide immediate support, essential emergency relief and life-saving resources for thousands of families across the country during these unprecedented conditions.
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7 Self-Care Tips for Nonprofit Professionals
Prior to the pandemic, nonprofit professionals were often guilty of treating self-care as a low priority, with no thought for self-care tips. With many of us suddenly finding ourselves working from home earlier this year, additional challenges arose to taking care of oneself to be able to effectively serve others.
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5 Self-Care Hacks that Nonprofit Professionals Can Use in a Crisis
Self-care is both an art and a science, one worth getting intimate with, especially if you are one who’s prone to pushing hard towards what you want out of life.
There are two ways to approach self-care: Preventative and Episodic.
Building a nourishing a daily routine that fuels our health and happiness is part of our long-term burnout prevention plan and could include things like good sleep, healthy food, and regular exercise.
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Learning self-care in the non-profit world
The idea of self-care was very foreign to me. Coming from a country where rest and self-indulgence are not the norm, it was rather difficult to assimilate the concept of caring about myself. In Mexico, you are expected to work hard and care about your family and to leave your desires last.
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3 Leading Causes of Nonprofit Burnout and What You Can Do To Prevent Them
While considering staff wellness can be viewed as a privilege of the corporate world, there are many strategies available to limit the nonprofit burnout rate and turnover that is common amongst community organizations. With new innovations available every day, taking care of your staff and ensuring a healthy work-life balance no longer needs to cost an arm and a leg!
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What We Lose in a Virtual Workplace
Regardless of how the future plays out in your organization, one thing is certain: virtual meetings are here to stay. It’s easy to see why. They are cost-effective, as there is no need to pay employees to travel and incur related expenses, and when successful, they enable talented peers to work together regardless of location and organizations to mine the collective wisdom of a widely dispersed employee population.
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Charities Struggle With the Move From Remote Work to Safely Returning Employees to the Office
The nature of the nonprofit’s work didn’t allow for virtual operation, so it shut down for two months, and then reopened at greatly reduced capacity. It was a significant blow to an organization that relies on membership dues for most of its revenue and had recently stressed its finances with the expansion, says Joe Rotondi, its executive director.
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What is Mental Fatigue ?
HOW TO MAKE YOUR GUESTS FEEL COMFORTABLE ATTENDING IN-PERSON EVENTS AGAIN
According to the CDC, it's time to slowly return to normal. Vaccines are going out, the pandemic is waning, and people are ready to start interacting in-person once again. But while this is great news for organizations that rely on fundraising, it's also a very delicate time. Many guests aren't going to feel comfortable attending in-person events for a while. What can you do to help?
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11 Ideas To Combat Zoom Fatigue At Your Nonprofit
“Am I on mute?”
“Can you hear me?”
“Your camera isn’t working, maybe try logging back in?”
These statements are the Zoom soundtrack to our virtual lives. What we once thought was a short-term fix has now carried on for over a year. While we’re grateful for the technology during a worldwide pandemic, it does come with it’s own set of challenges.
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A Guide to Remote Working for Nonprofits
Given that the WHO has announced it has reached pandemic status and many nonprofit organizations are cancelling large events, one of the next logical steps to prevent groups of people from gathering is asking employees to work remotely if they can.
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Scaling Your Nonprofit's Impact Starts With Your People
As the nonprofit sector becomes more focused on accountability and performance, grantors and other stakeholders are increasingly emphasizing capacity-building. This can take the form of improved financial management, strategic planning, efficient internal communication and a wide range of other internal capabilities.
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The Top 12 Reasons to Work in Nonprofit
#12: You learn how to maneuver and manipulate difficult people with big egos and get them to do what you want (i.e. good stuff).
#11: You become a teacher. You have the chance to go home and share with friends and loved ones the stories of your work and your clients, educating them about the magnitude of the issue your organization grapples with.
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WELLNESS NPOwer Mental Health Support
NPOwer is a first-of-its kind NPO Mental Health Support Programme & 24-hour toll-free Helpline that offers FREE Mental Health Care & Support to all NPO’s in South Africa.
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7 Steps to a Strong Nonprofit Back Office
Sean Hale will share seven of the top lessons from his 20+ years of helping nonprofits work smarter (not harder). This includes how to save thousands of dollars per year, how to engage board and management in finances, and leveraging technology.
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COVID-19 and the changing world of work
Whether you are an employee or business leader, you are called to adapt and thrive in a much-changed world of work, one moulded by a need to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic going forward. Our experts share key advice to support you.
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3 Simple Ways to Create More Tech-Life Balance Today
The pandemic has disrupted your life and blurred the lines between working at home and living at work. Your job role may have shifted as we grapple collectively with how to provide essential services with little to no human contact. The volume of emails, texts, tweets, and meetings has increased exponentially. And you’re emotionally spent from all the change, disruption, and uncertainty.
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Mental Health Awareness: Taking care of your employees so they can take care of your business- 26 January 2021
Stress, anxiety and depression have always been facts of life, but challenges to our mental health have spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The financial and emotional impact of lockdown and learning how to live in a whole new world order have all contributed to the surge in mental health cases since March 2020.
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Outlook 2021: Work from home and the future of workplaces after COVID-19
COVID-19 has brought in a new normal - workplaces can never be what they used to be. As office space needs evolve, we take a look at what 2021 may bring to the table: flexible workspaces, work from near home, work from anywhere, and decentralised offices.
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21 tips to make getting back to work this week more bearable
Happy New Year, everyone! I know this week is rough. We’re back at work, with the thousands of emails, hundreds of to-do items, and a whole bunch of virtual meetings lined up with people who are probably just as grumpy as we are. I feel like crap, you feel like crap, we all feel like crap. Except for Ryan, who is always so chipper, God I hate that guy.
Anyway, it’s 2021, so I have compiled 21 tips that are scientifically proven to help you feel better and make this week just a little bit more bearable. Choose the stuff that works for you, ignore everything else:
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Why Africa needs to invest in mental health
More than 13% of the global burden of disease is due to disorders such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and substance abuse. Almost three-quarters of this burden lies in low- and middle-income countries, because of extremely scarce health resources and investment. Many countries allocate less than 1% of the health budget to mental health. Poor or non-existent access to evidence-based care also leads to the need for long-term care and increased costs of care. Click here for more details.
Employees working from home? How to guard against cyberattacks
As the coronavirus forces more people globally to work from home, we are becoming increasingly reliant on technology to live, work and play. However, many organisations are ill-equipped to deal with employees working remotely and the cybersecurity risks that come with it.
With the commencement of South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA) on 1 July 2020, it has never been more important to ensure the security of organisational data. How can companies protect themselves from this scourge? One way is by implementing the global standards set out in ISO Standards 27001, 27005 and 27032.
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Covid-19 has dramatically changed the world of work, probably forever. But with increasing numbers of people working from home, so has their vulnerability to cybercrime.
At the end of August, Elon Musk updated the world on his newest venture Neuralink – a “Fitbit” or implant for the brain designed to facilitate brain-to-machine and, eventually, brain-to-brain interfaces. Science fiction is becoming science fact in our lifetime.
And while these extreme scenarios are still some way off, anyone who has had the challenge of working from home while trying to home-school children during the lockdown would likely agree that if such a brain-to-machine interface was available today, they would gladly connect themselves (and their children) and be done with it.
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HANDLING ANXIETY WHEN YOU ARE BUSY #NPCOMMLIFE
Show of hands – Who is busy?
I obviously can’t see you, but I bet you at least mentally raised your hand, didn’t you?
Of course you are busy. We all are even if we haven’t left our house in a week.
Being too busy was a thing way before 2020 happened (Kivi wrote a whole book about it) and it will be a thing next year and the year after that.
For those of us dealing with anxiety issues, being overworked can just push us over the edge. But there are still emails that need to be written, Zoom meetings that need to be attended, dinner that needs to be cooked, homework that needs to be checked, and on and on and on.
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Mental health tips for adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
With South Africa having claimed its spot as the 3rd fastest growing epidemic worldwide, and Gauteng at the epicentre with exponential growth, many of us are feeling anxious. What if I get infected? What if my parents/ children/ family/ friends get sick and need hospitalisation?
Common reasons for current anxiety :
• Anticipatory anxiety about what might come
• Anxiety about oneself or one’s loved ones being infected
• Stigma around testing positive
• Personal financial concerns
• Worries about economic stability
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COVID-19 Mental Health Toolkit
The mental health and wellbeing of the whole society has been severely impacted by covid-19 and must be considered a priority that needs to be addressed urgently. Psychological distress in populations is widespread. Many people are distressed due to the immediate impacts of the virus and the consequences of physical isolation. Fear of infection, dying, losing family members, stress related to economic situations is prominent.
Frequent misinformation and rumours of the virus and deep uncertainty about the future are common sources of distress. An upsurge in the number and severity of mental health problems is expected. Specific populations are showing high degrees of COVID-19 related psychological distress i.e. frontline health care workers, children and adolescents, the elderly, populations with comorbidities, woman, and the homeless.
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Collegiality, communication key to easing pandemic psych problems
Amid the psychosocial fallout of COVID-19 on campuses, where fear and anxiety levels run high, some actions have proved helpful to students and staff, including collegiality, regular debriefings and intensive, clear communication. There has been demand for resilience and life skills training.
So agreed presenters at a webinar hosted by the Alliance for African Partnership or AAP, a consortium of 11 universities in Africa and Michigan State University. “Coping with Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19 in Higher Education: Responses and lessons learned” was the fifth in a series of six AAP public dialogues. University World News is the media partner.
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How To Tell Your Boss You Have Zoom Fatigue
The coronavirus pandemic has relegated many professionals to work from home and use video conferencing technology to maintain communication with colleagues. However, professionals are finding Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting to be tiring. People are looking at you on these video calls, so you may feel the need to perform at your peak. This can take greater effort on your part in order to process non-verbal cues. Also, moments of silence or delays on a video call can make people uncomfortable.
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Youth Lab | Mental Health First Aid
Youth Lab has teamed up with mental healthcare practitioners to provide Mental Health First-Aid sessions for youth struggling to cope with the effects of Covid-19. If you’re a student, young professional or if you’re unemployed, you can sign up to get mental health support.
Over four weeks our trained facilitators will equip you with practical tools to cope with anxiety and stress. You must be willing to commit to four hour-long sessions over the course of one month.
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Mind Control: Managing Your Mental Health During COVID-19
Never in the history of humanity have so many people been feeling intense anxiety related to COVID-19 and the world it will leave in its wake. The intent of this course is to give you a deeper understanding of the anxiety reaction as it relates to various aspects of our current life, ranging from our consumption of news to the way we talk to our children about this. I will also give you clear strategies for managing and, in fact, turning off the anxiety response at least for short periods. My sincere hope is that you will leave this course with a better understanding of how your brain reacts to crises, along with some powerful tools for managing it before it manages you.
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Dis-Chem, in association with Lancet Laboratories provides COVID-19 testing drive through stations from your car
As a result of the increasingly urgent need to speed up Covid-19 testing, together with the number of tests increasing daily which has led to delayed laboratory results, Dis-Chem Pharmacies will be providing drive-through testing stations at a number of its stores across the country. Dis-Chem's nursing practitioners will facilitate swab tests in the convenience of your car, which will be submitted to Laboratories the results will be communicated to you as soon as available. Please note that results may be delayed due to public holidays, weekends and logistical reasons.
Tests will be carried out by fully trained registered nurses. The test being used is the same as the one presently utilised by healthcare practitioners and they are carried out exactly as they are at various laboratories. The testing process is simple – consumers will be directed to the entrance, then the registration point where completed NICD documentation by the patient will be handed over. After payment of R850, the test will be carried out.
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Working from home: 64 expert tips for staying healthy, happy, and productive
Whether you've been working from home for years, or are just getting started, it's not as easy and fun as you one might think. There are mental hurdles to overcome, including the feeling of isolation, especially if the only voice you've heard all day long is yours as you talk to your dog or cat.
Sure, the idea of rolling out of bed and going to work in your pajamas sounds like a dream come true. But in reality, it does more harm than good to your mental health. We asked ZDNet's team of remote workers from all over the world for their best advice when it comes to working from home. From setting a daily routine to desk setups and ensuring you take care of yourself, here's what they had to say.
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Working From Home. It’s Now A Thing.
As more countries move to de-escalate lockdown, it’s becoming clear that the largest ever experiment in working practices has borne fruit, and that for many people things will never be the same again.
For example, a US Census Bureau survey reveals that one-third of all American workers and half of all so-called “information workers” are able to work from home, and that 98% would like the option of working from home for the rest of their career. Nearly two-thirds of candidates say that whether a company offers alternative work locations (home or office) is a key consideration when choosing a job. On the other side of the equation, companies are managing to save about $11,000 annually for every employee who works from home approximately half the time.
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How to keep safe in supermarkets, schools and on public transport
Lockdown is easing and schools are returning. But in some parts of the country the coronavirus epidemic is escalating. It’s an anxious time, and there are likely to be multiple waves of outbreaks of Covid-19 over the next two years, unless a vaccine becomes available sooner. If we are to live our lives, there are no guarantees against infection. But it’s all about reducing risk to ourselves and others by not becoming infected over a very short period of time which will overwhelm our health care services. We must also protect the most vulnerable (elderly and those with chronic medical conditions) from severe illness and death.
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SADAG Offers Tips To Manage Anxiety & Mental Health During COVID-19
SADAG are aware that during this time many people might feel even more anxious or stressed. While we don’t want to add any further to the panic or hysteria, we want to offer help and support to so many South Africans who feel scared, confused, anxious and overwhelmed. SADAG Helplines are a critical service to many, and since the development of the Coronavirus SADAG has received many calls from people who are already feeling stressed and anxiety.
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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue
It is uncertain exactly when we will be able to work together in our offices, although it is clear that our work will involve primarily digital connections with others for a while longer While the cloud of the global health and financial crisis are weighing on us, the technology we are using as our life line is prompting a new ailment – exhaustion. Now more than ever we must create a robust workplace culture and stronger relationships to retain our humanness.
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Google expects its staff to work from home until 2021 and it's not alone
According to a Bloomberg report, Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, told Google employees on Thursday to be ready to work remotely through October and possibly to the end of the year. Actually, a Google spokeswoman said most Google workers are expected to work from home until 2021.
So, life's going back to normal? Not at this tech giant.
It's not just Google. Facebook has also told its staffers that most of them can continue to work from home through the end of the year. Zillow, the online real-estate company, has also announced that its people can work from home until 2021. And, Sagicor, a major Caribbean's insurance provider, announced their employees would be working from home until 2021.
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Working from home? Beware of the Doom Loop
In his bestseller "Good to Great," author Jim Collins describes something called the “Flywheel Effect.” No matter how dramatic the end result, good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop. In building a great company or firm, Collins argues there is no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle moment. Instead, it’s a process that’s like relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough, and beyond.
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Topics
- Stop Zoning Out in Zoom Meetings
- Break Up Your Big Virtual Meetings
- How to Combat Zoom Fatigue
- Virtual Meetings Don’t Have to Be a Bore
- How to Get People to Actually Participate in Virtual Meetings
- To Build an Inclusive Culture, Start with Inclusive Meetings
Working From Home in Covid Era Means Three More Hours on the Job - Bloomberg
An executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co. gets unapologetic messages from colleagues on nights and weekends, including a notably demanding one on Easter Sunday. A web designer whose bedroom doubles as an office has to set an alarm to remind himself to eat during his non-stop workday. At Intel Corp., a vice president with four kids logs 13-hour days while attempting to juggle her parenting duties and her job.
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A Free Download of Guidelines for a Valuable Virtual Gathering
During the last week, one client cancelled a three-day event, which was to include a day of strategic planning, a full-day board meeting, and a professional symposium.
Another client cancelled a two-day board retreat, one of the only times each year this national board meets in person.
In one case a board chair and in another an executive director described what they saw as an either/or proposition.
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