Mindfulness Training To Improve Your Health & Performance
“Peak performance is meditation in motion,” said Olympian Greg Louganis, “where you’re not thinking, just doing.” Whether the task at hand is mental, physical, or a little bit of both, getting “in the zone” for peak performance requires more than skill. “The only way to achieve [peak performance],” Louganis said, “is by letting go of self-judgement.”
How to Break Down Work into Tasks That Can Be Automated
Virtually every organization is wrestling and experimenting with automation. But most are missing the benefits that come from deep and systemic change. One of the largest failings, in our estimation, is that organizations aren’t spending the time necessary to deeply understand the work they’re considering automating. They aren’t deconstructing jobs so the specific tasks that can be automated can be identified. And without deconstruction, companies risk significant collateral damage and minimizing their ROI as they attempt to automate entire jobs.
Science Has Just Confirmed That If You're Not Outside Your Comfort Zone, You're Not Learning
Stability shuts down your brain's learning centers, new Yale research shows.
The 3 Elements of Trust
As a leader, you want the people in your organization to trust you. And with good reason. In our coaching with leaders, we often see that trust is a leading indicator of whether others evaluate them positively or negatively. But creating that trust or, perhaps more importantly, reestablishing it when you’ve lost it isn’t always that straightforward.
Microsoft Excel will now let you snap a picture of a spreadsheet and import it
Microsoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for iOS and Android. It allows Excel users to take a photo of a printed data table and convert it into a fully editable table in the app. This feature is rolling out initially in the Android Excel app, before making its way to iOS soon. Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to implement this feature, with image recognition so that Excel users don’t have to manually input hardcopy data. The feature will be available to Microsoft 365 users.
New Research: Peers Key to Growth
Imperative is releasing some new research this quarter which sheds light on a new workplace truth. We asked a representative sample of the US workforce, “Do you learn more from their managers or from your peers?”