Creatives should be encouraged to learn to trust gut instinct when it comes to ideas that provoke an "icky tinge" that's something's not quite right, writes VMLY&R's Amber Chenevert, who leads the agency's Strategy & Insights group. "It's not only essential that you listen to your gut, but also that you enable psychological safety within your team to create a place where others feel empowered to speak up and know they will be listened to and not judged," Chenevert writes.
When using LinkedIn to find a job, there are ways to improve your chances of being noticed. This tutorial walks through how to change your profile's preferences to match your job search, including managing your resumes, setting your commuting preferences and timing job alerts.
Healthy organizations are created when leaders deliberately build trust with employees and ensure that every department is clear about its overall goals and mission, writes Andrew Temte, president and global head of corporate learning at Kaplan North America. "If the purpose of the organization is not clear, or goals continually shift and/or are not congruent across teams and functional areas, your people will not know what to do or what to believe," he writes.
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Health care professionals say the term burnout does not fully capture the range of emotions and the scope of problems they face dealing with work-related stress. While this article focuses on the health care industry, many of the themes apply to other sectors. Some forms of burnout are routine and systemic, but experts say levels of stress being endured during the pandemic shouldn't always be categorized as burnout.
Little Island -- an elevated park that looks like it's floating over the Hudson River in New York City -- opened last week to the public. The park sits atop 132 tulip-shaped, corrosion-resistant precast concrete pods that required extensive 3D modeling and specialized installation. The project had been in the works long before the pandemic, but it takes on greater significance today as demand for park space grows.
