Build High-Quality Connections
In her book Energize Your Workplace, psychologist
Jane Dutton focuses on ways we can bring more positive energy to work by building high-quality connections. She talks about how even momentary contact, such as an e-mail exchange or a personal connection in a meeting, can make a huge difference in the well-being and productivity of an office.
High-quality connections, as opposed to corrosive ones, come about through respectful engagement, such as being present with each other and listening. High-quality connectors also find ways to facilitate the successful performance of their co-workers and create trust through their actions and words.
Think about a work or personal relationship that's been energizing for you. What are all the elements that made it so? Intentionally practice them in another setting, and see what happens.
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Learn, learn, learn
If learning energizes you, there's a video treasure chest on the web that lets you learn about everything from microeconomics to Rembrandt for free. Kahn Academy is a not-for-profit on a mission: to provide a free world-class education to everyone.
With 3,100 videos, each only about 10 minutes long, you can refresh yourself with a learning break on just about any schedule and many topics. Don't think you like math? Check out "The Beauty of Algebra." You may surprise yourself.
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Solve The World's Problems
Maybe you're a futurist, who's energized by
envisioning solutions to the world's problems. Now there's a place on the web to showcase your ideas or read others' ideas for creating a positive vision of the world. How energizing could that be?!
The Future We Want is designed to create a global conversation about building a positive future. The ideas gathered will add to the conversation at this June's United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20.
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Compassion Energizes
Nearly all of us can recite the Golden Rule on a dime. What you may not know is that you can affirm a charter urging that this principle, central to all the world's relations and spiritual traditions, be front and center in our public and private lives.
Karen Armstrong, a former nun and British author (including Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life), called for help creating such a charter during her winning Ted Talk several years ago, and the compassion movement has since taken off.. It takes just a moment to affirm the charter, drafted in a cooperative effort by
150,000 web users, and join the movement for a more compassionate, less violent world.
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