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Making the Business Case for Work-Life Integration – Asked and Answered
How to make a business case for work-life integration? My suggestions are here on the Limeade website!
What To Do About an Inflexible Schedule – Asked and Answered
This question was submitted as part of the Limeade Summer Reading Club where the group is reading Bring Work to Life! and virtually discussing work-life. Here’s the detail: I work in a job (manufacturing, energy, retail, food and beverage) where’s it’s harder to implement work-life integration. What types of supports do you suggest I explore? I get […]
How to Manage Your Team’s Work-Life Flexibility – Asked and Answered
I’m a team manager that promotes work-life integration. Some of my employees are high performers and using it effectively, and others are using it to be lazy. How do I keep the supports for the high performers while making sure the others aren’t taking advantage of them. First of all, congratulations on offering work-life options […]
Making Our Marks
We just returned from Mackinac Island where we went with the family for a summer weekend. Mackinac is a tiny, 3.8 square mile island, between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. It’s a special place. Motorized vehicles are banned so bicycles and horses are the only transportation. The island only has 495 permanent residents, […]
Running Red Lights: Lessons in Discomfort
Usually I’m a reasonably good driver, but this past week I accidentally ran two red lights and got a parking ticket*. One of the red lights was kind of a big deal. It was a busy intersection at rush hour with four lanes of traffic coming at me as I was trying to turn left […]
A Rising Tide Raises All Ships: Charting an Entrepreneurial Course
When Matthew Dunstan* left his secure job at Microsoft to sail around the world with his wife and two young sons, he didn’t expect it to change his views on life. Or maybe he did. It turns out that the old adage is true: a rising tide really does raise all ships. Matthew learned a […]
Questions to Evaluate Your Work-Life Fulfillment + Satisfaction – Asked and Answered
This question was submitted as part of the Limeade Summer Reading Club where the group is reading Bring Work to Life! and (virtually) discussing work-life. Here’s the detail: How do I know if I’m fulfilled and satisfied with my current work and life? What questions should I ask myself? Such a good question! First of all, it’s […]
Ripples of Influence: How to Thrive Together
Disher is a very special company. It is 15 years old and 120 people strong. The workLIFEstory of its founder, Jeff Disher is really the story of the organization the entire team has built. I recently met with Jeff and Dayna Beal. Dayna is an original board member and now leads Discovery and Marketing. Together, […]
Enjoy the Little Things
“Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you will realize they were the big things.” ~Vonnegut Russ and Laurel Youngstrom agree that it is indeed all about the ‘little things which are really the big things’. Nearly twenty years ago, Russ was paralyzed in a tragic accident at work. Life was changed irrevocably for […]
Do the Next Right Thing: Lessons from a Cheerful Heart
What’s the next right thing for you? For Jenny Jacobs, the next right thing was to move from Michigan to California. At 44 she has finally found her fit and is doing something about it. She has some brilliant wisdom from having a cheerful heart to being a day-maker and giving yourself the gift of […]