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Started Jul. 10, 2008
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- Have you ever participated in a Spirit of the New Workplace in-person class or seminar?
- Yes
- If yes, what year(s) did you participate in SNW?
- 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- What do you hope to get from this experience?
- Community, personal fulfillment, professional enrichment, and a sense that the class was a "home run" for each participant.
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New York Times interview with Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo
Q. What should business schools teach more of, or less of?
A. I think there ought to be some classes for people to get more philosophical about who they are and what motivates them, and therefore why they act like they act.
That's what SNW is all… Continue
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 10:25am —
Take a yoga break at work
This article came to me from the LinkedIn group Corporate Yogis at WORK.
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 12:00pm —
Overwork is detrimental to success, not just to you personally
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 10:30am —
Meditation and Green Jobs
Posted on September 28, 2009 at 10:42am —
Building Sustainable Organizations - The Human Factor
The paper is available here.
For an interview with Jeff about the article, see here.
Key questions - what will it take to change? how can you make a dif… Continue
Posted on June 5, 2009 at 8:20am —
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301 Ways to Have Fun at Work (or books of a similar bent)
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I have though about this question a lot over the past week.What could the Spirit of the New Workplace web site provide for me and what could I give to it? How does SNW differ from other social web site (Linked In, Facebook, etc.).
I see the benefit of creating a network of people who have taken the course, but with the popularity of social network web sites how can this one provide enough value that I will put at the top of the list and come back to it regularly. The networked sites I use at work help me do my job better and resolve problems more quickly. The most important feature that I use are thediscussion boards and posted articles. I think it would be of value to apply these features to the Spirit of the New Work Place site as well. A discussion board to ask other members what success they have had applying certain tools or techniques as well as categorized articles on the same topics. I think this is an area where I might have some releventant information to contribute. Maybe case studies could be worked into some of your classes, especially if you have some that last longer than two weeks. Possible offer to post some students work as case studies?
Another feature that I would like would be tools to help me keep these lessons learned at the forefront of my mind. One thing I thought of was some way to write myself a letter like we did in class, but to do it online. Maybe an email to myself that won't be sent for three months. This might be getting more into the "life couch" arena than more of the Spirit of the New Workplace, but the consistent and long term application of these lessons learned is what I see as my biggest challenge.
Those are my thoughts at this point. I am sure I will have more.
-Jason
What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding? I keed!
Well, I think that since this class is comprised of hard working multitaskers who are probably paying huge Bay Area mortgages/rents while trying to balance work and family, I reckon there's some stress issues in all of us. At very least this will act as a sounding board for some of us to vent, whine, primal scream, etc. I'm hoping to use is as a job board if I ever decide to quit my current gig. :)
I have pasted a bunch of white papers on the front wall of my office, where people can draw the pictures of what is their perfect day. That was my first improvement after the class.
Thanks for the class though. I really like it, and I really appreciate your efforts.
Also, I think the topic board is a good idea, update it with a new topic every once a week, once a month,,,or.... so that people can post their thoughts... I think a lot of the content that gets posted will be dependant on how much time a person has to play here. ;) papers and exams and real work tend to get in the way of the fun stuff. ;)
my 2 cents.
In regards to work/life balance, I think this network will serve as a sounding board for advice. In other words, after all the sharing we did and realizations we had as a class - this network will hopefully prove to be a safe place to seek frank advice when work/life balance challenges emerge.
I like how you described what you were hoping to get from the SNW experience, btw.
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