As a distinguished and seasoned leader, Laizer Kornwasser is a major proponent of professional development, as well as giving and receiving feedback. To glean further insight into his philosophy on professional development, be sure to visit his website: http://laizerkornwasser.org/.
Ways Mental Health Treatment Can Benefit From IoT
Mental health illnesses are on the rise, and despite their impact on society, our existing mental health care system isn’t equipped to support patients and their families. Many patients find that there are not enough care providers, especially outside of major cities. Even when they find care, they run into other obstacles, such as waiting lists that stretch on for months or providers that don’t take insurance. There is a growing trend where people are turning to digital healthcare, and the i...
Habits of Highly Employable People
When it comes to job-searching and promotions, there’s no magic bullet. Some may find that the opportunities come to them, while others may find themselves getting stuck for several months. Many factors are at play, but your best bet is to focus on the ones that you can control and adopt some of these habits of highly employable people.
Managing Oneself
Management pioneer Peter Drucker wrote, “We will have to learn to develop ourselves. We will have to place ourselves where we can make the gr...
The Case for Grounding Your Leadership in Realism
Can too much positivity and authenticity be a bad thing? According to a study published in the April 2019 issue of The Leadership Quarterly, the answer is yes, especially when it applies to leadership. Coauthor of the study and professor at Lund University in Sweden, Mats Alvesson, says, “We live in a society where idealized, grandiose images and aspirations dominate.” We then, as a culture, want as much as possible to be presented as good and impressive. Alvesson points out that talk about l...
AI and Wearable Health Tech
The link between wearable tech and health & fitness has always been a strong one. When wearable tech was first introduced, it had very little functionality other than simply counting steps or tracking distances. The next most valuable contribution that wearable tech may provide is in the area of health care, particularly in regards to health monitoring. Monitoring alone, is not enough however, as results have to also be carefully analyzed and that is where AI comes in. Here are three ways AI ...
Embracing Challenges
Most people that are extremely successful in one field would most likely be successful in almost any field. This is because success is as much dependent on building certain core disciplines as it is having any particular talent in a certain area. One of these core disciplines is the ability to embrace challenges rather than avoiding or running from them. Here are three reasons why embracing challenges can help you become successful.
Overcoming obstacles make you stronger
When a runner wants t...
How You Can Create A Culture Of Improvement
It should come as no surprise really, that the business world operates on many of the same concepts and principles of the natural world. One such concept is that you are either growing or dying. You are either pursuing health or you are deteriorating. In the business world, this means that constant improvement is necessary to maintain a flourishing organization. One of the best ways to ensure your business is constantly headed in the right direction is to create a culture of improvement. Like...
Leadership Toughness
Many people desire to become competent leaders through training and experience. Possessing the vital leadership skills necessary to sustain leadership in the world today requires more than professionalism. Through constant experience, leaders have an opportunity to toughen up to become challenge-proof and capable of delivering good results in any environment. Here are some crucial aspects that will enable you to acquire leadership toughness.
Attention to instincts
As a good leader, you should...
Training Your Brain’s Resilience
Even the most successful people face failure from time to time, but that’s easy to forget when it happens to you. Failure can seem like the most devastating thing in the world and, if you don’t know how to bounce back from it, that one failure can set you on a path of self-destruction. These tips can help you retrain your mind to react more positively to failures, allowing you to become more resilient and determined.
Keep a Journal
Writing in a journal on a regular basis can help you clear yo...
The Pillars Of Nonverbal Communication
While most associate communication with words to interact with others, there are also different pillars of nonverbal communication. In nonverbal communication, people depend upon other different behavioral mechanisms rather than words to communicate. When people listen they often observe closely how the other person is communicating through their different behaviors. This, in turn, explains what it is the other person is trying to communicate. There are several different pillars of nonverbal ...
Mindfulness In Nonverbal Communication
Effective leaders understand that communication isn’t just about what they say. It’s also about how they say it. This is in part because of nonverbal communication skills. The way a speaker moves, gestures and carries him or herself can make a big impression on their audience. Knowing how to communicate nonverbally ensures that a speaker is enhancing their message rather than detracting from it.
Nonverbal communication is no joke. Anyone who needs to secure funding should be aware that nonver...
Increasing Your Resilience at Work
Making an error or failing to meet your anticipated goals can cause you to suffer a blow to your self-esteem. In turn, that can affect your future productivity, causing you to suffer more failures. The only real way to avoid this cycle is to find new ways to remain resilient and determined in the face of your failures.
Be Thankful for Your Wins
Feelings of gratitude are actually essential to mental health. Studies have found that expressing gratitude stimulates the hypothalamus, which is the ...
How An Artificial Pancreas Offers Hope For Many
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the United States today. Whether one suffers from the typically more severe and congenital Type I diabetes or the more attenuated but acquired Type II diabetes, either form of this disease can lead to severe complications, disability or even death if it is not adequately controlled.
But controlling this disease, in which the body either produces insufficient insulin or loses its ability to naturally use insulin, can prove to be ...
Evolving As an Entrepreneurial Leader
For those with careers in entrepreneurship and business the ability to function as a leader is becoming a standard requirement in our time. To an extent, almost every entrepreneur is a leader. The evolving business landscape, however, demands that every ordinary leader advances his or her leadership skills to become an outstanding entrepreneurial leader. Any ordinary leader can evolve in 5 key steps to become a skilled entrepreneurial expert and leader.
Know who you are
The first step is for ...
Truths In Leadership
Our understanding of leadership has changed significantly in the last decade. Where once leaders were thought of as being commanding, take-charge figures who often stood alone at the top of the heap, now we understand that leaders actually possess a wide range of temperaments and characteristics. Some leaders are much quieter and prefer to empower and encourage their teams, whereas others prefer to be in the spotlight. No matter how much one leader may differ from the next, there are always g...
Women In Entrepreneurial Leadership
The number of women in entrepreneurial fields is growing rapidly. For generations, women have felt like they had to choose between work and family. Workplace harassment and female socialization have taught them not to put themselves forward so much. However, in recent years, there’s been more understanding of this phenomenon.
Many bright people and especially bright women fall victim to impostor syndrome. This is a big problem in workplaces. Impostor syndrome is where a perfectly competent pe...