What’s the difference between a coach, a mentor and a sponsor, and how can they help you to achieve your career and personal goals? This handy guide from Catalyst explores the three relationships, who drives them, and what they can offer your career.
It’s a useful reminder of the different types of support that are available today, something that will be a key focus during the dynamic Women in Leadership Forum and the Pharma Insight Briefing on Diversity & Innovation, which will take place this October 5th and 6th, respectively, during the CPhI Congress in Barcelona. Borderless Consultants Rosalie Harrison, June Nilsson and Niels-Peter van Doorn will present.
Read: Coaches, Mentors & Sponsors: Understanding the differences
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There’s been a lot of buzz about a 4-day workweek. But it will be the ‘4 + 1’ workweek that ultimately wins out: 4 days of “work” and 1 day of “learning.” Several forces are converging in a way that point toward the inevitability of this workplace future.
How can leaders help their teams combat change exhaustion — or step out of its clutches? Too often, organizations simply encourage their employees to be resilient, placing the burden of finding ways to feel better solely on individuals. Leaders need to recognize that change exhaustion is not an individual issue, but a collective one that needs to be addressed at the team or organization level.
In this article, the author describes how a concept called tangential immersion can help anyone persevere in a boring task: Through a series of studies with more than 2,000 participants, she and her coauthors found that people often quit boring tasks prematurely because they don’t take up enough of their attention to keep them engaged.
