Recommended Material (from Others)

We are inspired and informed by the things that other people publish. We have curated a selection to share with you.

 

General Commentary about Work: How, Why …

Focused Advice and Guidance

Thriving Work Environments: Advice from Anetta Pizag

Anetta Pizag is a workplace strategist, work style coach and author of ‘Create a Thriving Workspace’. She helps create human-centric workplaces that enable people to effectively tackle the ever-changing challenges of work while maintaining a healthy body and mind. Anetta also guides people to explore their unique work styles, and develops work practices that bring out the best in individuals and teams. You can connect with her via her website or on LinkedIn.

 

Job Seeking

  • The Job Hunting Podcast, by Renata Bernarde – Expert advice, behind-the-scene secrets, interviews, tips and anecdotes to ensure your job-hunting is as simple as possible, leading to a rewarding career.

 

Self Knowledge: Personality, Strengths and Preferences

 

Skills and Practices

  • MindTools, by Emerald Works – A collection of theory and tools to development essential skills for successful work in management and leadership.
  • Starting your side-hustle playbook, by Model Thinkers – A series of mental models to work through various challenges.
  • GTD work-life management system, by David Allen – Advice on getting things done productively and with low anxiety.
  • Deep Work: Rules for focussed success in a distracted world (Book), by Cal Newport – Deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep—spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.
  • Learned Optimism: How to Change your Mind and your Life (Book), by Martin E.P. Seligman – Draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enhances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it with simple techniques.
  • TED Talk: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals (Video), by Tim Ferris – Tim encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls “fear-setting.” Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive in high-stress environments and separate what you can control from what you cannot.

 

Preparing for the future of work

  • The Future Of Work Starts With Questioning Everything, by Duena Blomstrom – Assumptions to explore if you want innovation and success, and are ready to let go of the false security of past work instead.
  • Lynchpin: Are You Indispensable? (Book), by Seth Godin – About the third team in workplaces: the linchpins. These people figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. They may not be famous but they’re indispensable. And in today’s world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (Book), by Daniel Pink – The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic “right-brain” thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t.
  • The 100-Year Life – Living and Working in an Age of Longevity (Book), by Lynda Gratton and Andrew J Scott – Outlines the challenges and intelligent choices that all of us, of any age, need to make in order to turn greater life expectancy into a gift and not a curse.
  • Job Crafting Toolkit (PDF), by Dept of Employment and Workforce Relations, Australian Government – Advice on ways you can reshape your role to be more meaningful and engaging.

 

Influence and Persuasion

  • Secrets from the science of persuasion (Video), by Influence at Work – Describes the six universal Principles of Persuasion that have been scientifically proven to make you most effective as reported in Dr. Cialdini’s ground-breaking book, Influence.
  • Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive (Book), by Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini, and Steve J. Martin – Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction.

 

Emotions and Empathy

  • TED Talk: Listening to shame (Video), by Brené Brown – Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier TED talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humour, humanity and vulnerability shine through every word.
  • Why your critics are not the one who count (Video), by Brené Brown at 99U – How to deal with the critics and our own self-doubt by refusing to “armor up” and shut ourselves off. “Not caring what people think,” she says, “is its own kind of hustle.” Instead we must “reserve a seat” for the critics and our own self-doubt. “Tell them, I see you, I hear you, but I’m going to do this anyway.“
  • Unlocking Us Podcast, by Brené Brown – Brené unpacks and explores the ideas, stories, experiences, books, films, and music that reflect the universal experiences of being human, from the bravest moments to the most broken-hearted.
  • Emotional Intelligence – Developing strong people skills, by MindTools – Advice on how to become a master at managing your emotions and boosting your people skills.
  • Quiz: How Emotionally Intelligent are You?, by Mind Tools – Discover your level of emotional intelligence to be identify your developmental needs.

 

Self-care and Wellbeing

  • Thrive Global – A behaviour change platform combining data, stories, and actionable microsteps to take your people on a lifetime journey of improved well-being and performance through the new normal and beyond.
  • Conversations with Julie – Podcast series with Julie Gillespie as host. Julie’s creating a safe place to come to, to understand how conversations are what connects us and enable us to be functional, compassionate humans. Helen was a guest talking about Creating a Safe Space, split into Episode 3 and Episode 4.
  • From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out – An article by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. “JOMO can help us be who we really are, instead of acting based on external pressures that may give us short-term satisfaction but long-term regrets. Here are a few ways to bring more JOMO into your life.”