Shani Harmon
Writer and Contributor at Freelance
Expert in collaborative work practices that actually work
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Shani Harmon
There’s a Maxell cassette tape commercial from the 80s where a man’s hair is blown back by the power of the playback. That vision comes to mind when I think about the work experience so many people are having today. Except it’s not a cassette tape causing our hair to stand on end. It’s one emergency after another. Urgency culture is a term used to describe the pervasiveness of the ASAP, “I need this yesterday” mindset in the modern workplace.
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1 week ago |
fastcompany.com | Shani Harmon
For decades, we’ve been caught in the busyness trap, confusing being overscheduled and highly in demand with creating value. A recent report by technology company Visier coined the term “productivity theater” to describe the performative tasks that employees engage in to look busy. They report that 43% of workers spend over 10 hours a week trying to look productive rather than engaging in value-creating work. This isn’t occurring because employees are lazy or trying to cheat the system.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Shani Harmon
In this moment, with the incessant chaos swirling all around us, it’s natural to want to bury your head in the sand. At the individual level, keeping your head down seems like a pretty good strategy. But at the organization level, where leaders need the team to stay engaged and to move fast as the context changes, the “turtle” strategy can be disastrous. A boost of energy and optimism is a good way to get your own head out of the sand. One way I reset is through an annual wellness retreat.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Shani Harmon
There are 1,440 minutes in a day. That’s a lot less than most of us need to sleep, exercise, eat, run errands, and do our best at work. Sadly, however, that’s what we’ve got. The Earth is not going to rotate any slower than it does, and no amount of daylight savings time will change our finite allotment of minutes. While we can’t change the clock, we can change our relationship with it. To do so, we must shift our mindset from one of time scarcity to one of time abundance.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Shani Harmon
Ever driven to work only to get there and have the eerie feeling that you were checked out the whole time? Like the car drove itself? Mental autopilot is a real thing. It has a tendency to kick in when we’re a) set firmly in a routine and b) when we’re otherwise busy, stressed, or preoccupied. Two conditions typically found in – you guessed it – our everyday work lives. In the workplace, it can be especially easy to default to the way things have always been done. Need to figure something out?
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Reimagining Work: Step 1 https://t.co/ovqnTxhwhu Via @Forbes
How do you change the mindset of an organization? Telling has never been an effective strategy for change. It’s the doing that makes the impact. And since action follows beliefs, start there if you want to see a new meeting culture take root. https://t.co/tnIyJzMRJ4
