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Sep 27, 2024 | 
firefighternation.com | Stephanie White
By Stephanie WhiteThe post-shift ritual. We all have it in some way or another. It can be something as small as listening to a podcast every time you drive home, or a cup of coffee while sitting in the same spot on your sofa when you get home. All firefighters seem to have some sort of habit that sends a signal to our brain that we’re in de-escalation mode. However, we find ourselves in a unique time where the game has changed.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
ceoworld.biz | Stephanie White
Before the spring of 2020, few executives would have ranked the question, “Cameras: On or Off?” as a hot-button issue within their organizations. But the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shutdown forever changed the way most knowledge workers interact and work. According to a recent poll by USAToday’s “BLUEPRINT” team, one-third of U.S. white collar workers work remotely all of the time, while another one-third are in a “hybrid” environment, enabling them to work remotely one-to-four days a week.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
ceoworld.biz | Stephanie White
They have been labeled many things: “Neurodiverse,” “outliers,” even “quirky.” Some of these individuals don’t fall into any of these categories because their differences can be so subtle as to be unidentifiable, or perhaps even imperceptible to many. I’m not referring to the stereotypical, anti-social software coders extraordinaire, who want nothing more than to be left alone with their algorithms. For the purposes of this article, I’m calling them “differently abled” workers.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
umassmedia.com | Stephanie White
The year was 1952, and the Chilean Ambassador and poet, Pablo Neruda, nestled back into the sand on his beloved Isla Negra. From Myanmar to Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Argentina and España…the last 19 years of his tour of diplomacy were extensive. His only consistent companion at every stop was the ocean—a companion that greets UMass Boston just the same. Ambassador Neruda fished out a pen, and began his homage.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
ceoworld.biz | Stephanie White
Companies Focusing on Workplace Civility as a Differentiator. Like many large companies, my Fortune 100 client annually selects a group of graduate students from the country’s elite universities for a summer program that culminates in job offers for the cream of the crop.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
nature.com | Stephanie White |Erin Turbitt |Kathy Tucker |Alison McEwen |Megan Best
AbstractGenetic counselling and testing have utility for people with palliative care needs and their families. However, genetic and palliative care health professionals have described difficulties initiating palliative-genetic discussions. Between March and July 2022, we received n = 73 surveys (6% response rate) from genetic and palliative care health professionals in Australia and New Zealand that assessed and compared barriers and facilitators.
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May 30, 2023 | 
fireengineering.com | Stephanie White
How firefighters can achieve a degree of separation from the ‘on-duty’ mindsetBy Stephanie WhiteThe post-shift ritual. We all have it in some way or another. It can be something as small as listening to a podcast every time you drive home, or a cup of coffee while sitting in the same spot on your sofa when you get home. All firefighters seem to have some sort of habit that sends a signal to our brain that we’re in de-escalation mode.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
africasacountry.com | William Shoki |Alex Park |Stephanie White |Alice de Vries
Across the world, renewed social unrest—from public sector wage strikes in the United Kingdom, to protests against pension reform in France—are being read as a repudiation of austerity. The inflationary crisis afflicting the global North has had the knock-on effect of precipitating a debt crisis in the global South as the cost of servicing debt increases.
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Feb 7, 2023 | 
ceoworld.biz | Matthew Carroll |Gleb Tsipursky |Stephanie White
When there is a goal to achieve, it’s important to have a plan made of several steps or activities that lead to that goal. Working with a knowledgeable or credentialed professional is much more likely to be successful. Understanding the goal and can recommend a course of action that gets there as soon as possible. If an individual wants to improve on fitness and physique, they might consult a personal trainer for a workout regimen.
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Feb 6, 2023 | 
ceoworld.biz | Rebecca Houghton |Gleb Tsipursky |Stephanie White
Employers are out of touch with employee expectations. Well, stop the press. I’m fairly sure that this has been going on since the industrial revolution. Of course they are – there’s a natural disconnect between senior executive priorities and the priorities of the workforce. In fact, their roles, reporting lines and rewards are so often opposed, you’d be forgiven for thinking we designed it to guarantee a disconnect.
