Author: Tracy Brower
Making the Business Case for Work-Life Integration – Asked and Answered
How to make a business case for work-life integration? My suggestions are here on the Limeade website!
What To Do About an Inflexible Schedule – Asked and Answered
This question was submitted as part of the Limeade Summer Reading Club where the group is reading Bring Work to Life! and virtually discussing work-life. Here’s the detail: I work in a job (manufacturing, energy, retail, food and beverage) where’s it’s harder to implement work-life integration. What types of supports do you suggest I explore? I get […]
What the Beatles Teach Us about Work-Life
The Beatles were before my time. Even so, last month we saw them in concert. A group of 50-something men wearing wigs, playing guitars and drums, and performing as the Beatles. They were good. Quite good in fact. The whole audience thought so (with the possible exception of my teenage children who rolled their eyes […]
How to Manage Your Team’s Work-Life Flexibility – Asked and Answered
I’m a team manager that promotes work-life integration. Some of my employees are high performers and using it effectively, and others are using it to be lazy. How do I keep the supports for the high performers while making sure the others aren’t taking advantage of them. First of all, congratulations on offering work-life options […]
Making Our Marks
We just returned from Mackinac Island where we went with the family for a summer weekend. Mackinac is a tiny, 3.8 square mile island, between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan. It’s a special place. Motorized vehicles are banned so bicycles and horses are the only transportation. The island only has 495 permanent residents, […]
How to Set Boundaries in Your 24/7 Role – Asked and Answered
This question was submitted as part of the Limeade Summer Reading Club where the group is reading Bring Work to Life! and (virtually) discussing work-life. Here’s the detail: How can I manage my work-life integration if I need to be available to my team/manager/customers 24/7? This is a tough one and I receive this question quite […]
Running Red Lights: Lessons in Discomfort
Usually I’m a reasonably good driver, but this past week I accidentally ran two red lights and got a parking ticket*. One of the red lights was kind of a big deal. It was a busy intersection at rush hour with four lanes of traffic coming at me as I was trying to turn left […]
What To Do When You Feel Overwhelmed by Work and Life – Asked and Answered
This question was submitted as part of the Limeade Summer Reading Club where the group is reading Bring Work to Life! and (virtually) discussing work-life. Here’s the detail: I’m feeling overwhelmed with work, family and my personal life (working out, seeing friends). What are small changes I can make in order to feel I feel I can succeed […]
A Rising Tide Raises All Ships: Charting an Entrepreneurial Course
When Matthew Dunstan* left his secure job at Microsoft to sail around the world with his wife and two young sons, he didn’t expect it to change his views on life. Or maybe he did. It turns out that the old adage is true: a rising tide really does raise all ships. Matthew learned a […]
Just Give
Yesterday I had a conversation with a lovely woman who lives in Minneapolis. She wanted some input and some help. She was struggling with issues in creating a better workplace for people at her company (she is in charge of HR) and just wanted to talk some things through, be heard, and get some ideas. […]