Suppose you Google “autonomy at work”, it would likely pull up the following from www.rallybright.com: “Autonomy means allowing employees to shape their work environment so they can perform to the best of their ability. Autonomy is not working in isolation, doing what you want whenever you want, or lack of…

This year (2021) marks 50 years since the first email was sent. Yeah it is that old! However, wide usage of email in the general workplace has perhaps been only in the last 25 or so years. There are many effective ways to communicate in the workplace such as face-to-face…

Just to confirm, “ticked off” does NOT mean “checked out” (in many countries the check symbol is referred to as a tick). Although interestingly, one could check out after prolonged periods of being ticked off too often. Being ticked off is feeling upset, annoyed, frustrated, or irritated. Many of us…

A highly sensitive person (HSP) is someone who easily gets overwhelmed by intensity of flows like tasks, information, light, sound, smell, etc. They need time to process and can get over-stimulated easily. This may be because an HSP is already taking in a lot of cues from the surroundings and…

As the idiom goes, many of us feel like we are drinking from a firehose at work or at school. In other words, we feel so overwhelmed with tasks that keep getting assigned back-to-back to us and we struggle to keep up. As a coping mechanism, it is tempting to…

The word trust has so many meanings. Depending on the context, saying “I trust so-and-so” could indicate so-and-so’s capability, intention, objective, competence, or reliability, to name a few. However, there is a common theme when we do not trust someone or a group of people, we feel the need to…

Many well-meaning and articulate authors have said that choosing a job ought to be like choosing a romantic partner. We need to have a set of non-negotiable criteria that must be met, personal and organizational goals must align, and the workplace must be collegial and fun. The same things apply…

Those of us that are sensitive sometimes feel we need to display a thick skin at work. According to Merriam-Webster, thick skin is “an ability to keep from getting upset or offended by the things other people say and do”. The question posed in this blog is whether we need…

I recently came across the term “individualization” when I took the Clifton Strengths test. It is one of the natural talents identified by Gallup. The test is at https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253868/popular-cliftonstrengths-assessment-products.aspx (it is not free, but well worth the cost). Having given credit where it is due, for the remainder of this…