By Emily McGuinness
New Year, New Workplace Trends
Recently CNBC posted an article forecasting workplace trends for 2019, stating that “more employees will want to align with employers that have a social mission.” At Leadership Pioneer Valley, we see a desire among our LEAP program participants to connect with a deeper purpose in their work, and we are excited to see this growing trend.
We recently updated our organization’s vision statement to “we strive to create a vibrant Pioneer Valley with accessible, inclusive networks of inspired individuals who are leading and connecting the communities in which they live and work.” Our organization stands on an important social mission. Engaging more leaders in the workplace who are creating social responsibility in their workplaces, and our communities is both exciting and essential.
In another article posted on Wrike, they anticipate a higher emphasis being placed on work-life balance. With mobile devices like cell-phones and tablets making work accessible 24/7, the ratio of work to life is typically unbalanced for most people. 2019 is the year that many will be evaluating how to create more of a barrier between these two worlds, and LPV stands behind this initiative willingly.
Self-care is crucial, even for working professionals that do not feel as though they have the time for it. Eating lunch away from your desk, leaving your work at work, taking that 30 minute break you pretend you don’t have, leaving after your shift is actually over, or even taking a minute to breathe at your desk in between tasks. All of these simple things can help improve a work-life balance and can easily be done right in the office.
Our last LEAP session covered practicing resilience as leaders. A person must know their limits while pushing themselves. Pushing yourself too far is not what you want. It can be easy to get caught up in projects or large undertakings, we get it! But, we are excited to see that there may be a higher value placed on the individual and their personal balance of work and life this year. What are the ways you restore yourself? What are things that you can say “no” to this year?
