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Good Grief: Beginning at the End

When your workplace is reorganized--again--take time to reevaluate your personal mission and desires and bring them to life.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: The Most Potent Factor in the Success Equation

Star performers can be differentiated from average ones by emotional intelligence.

Overcome Terminal Seriousness: Let Go, Laugh, and Lighten Up!

This article examines physiological and psychological benefits of laughter and humor. These are essential tools that can successfully combat the stress and pressure of the preoperative environment. Used in tandem with life balancing skills, they can enrich the work arena and help nurses rekindle passion and meaning in their lives.

Saving Your Career in the 21st Century

This article addresses the fundamental and dramatic changes that case managers must undergo internally to keep pace with a rapidly and radically changing work environment as we move into the next millenium. The work paradigm is transforming from a model of well-defined job descriptions and clearly articulated career ladders within organizations to a fluid workforce in which individuals must now view themselves as a mobile portfolio of skills responding to particular needs within organizations. Hence, case managers must retool their thinking, unlearn old beliefs that hinder success, and learn to manage their careers as microbusinesses within their organizations. This new model is founded on self-responsibility, entrepreneurial aptitude, vision and personal empowerment. Taking charge of one's career and consciously directing it is a dramatic departure from the norm for most individuals. There is a widely held tendency in our culture to define ourselves by our job titles. This is both an antiquated and myopic view that needs to be discarded to succeed in the future. Health care is a dynamic and evolving industry that requires forward-thinking, flexible, solutions-oriented people. The time is upon case managers to undergo a personal renaissance to artfully position themselves for success in the next millennium.

Balancing Life's Choices--All Dressed Up and Too Many Places to Go

One of the most common types of stress among people in the health care profession is burnout. Saving lives, supporting people's heath, confronting extreme danger, and patching people back together demands an enormous amount of physical and emotional energy. There are several factors that can lead nurses to getting burned out and becoming dissatisfied and unhealthy. As nurses try to juggle too many balls while wearing too many hats, they can get swept up in a rapid-fire pace that leaves them unhappy and disconnected. The many pressures and constant barrage of technology and media have caused many individuals to actively pursue balance in the same way they once sought upward mobility. This article offers practical steps that nurses can take to retool their lives into a meaningful journey of fulfillment and responsible choices, founded on self-insight and reflection. AORN J 68 (Oct 1998) 634-641

7 Keys to 21st Century Leadership

As we try to figure out how to lead, provide motivational environments and plan for the future in today's uncharted work environment, we must recognize that being a 21st Century Leader requires new behaviors and new learnings.

Coping with Chaos and Change

You can learn strategies that will help you through the emotional wilderness of organizational transition.

Is Humor Healing?

Personal experience is the way to learn about the powerful healing energy that is inherent in the use of humor skills.

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