#work-life bloom

[danpontefract]

Gold Medal Win for 'Work-Life Bloom'

I'm pretty stoked. I'm no Olympian, but I just won a Gold Medal! #WorkLifeBloom 🏅🌸

To my delighted surprise (proving that maybe it’s not just my coffee game that’s strong), my latest book, Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, has won the Gold Medal in the Leadership category at the Axiom Business Book Awards. This unexpected honour is more than just an award—it’s a reminder that rethinking the way we integrate our work and life is starting to take shape. In…

View On WordPress

[danpontefract]

First Review: Work-Life Bloom

The first public review of my next book, Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, has now been released. I’d say it’s pretty good! My thanks to Diane Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review, for the following book review of Work-Life Bloom: Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes is a study in career moves, nurturing talent, and moving from individual to group…

View On WordPress

[danpontefract]

The Trust Factor: A Prerequisite for a Blooming Work and Life

In a world where honesty is often proclaimed as a core value in our organizations, the reality in many workplaces is quite different. Trust has turned to rust. In my Global Work-Life Assessment that I conducted with nearly 10,000 people from 11 different countries—aligned to my upcoming book Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes—a US-based Baby Boomer director in the education…

View On WordPress

[danpontefract]

Work-Life BLOOM July Playlist: The Ballads of Slow and Low - Part I

I am the first to admit that I can get tear up over a song. Play a few of them back-to-back and there is the chance for a river to form. The Work-Life Bloom July Playlist is dedicated to our emotions, slowing down, and to reflecting on our lives. From Gord Downie’s homage to his late grandmother in Toronto #4 with The Tragically Hip, or Regina Spektor’s haunting cover of “Real Love,” John…

View On WordPress

[danpontefract]

Work-Life BLOOM April Playlists: The Beatles & Classic '80s 12" Remixes Throwback (Vol 2)

As a prepubescent child and young teen, I would often lock myself away in the “sun room” of our modest home, plug in my dad’s RCA Victor Wired White Black Headphones, and escape to the sounds of The Beatles. When no one was home, I’d ditch the headphones and play the music as loud as I could. Or at least until I got a knock at the door from Mr. Filepetto, our tomato-growing yet irascible…

View On WordPress

[danpontefract]

I Fed ChatGPT-4 The Entire Manuscript Of My Upcoming Book: Then I Asked To Compare It To Other Leadership Books

My next book, Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team That Flourishes, has just finished the structural/substantive editing phase. That’s a fancy way of saying the book is done, but it’s full of grammatical errors. Hello, copy-editing phase! As I continue to experiment with ChatGPT-4 in my spare cycles, I thought I’d feed Ole Chatty the entire manuscript, teaching it the book and accompanying…

View On WordPress

[danpontefract]

Introducing the Work-Life BLOOM Playlists

In my continued attempts to become an Apple Music DJ like my fellow Canadian, the mighty George (Strombo) Stroumboulopoulos, I figured my upcoming book needed a curated series of music playlists. Here is Volume I of the Work-Life Bloom Music Playlist.

Actually, maybe these should be called the “Work-Life Boom” playlists. In my continued attempts to become an Apple Music DJ / host like my fellow Canadian, the mighty George (Strombo) Stroumboulopoulos, I figured my upcoming book needed a curated series of music playlists. Like wine to meals or SPF 50 lotion to my very British skin, these book-music pairings are my attempts to create some…

View On WordPress

[danpontefract]

How Effort Troughs And Open dialogue Can Help Prevent Burnout

The reality is a lot of people work more than 40 hours per week at given times of the year. As a result, leaders can help prevent burnout by adding two key leadership tasks to their action list. #leadership #burnout #prevention #leaders

Because an increasing number of people are experiencing burnout, leaders of need to pay much closer attention to the amount of effort that their members put in. The long-term effects of working more than 40 hours per week are not sustainable. But those in positions of authority are keenly aware of the fact that it does happen. The solution to the problem can be found in two ways: effort troughs…

View On WordPress