Category: employee engagement

• Opportunity, or just an opening?

  

  There’s a difference between an opportunity and an opening. While pondering a change of employment lately, I realized these three things: An opportunity pushes you to grow. An opening just lets you continue being as you are. An opportunity pushes you to do new things. An opening just lets you continue doing the same-old tasks…

  Claire Maria Ford

  January 17, 2020

  dreams, employee engagement, goal-setting, growth, growth mindset, human resources, initiative, personal development, progress, school, self-care, workplace wellbeing

• When saying good-bye is hard to do

  

  ‘There must be around ten people who have left the company lately‘, complained one of my students this week, as he went on to admit that he found it hard.   As I asked questions, his colleague joined the conversation and I could feel the turmoil, questioning and well, sadness at the state of affairs.…

  Claire Maria Ford

  September 18, 2019

  connecting, Culture, employee engagement, human resources, industrial relations, leadership, Mindfulness, productivity, responsibility, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  employee departures, employee movement, quit, resignation

• Teachers, you lead your students, but do you lead yourself, too?

  

  Brené Brown defines a leader as one who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes and has the courage to develop that potential (Dare to Lead, Random House, NY, 2018, p. 4). That is what you, as a teacher, do every day. In and out of the classroom, during school hours and…

  Claire Maria Ford

  September 2, 2019

  employee engagement, esl, failure, growth, growth mindset, human resources, leadership, Mindfulness, self-care, Uncategorized

  authenticity, dare, lead, Mindfulness, school year, self-care, september, teacher, teacher life, teaching, wholeness