Embrace the New Year's potential for growth! Change often brings fear, especially in professional and organizational contexts. Are you or your organization experiencing:
Anxiety about professional advancement or organizational changes?
Uncertainty regarding restructuring, transformation, or other institutional changes?
Irritation, low morale, or disengagement since the announcements of changes?
Complaints or concerns about upcoming annual reviews, new systems/processes, or operational changes?
Join us for a session where we'll assess your stress levels, identify areas in your life that may be out of sync, and explore practical tools to help you move from feeling "burnt out" to "better." We'll acknowledge and normalize the difficult emotions and challenges that often arise during the holidays, and in recent years, for both ourselves and our loved ones. You'll leave with a concrete action plan to move forward with strategies that will work for you and your life's realities, whatever season you're in!
Online or at Rubenstein 414AB, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge
This hybrid event will be a panel discussion between R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; and David Autor, Ford Professor and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT Department of Economics. It will be moderated by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Aparna Mathur. Refreshments will be served for those joining us in person in the Democracy Lab (R414AB). Others should register to join us remotely via Zoom.
Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it, research shows. These "time-poor" people experience less joy each day, laugh less often, and are less healthy—and they are also less productive. How can we escape the time traps that can consume our days and make us miserable?
In the new book Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life, author and Harvard Business School Professor Ashley Whillans says we need to consciously take steps to improve our "time affluence." The book provides research-...