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Common Good Vermont: Worklife Balance - Steps to Organizational Wellness with NFP 02/09/2018

How can nonprofits support a culture of work-life balance? Wellness plans are one key step to supporting a culture of work-life balance. What is a wellness plan? Join us as we speak with NFP about strategies, benefits, and programs nonprofits can implement to support wellness in your organization. One of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms, NFP offers commercial insurance, corporate benefits, and private client resources.

Common Good Vermont: Worklife Balance - The Mindful Path to Workplace Productivity with Porter Knight 01/18/2018

Nonprofit workplaces can be filled with distraction, stress, and overwhelming demands. What can individuals and organizations do to reduce burnout and restore focus, calm, and positivity? Common Good Vermont's Barrie Silver speaks with productivity Trainer Porter Knight about mindful approaches and policy changes to boost attention and performance in the workplace.

Common Good Vermont: Worklife Balance: Integrate Renewal into Your Busy Day 03/16/2017

Susan believes that “balance” is a misnomer for what most of us are seeking in life: instead, she’s a fan of what some have called work-life integration.  The idea is to craft ways of integrating your major activities so that your work enriches the development your mind, body and spirit in ways that serve your personal growth; and reciprocally, so that your personal life energizes and propels your work. The goal, then, becomes generating a virtuous cycle of renewal as opposed to “managing” competing demands.  We’ll discuss with Susan some recommended strategies for promoting our integration and renewal, including the practice of spending an hour every day – combined – attending playfully to our bodies, our creativity, and our spirit (i.e. connecting with someone or something larger than ourselves).   

Susan_Palmer Head Shot - SquareSusan Palmer is an international leadership coach and consultant who specializes in helping change agents increase the potency of their authentic presence in order to achieve more of the results they seek for themselves, their teams and organizations.  She is the author of Seasons of Leadership: A Self-Coaching Guide, a handbook with essays and coaching questions that explores how the cycle of leadership mirrors the cycle of the seasons

Common Good Vermont: Worklife Balance - Calm within the Storm: Finding Inner Balance 02/09/2017

Porter Knight

Staying focused is key to productivity, but focus is hard when you feel overwhelmed. As a Productivity Trainer, Porter Knight offers tangible strategies to achieving inner balance so you can get more done with less stress. We’ll explore the nature of balance, the role of intention, and how the neuroscience of choice impacts our experience.

Porter Knight is a dynamic and popular presenter, life-changing consultant, and author of two books: Organized to Last: 5 Simple Steps to Staying Organized and Get Paid to Win Clients: Public Speaking as a Marketing Tool. A nationally-recognized industry leader, she was one of the first in the nation to achieve the credential of Certified Professional Organizer®, and developed the industry’s flagship education courses, “Introduction to Professional Organizing” and “Starting an Organizing Business.”

Common Good Vermont: Worklife Balance is Dead: How to Live Well Anyway 01/26/2017

Balance is a continual, internal process that can be integrated into your daily routine. Flip Brown offers ten tips to help make being at work better by shifting your perspective, setting boundaries and cultivating healthy detachment. 

Flip BrownFlip Brown started Business Culture Consultants August of 2000, based on the  assessment that owners, leaders, and managers would benefit from a personalized way to “get out of their own way.” He provides executive coaching, management consultation, and facilitation services in client organizations, and two annual transformational workshops the (at Esalen and Breitenbush retreat centers).

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