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January 8, 2017 By Sharon Weinstein

Are You Managing Human Resources or Human Lives?

 

Do you want to be valued as a product or as a human being?  Chances are that you have thought about this concept during an especially frustrating day at work, or after a long sequence of stressful experiences. Why does it matter?  It matters because today, more than ever before, employees are feeling undervalued, less recognized, and overwhelmed. Employees are stressed, and at the core of much of this stress is the work environment.  Within many industries, we have mastered the importance of a healing environment. How much attention do we give to lighting, lack of clutter, better views, privacy, HVAC, healthy plants, and art?  Can the work environment be supportive and human-centered?  Can it be less overwhelming?

Overwhelmed Employees

The concepts of work-life balance have been lost, thanks to a proliferation of technology and the breakdown in barriers between work and life. When your work life and personal life blend together under the guise of “multi-tasking,” both suffer. When you are at work, focus on the job to be done. When you are finished with work, don’t bring it home with you. Make time for your personal life. If your work materials are dispersed throughout nearly every room of your house, you have no place for a real retreat. You’re not spending high-quality time with friends or family members if you’re talking on your cell phone or checking your e-mail when you’re with family.  The sheer complexity of our lives creates internal distress and can wreak havoc on our bodies. And, we do it in the name of being the ‘loyal employee’ also known as ‘human capital.’  It has become so intense that the focus on human capital management (HCM) has intensified.

Human Capital Management: the new HR

HCM is an approach to employee staffing that perceives people as assets whose current value can be measured and whose future value can be enhanced through investment.  Have you given much thought to investing in your people, because according to master people manager, Sam Walton, “The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.”

Think about HCM as a responsibility for attracting, developing and managing the firm’s biggest asset:  people. Are you managing human capital/resources or human lives in your organization?  An organization that supports HCM provides employees with clearly defined and consistently communicated performance expectations. Managers are responsible for rating, rewarding, and holding employees accountable for achieving specific business goals, creating innovation and supporting improvement.  An organization that supports and manages human lives puts its people first and creates an experience for them.  Let’s talk about your own expectations!

Expectation or Experience

Chances are that at one time you were an ‘employee.’  As an employee, did you want a job or an experience? And, if it was the job you were after, which by the way is often referred to as ‘just over broke,’ did it meet your expectations?  Did you feel recognized, valued, appreciated, and were you a part of the team? 

If it was the experience you were after, perhaps you joined an organization like Apple, where every day is just that – an experience!  Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, was famous for this statement, “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?  And whenever the answer had been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I knew I need to change something.”

Today’s human resources departments are so much more than a single representative, handling claims and pushing papers.  Today’s human resources departments may be known as ‘Capital Management, or ‘Talent Management.’  And while much of today’s workforce is highly talented, is that talented pool taking up space or actually engaged in the work process?  Nearly 40% of the US workforce now works part time. Baby boomers who lost their jobs are often out of work for 18-24 months. Millennials want more creative jobs and they want to work for startups (or for themselves). And everyone wants work to be easier, less punishing, and more meaningful.  Yes, everyone, including you, wants something, and often that ‘something’ is to be valued as a person, and treated with respect.

 Managing Lives

How do we define the relationship between employers and employees?  How do we view the dedicated employee?  If we follow the Sam Walton model, we know that how we treat the employee is how the employee will treat the customer or client.  For years, in marketing programs across the country, we studied our internal and external customers.  We knew that we had to add value to our internal customers if we wanted to succeed.

Filed Under: C-Suite, Celebrations, CEO, CFO, CIO, Clout, Consulting, Environment, Hospitals, Human Resources, Success, Talent Management, Work-Life Balance, Workplace Stress Tagged With: balance, empower, enrich, goal-setting, Human lives, Human Resources, organization, SharonMWeinstein, SMWGroup, speaker, Stress, success, time management, Wellness

November 27, 2016 By Sharon Weinstein

What’s in a name?

Is your name more famous than you are?  What’s in a name? I once had a neighbor named John Carson; when he made a hotel or airline reservation, he used the name ‘Johnny Carson.’  Don’t you think that he got a great seat, or an upgrade to first class or a suite?  Names can also be a detriment. What if your name is that of a misdirected politician (think John Edwards), or a serial killer? Does your website reflect your actual name? Does you brand reflect who and what you are? Have you ever been mistaken for someone else, or had someone pull back when you introduced yourself by your ‘real name?’

The world is filled with John Carsons, Michael Jacksons, Chris Browns, Elizabeth Taylors and Brad Pitts forced to field comments about their more famous namesakes. download Many people share their names with famous people, including:

  • Justin Bieber from Jacksonville
  • Beyoncé from New York
  • Matt LeBlanc from Canada
  • Bill Gates from Chicago
  • Sandra Bullock from Connecticut
  • Kate Middleton from Brisbane
  • John Carson from Denton

Is your name an icebreaker, or a nuisance?  Is your name more famous than you?

 

Filed Under: C-Suite, CEO, CFO, Clout, Consulting, Names, Public speaking, Workplace Stress Tagged With: balance, Educate, personal development, self-development, speaker, success, work

September 29, 2016 By Sharon Weinstein

Preferment…the new retirement

Today I spoke to a speaker colleague who told me that she ‘retired’ from accounting to begin her speaking career. Yesterday, it was a nurse who told me that she ‘retired’ from clinical practice to begin her coaching career. And last week, it was a corporate executive who told me that he ‘retired’ from manufacturing to pursue his consulting career.

Were they retired, still working, working part-time, or picking and choosing those projects with which they wanted to align themselves? Nearly all of the responses addressed the concept of ‘picking and choosing’ or preferring one project over another and one subset of professionals with whom to work over another. Did each of these professionals actually retire…to begin the next phase of their lives? Or, did they extend into the arena known as “PREFERMENT” meaning that they now get to do what they want, with whom they want, and when they want?

My own professional colleagues vary in age group from millennials to the C-suite and from sometime work to full-time plus work. Having worked full-time plus in the past, logging over 100 hours per week, 3 countries per week for over 10 years, I fully understand the idea of ‘picking and choosing’ one’s activities and potential partners.

Still intrigued, I researched the word and discovered the concept of prefermented dough to improve quality naturally and traditionally. Great concept, but being a non-bread maker, the term did not meet my immediate needs. Preferment is also the name of a champion horse; a non-equestrian, I continued my search for the right description. I was seeking information on what happens post-official retirement – in the healthy, seasoned professional population.

I can easily relate to the idea of retirement as a significant milestone and adjustment for my peers. Healthy, financially secure and energetic, they are revisioning postretirement life and moving from the comfortable rocking chair to a state of preferment, with an opportunity to refocus on new structure and purpose, including time for leisure, continuous learning, new pursuits, and perhaps encore careers.

It’s not retirement, it’s preferment, because this phase of one’s life provides the opportunity to do the things you prefer and are most meaningful to you. Only you can determine what those things are. Only you can identify where you want to spend your time and with whom. Only you can decide whose lives you want to impact and in what ways. As professionals, those of us in the clinical arena or in academia have been blessed with extensive careers during which we have done meaningful work. We are the seasoned professionals!

The word preferment is perfect for the new retirement. Regardless of their past positions, my colleagues are adopting this term as one of endearment and creating their own next Act…the one that will ignite their passion, bring fulfillment, and be preferred. Speaker – Coach – Consultant…they are excited about what the future will bring!

About Sharon:

Life Balance…it is what I do and who I am! I work with organizations that want to learn how life balance can drive safety, satisfaction, and success!

Sharon is an energetic, motivating and highly skilled professional speaker and author specializing in work/life balance. After all, she wrote the book.   She is the founder of SharonMWeinstein, an LLC and two not-for-profits.

 She holds the coveted Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, the highest earned international recognition for professional speakers. This makes her one of only 12% of all speakers to hold this designation and one of only 22 nurses in the world with this credential.  www.sharonmweinstein.com

 

 

Filed Under: C-Suite, Celebrations, CEO, CFO, CIO, Clout, Coaching, Consulting, Dreams, Health & Wellness, Public speaking, Retirement, Work-Life Balance, Workplace Stress Tagged With: balance, coaching, commitment, consulting, development, empower, Encouragement, goal-setting, Public Speaker, self-development, SharonMWeinstein, smwgroupllc, speaker, time management, vision board

December 3, 2014 By Sharon Weinstein

I’m with SHArone….

As the US Advisor to the Kremlin Hospital in Moscow, officially known as The Government Medical Center of the President of the Russian Federation or CCH, I had access to the facility that few Americans had been granted (except of course for Bill Clinton and Al Gore).  When I entered the 10 corpus (building) complex, I was always warmly welcomed by the security guards. After all, I ‘belonged.’  One year, my sister and brother-in-law (who had worked with me on photo shoots throughout the NIS/CEE countries), arrived at the CCH campus in a private car.  As they approached the gate, they did not have the designated clearance and passes.  My sister promptly said, “We’re with SHArone…”  The gate opened and they were waved on!  It pays to be with SHArone!Opening at CCH 93

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