life@work

Quick Tips on Work-Life Balance

Kent Blumberg wrote a great post on how to restore work/life balance.

It's great because he offers 12 diverse ideas you can digest in a few moments and solutions you can start working on right away. No procrastination required!

Take a look at his list and pick something you can do that would make a big impact. Even a very small change or adjustment can lead to big differences. Commit to starting it right away without a big fuss or analysis session.

Personally I'm taking on setting a few more rules for myself around my home office - when I'm starting and stopping work in any given day, when I'll check email, and when I'll leave it for the night.

What will you take on?

Heather Mundell
Dream Big Coaching Services
www.dreambigcoaching.com
heather@dreambigcoaching.com

Linked In Answers as Networking Tool

One of the most brilliant features of LInkedIn has to be "Answers".

Wondering whether an MBA will help your HR career?
Launching a fashion label in Egypt?
Want to know what people look for in a VP of sales candidate?

LinkedIn's Answers feature allows you to pose a business question to your network (and the connections of everyone in your network). People have seven days to respond.

But wait, there's more! You can browse the questions that are "open" by category to find a subject you know something about, and chime in with your two cents. If your response is chosen as the best answer you become flagged as an "expert".

In the meantime you can become more closely acquainted with all sorts of people, as you give information and assistance and receive information and assistance. Virtual networking at its best.

Of course you need to have people in your network to make this an interesting experience.

LinkedIn's recommendation is that you only add people to your network whom you know and trust, and that makes sense. But I also see the value of having new connections who interest you in some way. I don't see the value in "collecting" hundreds of connections whom you couldn't possibly know or care about.

I'm curious about your own experience with LinkedIn Answers and how you believe it stacks up against other social networking sites' features.

Has it been worth your time? What benefits have you received from it?

Heather Mundell
Dream Big Coaching Services
www.dreambigcoaching.com
heather@dreambigcoaching.com