All Work And Some Play

Author : Kristen Toohill,Scott Crabtree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798622515866

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All Work and Some Play by Kristen Toohill,Scott Crabtree Pdf

Wouldn't it be great to develop high-impact, transferable soft skills by playing fun games at work? Wouldn't it be even better if those games helped future-proof your career against artificial intelligence? We know developing soft skills is not easy; the 'soft stuff' is often, in reality, the hardest part of our work. But scientific data and experience suggest that playing games is one of the most effective ways to develop valuable, uniquely human skills. In this science-based book, you will learn about the 21st-century human skills your team needs to flourish in a world of advancing AI, and how each of those skills can be taught by playing games. You'll discover:* An in-depth exploration of each of the skills: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity/innovation* Several specific game suggestions to develop each 21st-century skill* Real-life stories about the powerful impact of playing games at work* A step-by-step guide to facilitating game sessions for best resultsWe will show that playing games doesn't just improve your soft skills. Play can also boost employee engagement, work relationships, personal happiness, and business results. It's your turn; game on!

Author : Dale Sidebottom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780730391647

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All Work No Play by Dale Sidebottom Pdf

Explore effective strategies to improve your mental health, and the health of your colleagues and employees, with this engaging and practical book All Work No Play: A Surprising Guide to Feeling More Mindful, Grateful and Cheerful is a practical and rewarding handbook for reconnecting with joy and happiness daily. The book shares strategies for play-based mindfulness, empathy, and gratitude exercises that will help readers rediscover their inner child; promote good mental health; build and foster more meaningful connections with others; and help combat loneliness and deep-rooted toxic behaviors and thoughts. You’ll learn to: Recognize and become self-aware of thoughts blocking your way to healthy relationships and attitudes Prioritize mental wellbeing in your daily life and put an end to burnout and fatigue Use visual tools and self-assessment forms to guide you through exercises that will increase your happiness, focus, and productivity Perfect for anyone who hopes to improve their ability to take joy and happiness from their daily routines, All Work No Play is also ideal for businesses who wish to improve the health and wellbeing of their employees and colleagues.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Adam L. Penenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101623022

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Play at Work by Adam L. Penenberg Pdf

Do games hold the secret to better productivity? If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft while the world collectively devotes about 5 million hours per day to Angry Birds. A colossal waste of time? Perhaps. But what if we could tap into all the energy, engagement, and brainpower that people are already expending and use it for more creative and valuable pursuits? Harnessing the power of games sounds like a New-Age fantasy, or at least a fad that’s only for hip start-ups run by millennials in Silicon Valley. But according to Adam L. Penenberg, the use of smart game design in the workplace and beyond is taking hold in every sector of the economy, and the companies that apply it are witnessing unprecedented results. “Gamification” isn’t just for consumers chasing reward points anymore. It’s transforming, well, just about everything. Penenberg explores how, by understanding the way successful games are designed, we can apply them to become more efficient, come up with new ideas, and achieve even the most daunting goals. He shows how game mechanics are being applied to make employees happier and more motivated, improve worker safety, create better products, and improve customer service. For example, Microsoft has transformed an essential but mind-numbing task—debugging software—into a game by having employees compete and collaborate to find more glitches in less time. Meanwhile, Local Motors, an independent automaker based in Arizona, crowdsources designs from car enthusiasts all over the world by having them compete for money and recognition within the community. As a result, the company was able to bring a cutting-edge vehicle to market in less time and at far less cost than the Big Three automakers. These are just two examples of companies that have tapped the characteristics that make games so addictive and satisfying. Penenberg also takes us inside organizations that have introduced play at work to train surgeons, aid in physical therapy, translate the Internet, solve vexing scientific riddles, and digitize books from the nineteenth century. Drawing on the latest brain science as well as his firsthand reporting from these cutting-edge companies, Penenberg offers a powerful solution for businesses and organizations of all stripes and sizes.

Author : Roche, David,Roche, Megan
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781492567646

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The Happy Runner by Roche, David,Roche, Megan Pdf

Is your daily run starting to drag you down? Has running become a chore rather than the delight it once was? Then The Happy Runner is the answer for you. Authors David and Megan Roche believe that you can’t reach your running potential without consistency and joyful daily adventures that lead to long-term health and happiness. Guided by their personal experiences and coaching expertise, they point out the mental and emotional factors that will help you learn exactly how to become a happy runner and achieve your personal best.

Author : David Stevens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781300888482

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The Art and Craft of Play Directing by David Stevens Pdf

Theatre is an interpretive art based upon a director's emotional reaction to reading a play and imagining a production of that play. Before the audience experiences the production, the director must go through a process, part art and part craft, to create it. This book is intended to introduce undergraduate students with a solid theatre background to that process. Stevens includes chapters covering theatre and art, the interpretation of the script, composition and movement, working with actors, and matters of style. Each chapter contains exercises in order for students to consolidate what they have learned. The complete text of John Millington Synge's "Riders to the Sea" is included as an example and study text, and Stevens relates many examples from his own rich directing background. Twenty production photos, two sample floor plans, and numerous diagrams round out the text. The study of directing is a life-long project, and in this book Stevens provides a basis for that study.

Author : Daniel D. Scherschel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438974927

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Work and Play in Southern Indiana by Daniel D. Scherschel Pdf

WORK AND PLAY in southern Indiana" is the third in a series of my books. It is in the time of the 1970's and 1980's. In it is some things learned working construction and then at a foundry. Also are thoughts on three wheelers, rafting creeks and walking through train tunnels. My first book MAPLE GROVE, was of growing up on a dairy farm. My second book, MAPLE GROVE THE 60's, was of some things I learned during my teenage years. Wanting to save stories for my grandchildren, I bought a computer in 1990 and started compiling my hand written writings. I am just an average person with my average stories. People seem to enjoy relating to these average stories, remembering their version of life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Clermont County (Ohio)
ISBN : WISC:89061921177

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History of Clermont County, Ohio by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Sports
ISBN : MINN:319510009255538

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Outing and the Wheelman by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Amerland
Publisher : New Line Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1844811697

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Intentional by David Amerland Pdf

Live your life the way you want to. Manage stress better. Be more resilient and enjoy meaningful relationships and better health. We all want that. Such life leads to better choices, better jobs, loving romantic partners, more rewarding careers and decisions that are fully aligned with our aims. What stops us from getting all that is the complexity of our brain and the complicated way in which the external world comes together. The misalignment between the internal states we experience and the external circumstances we encounter often leads to confusion, a lack of clarity in our thinking and actions that are not consistent with our professed values. Intentional is a gameplan. It helps us connect the pieces of our mind to the pieces of our life. It shows us how to map what we feel to what has caused those feelings. It helps us understand what affects us and what effects it has on us. It makes it possible for us to determine what we want, why we want it and what we need to do to get it. When we know what to do, we know how to behave. When we know how to behave we know how to act. When we know how to act, we know how to live. Our actions, each day, become our lives. Drawn from the latest research from the fields of neuroscience, behavioral and social psychology and evolutionary anthropology, Intentional shows how to add meaning to our actions and lead a meaningful, happier, more fulfilling life on our terms.

Author : Elizabeth Hale Gilman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664576385

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The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping by Elizabeth Hale Gilman Pdf

The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping is a book by Elizabeth Hale Gilman. It covers the basics of housekeeping including care of fittings and furniture, the kitchen, cooking and washing and ironing.

Author : Shirley Brice Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521841979

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Words at Work and Play by Shirley Brice Heath Pdf

A thirty year study tracking the changes in family life and language development in 300 working-class families from 1981 onwards.

Author : Dale Sidebottom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780730391623

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All Work No Play by Dale Sidebottom Pdf

Explore effective strategies to improve your mental health, and the health of your colleagues and employees, with this engaging and practical book All Work No Play: A Surprising Guide to Feeling More Mindful, Grateful and Cheerful is a practical and rewarding handbook for reconnecting with joy and happiness daily. The book shares strategies for play-based mindfulness, empathy, and gratitude exercises that will help readers rediscover their inner child; promote good mental health; build and foster more meaningful connections with others; and help combat loneliness and deep-rooted toxic behaviors and thoughts. You’ll learn to: Recognize and become self-aware of thoughts blocking your way to healthy relationships and attitudes Prioritize mental wellbeing in your daily life and put an end to burnout and fatigue Use visual tools and self-assessment forms to guide you through exercises that will increase your happiness, focus, and productivity Perfect for anyone who hopes to improve their ability to take joy and happiness from their daily routines, All Work No Play is also ideal for businesses who wish to improve the health and wellbeing of their employees and colleagues.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Brigid Schulte
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408826690

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Overwhelmed by Brigid Schulte Pdf

______________________ 'Too much to do? Stop and read this' - Guardian 'For a fresh take on an eternal dilemma, Overwhelmed is worth a few hours of any busy woman's life – if only to ensure that she doesn't drop off the bottom of her own “To Do” list' - Mail on Sunday ______________________ In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes until 2 a.m., frantically (but surreptitiously) sent important emails during school trips and then worked long into the night after her children were in bed. Realising she had become someone who constantly burst in late, trailing shoes and schoolbooks and biscuit crumbs, she began to question, like so many of us, whether it is possible to be anything you want to be, have a family and still have time to breathe. So when Schulte met an eminent sociologist who studies time and he told her she enjoyed thirty hours of leisure each week, she thought her head was going to pop off. What followed was a trip down the rabbit hole of busy-ness, a journey to discover why so many of us find it near-impossible to press the 'pause' button on life and what got us here in the first place. Overwhelmed maps the individual, historical, biological and societal stresses that have ripped working mothers' and fathers' leisure to shreds, and asks how it might be possible for us to put the pieces back together. Seeking insights, answers and inspiration, Schulte explores everything from the wiring of the brain and why workplaces are becoming increasingly demanding, to worldwide differences in family policy, how cultural norms shape our experiences at work, our unequal division of labour at home and why it's so hard for everyone – but women especially – to feel they deserve an elusive moment of peace. ______________________ 'Every parent, every caregiver, every person who feels besieged by permanent busyness, must read this book' - Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All