Here are some articles in the news this month I curated that you might be interested in checking out, related to the coaching industry. Every month I grab some articles in the coaching and wellbeing industry that were published or discussed in that month, and curate them into a post to share with you. Check back each month to get a pulse on the industry and be a part of the conversation.
Mothers’ Careers Are at Extraordinary Risk Right Now
This article presents a finding from the 2020 Women in the Workplace Report by LeanIn.org and McKinsey, looking at how the conditions of teleworking and increased child-care demands highlight bias against working mothers. It points to two American cultural beliefs of “the ideal worker” and “the good mother” and how the clash between the two is the cultural backdrop mothers are facing at work, especially during this pandemic.
Read the full article on The Atlantic here.
Rewiring how we work: building a new employee experience for a digital-first world
The Future Forum launched a new Remote Employee Experience Index. The group will now provide quarterly reports to help provide the data that organizations need to navigate remote work. This article shares the results of the first index, as well as the five biggest myths about remote work. It’s full of insights. For instance, mothers in the US have lower work-life balance, productivity and satisfaction with their working arrangement than outside of the US. This isn’t surprising, but it’s worth reading their study.
Read the full article on Slack’s blog here.
Time Confetti and the Broken Promise of Leisure
How we experience time around work and lesiure has come up a lot recently in my coaching with clients. It seems to be on a lot of people’s minds right now as remote work blurs the lines between work and home. This article first looks at the concept of time confetti: fragments of time lost to unproductive multitasking, and how this interrupts our leisure time. And secondly, provides opportunities to better experience your time, and move toward “time affluence” (and away from guilt around fractured time).
Read the full article on Behavioral Scientist here.
Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts
Christopher Riedl, associate professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University and Anita Williams Woolley, associate professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business share their latest research findings on managing the flow of communication among remote teams. Specifically, they look at how bursts of communication support teams and result in more effective communication.
Read the full article on the Harvard Business Review here.
U.K.’s Film and TV Charity Launches Two-Year Program For Better Mental Health in Film and TV
The Film and TV Charity has secured £3 million in funding from Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Sky Studios, Sony, Walt Disney, ViacomCBS, WarnerMedia and others, to deliver mental health and wellbeing programs to the people who work behind the scenes in film, TV and cinema. A study in 2019 of 9,000 professionals in this space identified a mental health crisis in this industry. Additionally, the pandemic has hit this industry hard. Accordingly, this program is pouring resources into supporting an industry-wide effort to address the poor mental health in this sector.
Read the full article on Variety here.
What Health Care Can Teach Other Industries About Preventing Burnout
Dan Marchalik, the Medical Director of Physician Well-being at MedStar Health, writes this piece on what lessons the corporate world can take from the medical world regarding burnout and culture. I enjoyed reading this point of view, and think he points to some important areas to discuss. For example, here’s a tip: let’s move from individual emphasis on preventing burnout to looking at structural changes.
Read the full article on Harvard Business Review here.
Does burnout recovery always require radical change?
We often hear stories of people who emerge from burnout with some radical decision and next adventure, quitting a job and hopping on a boat to sail around the world. However, this article looks at patterns of burnout and suggests a more steady, less radical process of burnout recovery. It turns out that a sense of agency is key to sustained recovery.
Read the full article on the BBC here.
You can read previous months’ Coaching Industry News Roundup here. And stay tuned for November’s roundup on the blog at the end of the month.
Take care!
