Tag: Self management
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Managers and burnout – put your own oxygen mask on first!
Managers and burnout – put your own oxygen mask on first! One of the new trends observed in the Ombud’s Office in 2022 was supervisors feeling a lack of support. As the CERN Ombud Annual Report for 2022 highlights: “The few managers who come to discuss challenging managerial situations with the Ombud complain of lack
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No, don’t do anything!
No, don’t do anything! My first duty as Ombud is to listen actively to the visitors who, in my office, explain the challenging situation they’re facing. Listening actively to them enables me to understand the situation, measure the impact that the problem is having on them and get a sense of what their goals are.
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CERN’s psychologists are here for you
CERN’s psychologists are here for you Among the various support channels that CERN makes available to its community are the Medical Service’s two independent psychologists, Katia Schenkel and Sébastien Tubau (https://hse.cern/content/psychologist). I had the pleasure of meeting them to prepare this article. Consulting a psychologist is often perceived by the colleagues who come to see
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A brain-friendly approach to providing feedback
A brain-friendly approach to providing feedback Much has been written by my Ombud predecessors, at this time of the year when performance reviews take place, on how to approach these discussions and how to provide feedback, whether top-down or bottom-up. You may wish to have another look at their analysis and advice, which remain very
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Mutual learning: let’s give it a chance in 2023!
Mutual learning: let’s give it a chance in 2023! As 2023 starts, let me wish you all a great year and assure you all of my support! The CERN community is very keen – and rightly so – to underline that collaboration is in our DNA. This is something that I am particularly proud of,
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Let’s make the most of the end-of-year break
Let’s make the most of the end-of-year break As the year draws to a close, many of us will be thinking about the good and the not so good developments of the last 12 months – in both our private and our professional lives. This year has brought us all plenty of bad news, not
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The harm that misunderstandings can cause
The harm that misunderstandings can cause The origin of the word “misunderstanding” is clear: it combines the prefix “mis-”, meaning badly or wrongly, with the noun “understanding”. So a misunderstanding is when something has been understood wrongly. Very often in the Ombud’s Office, when visitors come to see me about a conflict and we explore
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Quiet quitting
Quiet quitting Although I am very much aware of inter-generational differences, I had not realised how the millennial and Gen Z attitude to work could be, in general, so different from the mindset of Baby Boomers (my generation). The subject of attitudes towards work came up naturally during a recent conversation I had with two
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Coping with pervasive anxiety
Coping with pervasive anxiety Thursday, 28 July was Earth Overshoot Day – the date when humanity has consumed all the resources that the earth can sustainably produce for the entire year. This information, heard first thing in the morning on the radio, just added to all the other bad news being broadcast daily by the
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A duty of care to junior colleagues
A duty of care to junior colleagues “Can you imagine? Taking part in the largest scientific experiment in the world. CERN needs more than physicists and engineers – if you’re a student, a graduate, just starting your career or an experienced professional, whatever your field of expertise, CERN could be your next opportunity. Find out