Episode 83: Embracing Personal Uncertainty and Change Whilst Being Our Best at Work

enAugust 21, 2023

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About this Episode

How is your home life? Perfect and all unfolding the way you planned it out? I suspect not. Whilst there's a huge focus on employee experiences and employee engagement, we can often forget the human beings experiencing life outside of work, trying to cope with the uncertainty life throws at us, and the constant change we are having to deal with. This week, Amrit shares his own challenges over the summer that made him reflect on how hard we can be on ourselves, trying to control things we cannot, whilst feeling guilty about not being our best at work. Embracing Personal Uncertainty and Change Whilst Being our Best at Work - the topic of this week's podcast.

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