Joyful Museums

I'm tracking museum worker engagement over time!
Please help by filling out the 2017 survey.

Are we happier at work than in 2016?
Looking for a new job?
Feeling less safe in your office?

Let me know! Thanks in advance!

2017 Worker Engagement survey – Joyful Museums I’m continuing to track museum worker engagement and I need your help. Will you spend 10 minutes completing the survey? I want to gather data from you, my fellow colleagues in the field, that will allow us all to see trends, identify areas for improvement, and track progress in our efforts to make w...

Happy Friday of a long weekend!

39 Fun Museum Facts - mental_floss List Show Ep. 426 A weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John shares some little known facts about museums around the wor...

Ladies, should we up and move to Seattle?

In Seattle art world, women run the show Women have not only shattered the glass ceiling at the region’s art museums, they are influencing the shows that are mounted, the artists who are commissioned, and the people who are hired.

Fascinating/depressing new study out:

"Marriage and fatherhood significantly increase male artistic workers earnings--without any such premium for female artistic workers."

Not only in Hollywood: Gender pay gap persists in the arts

A post after my own heart!

Why it’s Important to Find Joy in Your Work - Productivityist If you’re struggling to find joy in your work, it’s important you take the time to figure out why. Because you're worth it.

"Multitasking increases stress hormones and adrenaline."

7 Reasons to Ditch Multitasking Here are some of the most important reasons that multitasking is bad for you. A quick tip: Don't try to do anything else while you read them.

A gentle reminder.

You Don’t Have to Say Yes to Every Opportunity It’s hard to say no to great opportunities, even when you don’t actually have time for them or they’re not in line with your top priorities. Let’s face it: Most of us succeed early in our careers by saying yes to almost everything. We’re afraid to say no, so we overcommit. But learning to say […]

These are true and kind of hilarious.

28 Things We All Do At Work Things We All Do When Checking Email Open an email, read it, then mark it as Unread so you deal with it later. Reread the email you just read because you w

ICYMI: Here's an awesome recap of our AAM session last week. So much shared! Still so much to do!

What we talk about when we (don't) talk about women in museums: #museumwomen at AAM (with... Anne Ackerson, Joan Baldwin, Jessica Ferey, and Marieke Van Damme presented about gender equity in museums at the American Alliance of Museums, May 28, 2016.

I've got you, friends!

I've been experimenting with this and I think it is working? At the very least, I'm more aware of my productivity levels day to day.

A Google Exec on How to Organize Your Workweek

Listing your failures -- depressing and/or cathartic? It reinforces the "learning from your mistakes" mentality and could highlight patterns. Might also prep you for an interview.

Hail to the Fail, My Failure Resume I heard about the failure resume earlier this year in a presentation given by Tina Seelig of Stanford University (she got the idea from a professor at Penn State University).