COVID and kindness in sales and life
As the pandemic stretches on, it’s harder and harder to be kind to each other and ourselves. Maybe your patience is stretched thin. You’re bored. You’re sick of take-out or cooking. Maybe you cannot bear to reset your Wi-Fi one more time! COVID can take a lot away from us. But in all of this, […]
Why you’re not getting hired
It’s so discouraging, isn’t it? You think the interview or performance review goes great, and then you get passed over for the job yet again. Are you starting to wonder why you aren’t getting hired? My friend Jennifer works in the Human Resources Department for a large network of hospitals. She conducts the first stage of interviews for her company. She recently told […]
Time to Change Career Paths?
It’s that time again! Another year is coming to a close (thank goodness, right??), so it’s time to take stock of your personal and professional life, and evaluate your happiness and satisfaction. After the craziness of 2020, are you still being fulfilled? Did you only love going in the office and now work by yourself […]
Gratitude Takes Guts
Gratitude takes guts. If the year 2020 has shown us anything, it’s that there’s a lot that can bring us down. Sometimes it takes more to find the good, the silver lining, the gifts. In 2019, one of my team members had a rough year. Every few weeks, some new tragedy, crisis or health emergency […]
Goal Getter
A friend of mine often tells me about her office coworkers. She really appears to work harder than everyone around her, but often has little to show for it. For as much energy as she pours into work, she is often just spinning her wheels. The truth is, she is actually a hard worker with […]
Knee-capping Your Career
“I just want to remind you this project is due tomorrow!” “Just checking in to see where you are with that assignment.” Have you ever written those sentences? Or what about, “I kinda feel like maybe you should not do that”? What’s wrong with those sentences? It’s called knee-capping! It’s the extra fluff in your vocabulary that makes you feel like […]
Six-Figure Swagger
Recently, talking with my friend Cathy about an upcoming job decision she needed to make, I was stunned when she said she wasn’t sure she deserved such a large jump in pay. Where was her swagger? Two organizations were fighting over her – each one kept upping the salary, perks and benefits, creating very attractive […]
Confidence: Fake It ‘Til Ya Make It
Whether you’ve just graduated, or you’re a seasoned pro, we all have career decisions that give us some anxiety. Recently, a friend’s teenager asked her, “How am I supposed to get a job based on experience if no one will hire me and give me experience?” Knowing that age-old question, my friend explained the concept of “creating […]
Pits, Valleys and Crevasses
Recently, I was reading the story about the man who fell into a deep, tight crevasse while hiking and had to cut off his arm in order to climb out and survive. That’s hardcore. But it got me to thinking: How many of us how been in a hole of a different shape and size? […]
Time Management in a Pandemic
Is it just me, or have you noticed that when we only have one thing on the To–Do List, we get nothing done, but if we have 15 things on the list we get most of them done?? I think it’s all about momentum. For some of us, having lots to do is about time management: We know we need to […]