Now, I think you’re great as you are, but we do all need to grow, whether it’s at work or in our personal lives. Do you want to get promoted? Are you struggling with health issues? Do you have a history of getting fired? Whatever the case, how can you implement changes so that they…
Are you waiting for a promotion that never actually happens? If you’ve been at your organization for a few years and are doing excellent work but still you don’t have the promotion you want, it can feel like real progress is simply out of your reach. You try and try, but no dice. It’s so…
Have you heard all this “quiet quitting” buzz over the last couple of weeks? There is much hand-wringing and bemoaning the entitlement of these here young people. So let me clear it up: Quiet quitting isn’t a thing. It’s. Not. Real. Have you read the descriptions? Workers not volunteering for extra shifts. …
A bad boss can make your work a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be. If you’re floundering because of one, you’re not alone. As has been said over and over, people leave managers, not companies. In my experience, one of the hardest bosses to deal with is the passive-aggressive personality. For…
As a friend of mine likes to say, humans gotta hume, so there are almost certainly going to be times you disagree with someone, and some of those times might even be pretty emotional. But what do you do when that someone is your boss? Well, there are a few things to keep in…
In honor of Valentine’s Day, today’s post is all about love! Not candy hearts and romantic poetry, mind you, but the kind of love you get when you truly enjoy your job. Not everyone needs or even wants to love what they do, but if you do, you’re not alone. Many of us find…
This is something I hear all too often from my clients. By the time most of us are uncomfortable enough to take action, things on the work front are pretty grim. They’re stressed all the time, Mondays feel like poison, and they have to sit in the parking lot and talk themselves into those last…
You’ve probably heard news reports about The Great Resignation, but where are the jobs and what does all this mean for you? Here’s a quick video!
Many of us have been taught that we have to be “professional” at work, meaning we can’t let our personal lives impact what we do in the office. But that’s both impossible and not actually beneficial to anyone! A lot of people feel pressure to conform to whatever standards they see in the office,…
The July holiday, for obvious reasons, always makes me think about independence and what it means to each of us, particularly as it relates to work. (Yes, I’m pretty much always thinking about the world of work.) The sensation of appropriate freedom at work can be enormously important to us, but it’s also very individual.…