I’m not a morning person. Anyone who has ever known me will tell you that. According to the internet, that also apparently means that I’m a complete slacker and will never be successful. One such article came across my feeds recently and as I read it, I realized that the entire premise of the article…
I mean, naturally: “Clearly cybersecurity is everybody’s problem.” If you have access to anything that is not publicly available inside and outside of your workplace, then you have some responsibility for keeping it secure. Creating a workplace atmosphere that recognizes that reality is the job of the most senior management. Otherwise, you’ll have a whole…
First off, the headline is accurate, it is very likely that your company doesn’t care about really developing you, unless they have a specific benefit from it. Secondly, this is just a sad statement on management today: “Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and…
This is true, what is also true is that most of these things would be mitigated, and the spread of the virus also mitigated, by having remote employees. The reasons vary as to why workers didn’t use all of their paid sick leave: roughly 73% said they weren’t sick enough, 37% wanted to save them…
Over the weekend, we took a tour of Laura Plantation, about an hour down the Mississippi River from our house. The tour includes a walk through one of the old slave cabins, and the guide talked a bit about not just what a slaves life on a sugar plantation would have been, but also what…
It’s also an important “soft” skill for your career, and in short supply. Helene Moore, PsyD, MAPP, clinical health psychologist at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, says that anyone can train themselves to be a better listener. What’s more? Becoming a better listener is sure to have a positive impact on…