“It’s like I’m waiting in line for like a roller coaster and that stupid like butterflies-in-your-stomach feeling you get. I get that all the time. And then I never get the feeling after you ride the roller coaster.” ~ Kayla, a teen describing her anxiety in Bo Burnham’s feature film, [...]
Here are 10 questions to answer, yes or no. What’s changed for you – professionally and personally – as a result of the pandemic? I feel the work I do (or did) has little impact and would like to feel that my work makes more of a difference. I have a very clear idea of a new project [...]
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning my day difficult.” — E.B. White Welcome to 2020! It’s the start of the new year, and for many of us, we reflect on career changes we’d like to make: I want a job [...]
Photo 1: In the studio; Photo 2: With Angela Davis I was recently a guest on MPR’s Angela Davis show discussing introversion in the workplace. Behaviors that are highly regarded in professional settings are often challenging for introverts, such as speaking up in meetings, being outgoing, and [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Make a Job or Career Change: How do you know when it’s time to go? When the StarTribune interviewed me for the article below, the first question was: how do people decide when it’s time to make a switch? I answered: reasons vary, but many of my clients share one thing in [...]
Thought you might be interested in this Fast Company article that quoted me. The article was about how to plan for getting a promotion. Here’s a link to the article: Fast Company: Your five-month guide to getting a promotion And here’s a pdf in case the article link is no longer live: PDF of [...]
Passion is a loaded word when it comes to career. There’s a myth that if we just harness our passions, our careers will take off. I don’t buy it! Passions don’t automatically turn into careers, and Passion is just too slippery. What if we don’t know what our passion is? The truth is: [...]
Here’s one of the Simple Career Coaching Tips I share with my clients: Instead of talking to yourself in the first person (I’m stressed about this interview), switch to the second or third person. (You’re stressed, He’s / She’s stressed, even is [...]
I’m sitting at a very messy desk, trying to get this blog post written. I feel like I “should” clear off my desk because everyone knows you can think better when there’s no clutter around. I also know that if it were easy to clean off the desk, I would have done it already. So do I really [...]
Aretha Franklin had it right. Now there are statistics to back it up. Working in a place of disrespect has far-reaching consequences not only on employee satisfaction but on productivity, creativity, problem solving, customer relations, and even the bottom line. So what can you do when you find [...]