I don’t care what stage in your career you are, how many years of experience you have, or what your title is, everyone needs to be held accountable at work. (We’re starting off a little bold today, I know.) Holding someone accountable for their work means that you care about the result that you’re all […]
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Years ago, I went for a walk with a co-worker because she needed to decompress. She was a friend and was unbelievably stressed. You see, she was about a year into her role and did not have a good relationship with her boss. They’re time together was purely transactional, and they didn’t trust one another
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Self-advocacy is taking initiative to communicate what you need and want. All too often people don’t take the time or initiative to simply ask for what they want and need. This is true for both men and women, but it seems to be more so women in the workplace who don’t advocate for themselves. We
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Everyone has their own skills right? We’re not all fantastic at all the same things. That is why making use of everyone’s abilities and natural talents is so very important. Me for example, details are not my top priority. I am much more interested in impacts to the long run. I want to know if
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I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say that they aren’t getting any sort of development plan from their boss. They have been putting in the hours and made sacrifices in their personal lives to be there for the business. Maybe they aren’t looking to climb the corporate ladder. They want to
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Getting a recognition for a job well done can be great for boosting confidence, sharing wins, and improving engagement. It can also add to your name standing out in those all-important rooms full of opportunities. But is it necessary? Do you need to get recognition for the great work that you’re doing in order to
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Can you think of a time that you were angry? Let’s be honest, for many of us that’s been within the past week. I mean really angry though. The kind of angry that you can’t see straight. When frustration and overwhelm start to cloud your vision. What starts as a bad situation, but one that
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I played a lot of sports in high school “Lettering” all four years and starting in many of them. That sounds good right; should I stop there? I’ll be honest, I was pretty awful. The reason I played all of the sports and on paper sound like Amy Athletic is because our school was so
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How much thought do you put into how you ask (or tell) people to do things? Do you give a lot of detail and dance around what needs to be done hoping someone will take the hint? Do you ask if people want to do a specific task or what out of a list they
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Have you ever heard of Wisconsin Nice? See also, Minnesota Nice and Midwest Nice. Have you heard of these concepts? I hadn’t until I started to meet vendors and business partners from around the country. They would walk into the building, introduce themselves, and before we would even get to the conference room for the
