When losing a job, there is one path in clear view. Get a new job. This path is full of resume updates, cover letters, and applications. Then, the bumpy next steps can arise. Rejections. Ghosting. Resulting in self-doubt. Which leads to resume “tweaking”, more cover...
Gartner published an article on The Future of Leadership with AI that included the chart below. The perspective in the article was interesting as it linked to the evolution of middle management. That said, I was intrigued by the chart at the individual employee level....
We’ve been calling ourselves knowledge workers for decades. It sounds impressive. Professional. Essential. But many of us would say our days don’t feel like deep, intellectual work. They feel like endless meetings. Inboxes overflowing. Constant notifications. And...
A Harvard Business Review article gave an overview of 4 job change “quests”. They linked the quests to “why people quit their job”. However, I’m thinking they also apply to job changes. Here are the 4 Quests: Get Out – Employees want to get out of their current...
What to Do When You’re Tired of Selling Yourself? You’ve rewritten your resume ten times…and that’s just this week. You’ve posted on LinkedIn to engage and show your strengths…regularly. You’ve answered “Tell me about yourself” more times than you care to count. And...
This week, I’ve been thinking a lot about my daily writing habit. I spend the first 30 minutes of my day (every day) writing about professional development and/or marketing, brainstorming ideas, or digging into frameworks that have been forming in my mind. Some of the...
When we are considering another job, there may be a lot on our mind. We may want a promotion. A higher salary. A change. All these things could be great. And they will feel great when they happen. We are picked. We are in a better financial situation. Learning new...
When you lose a job, it doesn’t just affect our calendar or our paycheck. It affects our emotions. Our mindset. And our sense of self. Some days, it feels like a tidal wave. Other days, just a low hum in the background. We start to wonder if this is normal. The...
Do you feel like you are living your best life? 12 years ago, I didn’t. My kids were getting older. Time was opening up. Yet, I was so used to being busy, all I felt was a void. There is comfort in busy-ness. For many, including myself, it came from doing things for...
If we work for a company or ourselves, we have a job (or jobs) we do to make money. These are the activities that we are paid to do. Likely, none of our job or project descriptions include “attend meetings” or “respond to email”. Yet, large chunks of our day can be...
When we talk about work, we use words like jobs and chores. Typically, jobs are paid, and chores are unpaid activities for maintaining our homes. Within jobs and chores, we have duties, tasks and assignments. The tasks are ongoing work. Duties imply work are obligated...
We all want to be picked. To be on the team. Get the job. Go on the date. Win the award. The list goes on and on. The feeling we get when we are picked is hard to describe. Yet, at the core, it validates that we matter. We are “right”. We meet the need that someone is...
Early in my career (20+ years ago), I had a wonderful leader who shared a story that I still remember. He said he had a friend whose daughter was applying to her dad’s alma mater. She didn’t want to go there but was going along with his request. Her strategy was to...
Mirium-Webster defines ambition as an ardent desire for rank, fame, or power. Google suggests it’s a strong desire to do or achieve something. While ambition can be about titles and promotions. It can also mean living with purpose, peace, and alignment. Coming from an...
On December 12, 2011, Drinks to Design was born. The company where I brought together my loves of branding, jewelry, and wine. The brand that let me express my creativity in a new way. Inspired by upcycling and drawn to beer and wine packaging (labels, corks, etc.). I...
Even if you haven’t been laid off…yet Layoffs aren’t just something that happens to “other people”. Careers are unpredictable. You might be laid off from a job you love. You might decide to quit because it’s no longer right for you. Or life might demand you step away...
There is a lot of conversation about the growth of the freelance economy. Another work alternative on the rise (although much smaller) is job-sharing. This is when 2 employees divide the 40 hours of a single employee position. The division can take many forms dividing...
Back in early 2024, I wrote this post based on the Gartner Future of work trends. The post was never published, and I thought I would update it based on the 2026 trends. However, after looking at the new report, the focus of this year’s trends leans heavily into...
I recently read an article titled "Stop Hiring Trophy Collectors -- Start Hiring Gardeners”. This was right on the heels of reading the book What’s the Point? In both cases the focus is where we put our career energy. The article highlights that trophy collectors...
When I think about corporate leadership, teachers come to mind. The lessons that could be learned from the classroom would create a new kind of environment in the workplace. The image below (source) notes just some of the responsibilities of a teacher. Roles of the...
We all age. We all have a need to ensure we have the finances to support ourselves in our later years. Yet, over the last several decades, small changes have been happening that have slowly shifted the savings burden over to employees. The changes in industry,...