The other day I was trying to take a work call while heating my son’s bottle. Heating a bottle is easy. I poured water into a container, pushed a few buttons on the microwave, took the container out when it beeped and put the bottle into hot water. I’ve done it...
As a manager, one of your responsibilities is doing what you can to keep up employee morale. This is especially important during difficult times, as with a pandemic. With your team working remotely due to physical safety concerns, mental and emotional wellness needs...
It is never too early to start building your network. In fact, one of the biggest mistakes people make with networking is to wait until they need something before they start. I’ve seen the look of fear on the faces of people who have just found out they’re...
We live in a world where people are better educated than ever, so why do the majority of employers and recruiters think that people newly entering the workforce are poorly prepared? While hard skills – measurable technical and professional skills – are...
If I see another person answering a text while in mid-conversation, I’m seriously going to… Okay, let’s start over with a more constructive approach. Statistically speaking, more than half of you are reading this on some sort of mobile device, so I don’t have to tell...
There’s a Sumerian tablet that dates back to the 3rd century B.C. that documents a man’s complaints about the next generation – they’re lazy, imperious and they expect too much. This probably sounds familiar. Recent studies show that well over half of employers have...
