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Choose Your Career Steps Confidently

"Sometimes you have to write to figure it out." ~Dan Pink, author of To Sell is Human, quoting his former professor in a 2014 graduation address at Northwestern...

Unleash Your Career Potential

I kept hitting a wall. Every time I thought about creating a 3 to 5 year career plan, my mind would simply go blank. I had no idea where to start on such a pro...

Your Career Needs a Challenge

Do you want to feel a sense of empowerment about your work contributions and communicate your professional value more effectively? Then, put your career thin...

Navigate Your Career Using Four-Letter Words

While using most four-letter words is not the best move on your career path, there are two terms that will require your professional attention. Two of the scar...

Does Your Career Need a “Do Nothing” Manager?

Are you as uneasy about the advice that people in leadership receive to “delegate, delegate, delegate" as I am? Probably not. But, there's a shadow side of delegation that I'm sure you've felt even though you ...

It’s Time to Defy Gender Inequality in Your Career

“Bad work culture is everyone’s problem, for men just as much as for women.... According to a continuing study by the Families and Work Institute, only one-third (33%) of employed millennial men think that coup...

Is Your Career Aligned with How You’re Wired?

Most of us have felt pressured at some point to provide a convincing and enthusiastic answer to the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” And, some of us have an easier time answering that ques...

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Networking and Mentoring

Your desire for meaning in your career may lead you on a path that includes confusion, sacrifice, loss, and surrender. And, it will suck whe...

You May Have to Battle for Meaning in Your Career

John Green, author of “The Fault in Our Stars” (BTW, a great movie, haven't read the book), gave a quick and insightful video overview about...

The Gifts of Employment Discrimination

Today, as I was working with an insurance agent to add coverage to my policy, the woman with whom I was speaking shared that she had heard t...

The Unexpected Career Opening

This week, I participated in my first ever Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day (TODSWD) event. The group that I'm working with created a...

The Essential Aspects of Career Success

Last Friday, I attended an "open house" for a new business and professional development center that two friends launched in Raleigh this mon...

Take a Lesson from the “Networking Challenged”