Do You Know Who is Using Your Email at Work?

How Solicitation at Work Impacts You & Your Employees

“Just drop me an email, and I’ll get right back to you on that.” How many times a day do you say that? Email at work is like the phone on your desk.  It’s company property to be used as necessary for company business. It’s a workplace communication tool, ready and available for your use […]

How to Embrace Personal Disruption

Disruptive Learning

“The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.” – Bill Gates (Co-Founder of Microsoft) Personal Disruption in the Era of Socio Economic Change US Department of Labor reported that the unemployment rate ticked down to 8.1% from 8.3% in […]

Work First. Life Second

Balancing Work and Life for a Working Mom

Balancing Work and Life for a Working Mom I’ve made my fair share of life sacrifices putting work first before my life, and truth be told I’ve had enough.  Maybe you have too.  So how do we change it and begin balancing work and life? In 2009, working in a regular corporate job as a […]

PUSH: Productivity at Work: Part 2 – You

How to PUSH through obstacles at work

This is a series of blog posts about PUSHing through obstacles at work. Every workplace is full of obstacles. If you want to be effective (and you want your boss to THINK you’re effective), you’ve got to learn how to get PUSH through obstacles.  Here’s Part 1 of the series. Internal Conflict:  Man vs. Self […]

4 Ways to Empower Bored Employees and Build Engagement

How to create a work culture of engagement

Employees Submitting a Formal Two Weeks Notice What’s scarier than the thought of your star team members handing in their formal two weeks notice? How about not even being aware of it? It’s a possibility, particularly since a recent study pointed out that the majority of employees are bored and not engaged, while the analysis […]

Spanx Me: The Secret in 7E

Employment in All Shapes & Sizes

When I first heard “7E,” I thought it was referencing an apartment. Or Seven-Eleven.  What I did not think about was what it actually stood for:  the seven ‘e’s that can be found in putting the words  “Employee” & “Entrepreneurship” together. According to statistics, some 42 million workers in the US alone have stumbled upon the benefits of being […]