Career Boosters: Mentors, Advocates and Sponsors
Building your career? You’ll need help. No matter how good you are at your job, you can’t sit around waiting to be noticed. As Sheryl Sandberg wrote in Lean In, the Tiara Strategy (head...
Author: Marne Platt
Open Space Office? Survival Tips for Introverts
When Jennifer’s company converted to open space last year, her ability to concentrate plunged. She likes her tablemates; it’s just that Jennifer needs quiet and solitude to do her best thinking. Without an office...
Tired and Hungry? 5 Delicious Dinner Recipes You Can Make Tonight!
What’s for dinner? Dinner time. After a long day at work, your brain is tired and your stomach is growling. You need something fast, tasty, and easy for dinner. These 5 go-to recipes get...
Be A Hero. Be an Organ Donor
Yasmin Mullings. Baby Ryley. Wolfgang Muller. Ivy Ashworth-Crees. What do they have in common? Their lives were saved by a hero: an organ donor. Someone they had never met, but who cared enough about...
Surviving the 4 Big Business Travel Disasters
The most important business trip of the year, and Sara Martin is in turmoil. Bad weather delayed her flights. Her bags didn’t make the new connection. Her phone battery just died. Now she has...
Your Health: Take Control of Your Doctor’s Appointments
What did the doctor say? Can you answer this question after your appointment? It happens to most of us in the doctor’s office: we seem to lose our memory. A study at Allegheny College...
New Job? Do these 5 things first!
New Job, New Start! The first week in a new job sets the tone for your entire time in the role. Whether in a new company or a new department, building a strong foundation...
Airplane Productivity Hacks: Get the Most Done in the Air
Power up your productivity! How good is your productivity on the road? If you travel for business you’ll spend lots if time in airplanes. Planes can be great places to work; the office can’t...
Creativity Hacks You Can Do While Flying
Creativity on the Road: Not Just a Dream! Business travel can sap your creativity, with long hours and the airport-office-hotel-airport circuit. Long plane rides become work opportunities; the office can’t reach you and you...
An Open Letter to CEOs: Treat Employees Like Adults
CEOs and C-Suite leaders get a lot of advice, often from highly-paid consultants and coaches. It’s tactful, carefully worded, and designed not to offend. This post is different. This is the advice your employees...