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Resources for Smart, Savvy Change

 

You start your day with a well-planned agenda. You’ve scheduled meetings, time to work on a project, and to walk at lunch with a friend. You’ve set aside time to respond to emails and address issues that arise. You need to leave by 4:30 p.m. to get your son to his soccer game. Then you […]

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In a previous blog, I wrote about stress in the American workplace and provided a few ways to build resilience so that when our days are disrupted with things beyond our control, and they will be, we’ll have the confidence and courage to bounce back. Here are a few more smart and savvy ways to […]

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TRUST: The Signals We Send

February 26, 2019

What characterizes a cohesive team? I ask groups all over the nation. Collectively, they agree TRUST is extremely important. Yet, because of widespread hidden agendas and extensive political maneuvering in an ever-changing global economy, most people do not intrinsically trust themselves, their co-workers, or the organization they work for. According to the 2016 Edleman Trust […]

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I vividly remember when my Dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer 18 years ago. He was given a few short months to live.I was crushed. He was only 62-years old and had worked his whole life to retire. He would never enjoy retirement.  My boys were little. Their “Pap,” was their hero; in fact, he […]

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When my kids were little and not listening to me I would shout, “Get the wax out of your ears and LISTEN!” (They heard this a lot, unfortunately.) Every year, about 12 million Americans head to their doctors with something known as “excessive cerumen.” That’s a really gross-sounding way to say they’ve got some serious […]

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