This is something I hear all too often from my clients. By the time most of us are uncomfortable enough to take action, things on the work front are pretty grim. They’re stressed all the time, Mondays feel like poison, and they have to sit in the parking lot and talk themselves into those last…
On Monday evening, as I took my dog on her evening walk around the block, I overheard some neighbors who were having a barbecue saying to each other, “How did you survive the Facebook outage today? Because I almost died!” Of course, this was partially for comic effect, but the truth is that a lot…
Psychological safety is the knowledge that you speak up, ask questions, or voice opinions to others at work, including your superiors, without fear of punishment or humiliation. Do you have it at your workplace? Many organizations are struggling with this issue since the pandemic. In normal circumstances, managers are asked to be candid and…
Many of us have been taught that we have to be “professional” at work, meaning we can’t let our personal lives impact what we do in the office. But that’s both impossible and not actually beneficial to anyone! A lot of people feel pressure to conform to whatever standards they see in the office,…
The July holiday, for obvious reasons, always makes me think about independence and what it means to each of us, particularly as it relates to work. (Yes, I’m pretty much always thinking about the world of work.) The sensation of appropriate freedom at work can be enormously important to us, but it’s also very individual.…
A lot of the people I work with struggle with feeling like frauds, even in the face of measurable success. The good (?) news from my perspective is that the people most likely to feel this way are the highest achievers, a phenomenon that was observed in women as early as 1978! A friend…
It’s been quite a few days, hasn’t it? It’s important to remember to take care of yourself, especially when things are hard.
Working for a bad boss is SO frustrating and so hard! I’ve been there too. I don’t have any easy answers for you, but I do have some tips.
Well, it’s now been roughly 11 months since we all started our quarantine. How’s yours going? Are you maintaining a semblance of sanity? I’ve been limiting my outings to the necessities: grocery shopping, medical visits, wellness checks for the pooch. In the warmer months, I was able to do some backyard wine visits with friends,…
Trying to be perfect is a trap a lot of us fall into, but it’s definitely not healthy. Trying to be perfect is a trap a lot of us fall into, but it’s definitely not healthy. Of course you want your application materials to be free of typos and errors, and naturally you want…