Category Archives: Career Advice and Mentoring Success Strategies
Advice for Graduates and Professionals: “This Too Shall Pass”
What advice can you give to graduates that fits on a chalkboard that past commencement speaker luminaries like Steve Jobs, Sheryl Sandburg and an array of past U.S. Presidents have not already said?! Probably the answer is nothing really! However, … Continue reading
My Five Favorite Blogs and Subscriptions for Spring-Summer 2013
How do you keep up with the news? How do you stimulate your creativity, add an extra kick to your presentations and stay relevant for your career? It’s a challenge. I confess I love the retro feel of a newspaper … Continue reading
What is it REALLY Like to do a Tedx Talk?: 3 Lessons I Learned
For me, doing a Tedx talk was the professional equivalent of what I imagine having a brief crazy affair with a hot young thang is like! Consider the similarities. Doing a Tedx talk was exciting and it was fun to … Continue reading
Confessions of a Recovering LinkedIn Hussy: Key Considerations for Using LinkedIn Effectively
True Confessions: I used to be the girl who could not say no… to LinkedIn requests that is! So I said yes to former high school classmates, random academics from universities I had never heard of in countries I would … Continue reading
Boost Your Career by Becoming Your Own Chief Learning Officer
So I was making a teepee for my Native American diorama the other night….. Well, sort of. Time for true confessions- I was actually watching the babysitter help my son make the teepee! I was thinking how grateful I was … Continue reading
National Mentoring Month Tips: 5 Ways to Appreciate your Mentor (without going into debt!)
“I don’t know how I could ever repay you” is a common sentiment that actually can be a real fear for many mentees who genuinely want to show appreciation to their mentor but don’t know how, or fear they may … Continue reading
How Much is a Mentor Worth? Is Mark Cuban the Grinch or kind Saint Nick?
In this week’s episode of Shark Tank, the owner of one of my favorite local companies, LivingChristmas.com, went on Shark Tank. Now, I know I have no business watching TV this time of year since what I should be doing … Continue reading
Mentoring and the Karate Kid
Everybody learns in different ways. Some of us are more auditory, or visual or kinesthetic. I love to use media clips to demonstrate learning points. I find it is a great way to keep people awake (a prerequisite to learning … Continue reading
Inspirational Mentors: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
Ideally, our mentors serve as positive role models for us in addition to giving us career and emotional support. However, I want to introduce the idea of inspirational mentors to this forum as well. An inspirational mentor can be someone … Continue reading
Why Mentoring Relationships Can Fail or Succeed
It is almost midterm exam season again so I have being thinking a lot about success strategies and failure. In particular, why do mentoring relationships fail or succeed? I think one reason is because mentors pose tests to their protégés … Continue reading