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Twerking and Other Interesting Insights gained through Community Based Learning

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What does twerking have to do with a service learning project that emphasizes learning about organizational behavior and human resource management at a Jesuit University? In case you missed this…

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What Media teaches us about Management

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I think there is tremendous value in using media to explicate concepts in management. Viewers today are very sophisticated and used to seeing a lot of production value so most…

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Mentoring Archetypes: Who’s Your Favorite?

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ABC’s Shark Tank has become one of my favorite shows on television. It is addicting to watch this show and root for the underdog and hope that various products get…

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Mentoring and the Karate Kid

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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…

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Inspirational Mentors: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook

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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…

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SHARE Your Talents: Why does community based learning matter anyway?

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It’s Fall. For those of us on a Los Angeles university campus, this means midterm exams, switching over from sandals to boots, conference paper deadlines, end-of-the year goals to accomplish,…

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Why Mentoring Relationships Can Fail or Succeed

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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…

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Guest Blog for Career CoPilot

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Many thanks to Dan Keller of www.careercopilot.com for graciously allowing me to guest post. This is a great site full of terrific career advice – I hope you enjoy my…

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If the Olympic Village Had a House Mom…

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The 2012 Olympics are playing out in London and the results thus far have been thrilling. As an audience we are given in-depth access the athletes and their extraordinary back…

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Webisodes: The Mentoring Programs Start-Ups of the Entertainment World

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In the corporate world organizational structure is a mapped out and mentoring programs are a thing. Employees are broken up into departments and assigned specialist functions. From the CEO to…

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