In 2015, on July 31st, I brought in a few magical themed treats to work. Some magic wands, cockroach clusters, and chocolate frogs. I set […]
Team As Family
When I picked out my two words from Brenè Brown’s list of values, I chose Courage and Connection. Connection. In which I really mean love, […]
Looking for Excuses
I kept looking for excuses yesterday to stay home or go home. It’s a very middle school game for me to play, but my resolve […]
The Spiral
My coworker described it like this to me a while ago: it’s a spiral, revolving around a fixed point but we’re at a different vantage each time we come around. I can read the same sentence and it takes on new layers of meaning with another six months of life and experience.
Interview Advice from an HR Director
I’m the Director of HR at a small software company and we’re ramping up some hiring again. It’s on the brain, so I thought I’d share a couple of quick to-dos (and don’ts) I’ve observed for all current and future job seekers:
Loneliness at Work
Our monthly lunch & learns with our leadership program graduates is leaning more and more towards personal success practices rather than hardcore work topics. But topics like stress, and failure, and loneliness, and forming new habits, and managing your time are hardcore work topics. Whether we like it or not, we live integrated lives.
Practicing Practice
I lead a monthly lunch & learn series at work for past graduates of our in-house leadership development program. It’s a discussion based program where I curate content – often a First Round article or Ted Talk – and we eat sandwiches and share our thoughts. It’s relatively well attended, though I couldn’t get any interest in the month I chose the theme diversity (the general squeamishness indicative of a bigger problem).
Public Speaking (aka bribing your audience with free lunch and door prizes)
I’ll always remember the time I gave a presentation on blue whales. I was a sophomore in college, studying abroad in the Netherlands (in a legitimate castle of all places), and due to give a speech to my honors class about an animal. Or maybe it was something I had seen a museum? It might have had to do with evolutionary history? I’m not sure – but I chose the blue whale.