Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2015

“Oh the minute they made the announcement, I knew she’d be down on the field,” my husband told my parents over wine and brie. My parents both just smiled. I’m always humbled when I go back and read some of my earliest blog posts. As wacky as it sounded, they weren’t shocked either.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I know the choices I’ve made (and continue to make) as a working mom leave some of my friends scratching their heads. ” “All this time working on that book can’t be good for her kids.” In my case, I have a very supportive husband who really does his share of the parenting. I apologize. Namaste.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 12, 2023

Heather and I both started blogs in 2002, we both got in trouble for writing about our coworkers, we both wrote about our bodies, our pregnancies, our money, and our divorces. I realized he was my best source of information for how Heather thinks about her blog — I always picked up when he called. It doesn’t work.

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Corporette

JANUARY 10, 2024

Two of the books are aimed at everyone, and the third is for parents (plus a bonus rec for a free course at the end which, coincidentally, begins enrollment today). Using that experience, the many interviews she has done with parents over her career, and a lot of research, she wrote How to Be a Happier Parent in 2018.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Yesterday I was invited to go to Nottingham Business School and talk about the future of career to the Future of Work conference (#fowconferencenbs2024). At the end of the conference (they have to attend at least 10 hours), they then write a blog post discussing the future of work and what it means for them and their careers.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 14, 2024

I felt way too tired to stick to my regular routine of promising to post on my blog and then not doing it, but I didn’t want doctors to think I’d given up on life. But all my clothes are either work-from-home-pajamas or pitch-a-company-black. So I said things like, How was work today? I tried to be supportive.

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The Coaching Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

For the past six years, he has been working for NMC in developing a coaching and core life skills training programme for children and adolescents. Through this work, and having owned and managed retail SMEs for nearly twenty years, Ian has developed a deep understanding for the needs of this sector both nationally and internationally.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 20, 2016

There are two ways to participate…either submit a blog post on the topic, or your 1-2 sentence answer to the question. This month, we invited leadership experts to either submit a blog post, or answer the following question. Another good way is to write a blog. What tools do you use to stay productive? Follow Michelle.

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 12, 2023

Everyone coming to me for advice was facing unique predicaments far more overwhelming than what had been placed on me; some were dealing with parenting roles while others might have had managerial positions at work or other financial duties. However, the majority encapsulates them based on a combination of age and work experience.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Whether you lead a multinational company, a human-service nonprofit, a team of three engineers trying to solve a stubborn problem, are a parent, or a community volunteer, in your role as a leader you give and receive truly significant gifts nearly every day of the year. So, how can we actively invoke gratitude? Follow Michelle. Follow LaRae.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Along with members of these other teams, work to define your joint goals and establish how to coordinate your efforts. Learn to understand different working styles and personalities. Learning how others think and work is an essential part of leadership. It also makes working with contract staff more viable over long distances.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Recently I wrote about how most women over 40 working full-time in an office have Aspergers. She wrote: You left out one or two categories of women still working: those who have ADHD/are easily bored (me), and those who have much older spouses on Medicare so must work for benefits for herself and the kiddos (also me).

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 20, 2014

I have written many posts about how important it is for gay people to come out of the closet at work. They earn more money , for one thing, because if you are your true self at work people like you more, and likable people earn more money. Did you ever notice how much art is on this blog? Parents are not stupid.

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Career Advancement

JULY 17, 2017

Keep employees happy and fulfilled in their work, and retention is likely to be high. It’s about feeling satisfied by their work and taking pride in their ability to improve their performance and increase their responsibility. Setting work performance goals together will ensure they stay motivated. Poor working relationships.

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GetSmarter

MAY 10, 2023

For more than 15 years, GetSmarter has been delivering online short courses that are data driven, market-led, and designed to meet the dynamic needs of the future of work. In 2021, our parent company 2U, Inc. appeared first on GetSmarter Blog. acquired edX , an online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT.

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The Coaching Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

The program prepares you to work with creative and performing artists (writers, visual artists, filmmakers, musicians, craftspeople, etc.), If you wish to use this knowledge and qualification to work with clients then it is important that you have done some form of Coach Training. Who Is This For?

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

This is obvious to me because in the months after the towers fell, my world was my recovery support groups — and in my groups, the conversations were all about who is going back to work. My groups were mostly people in banking, insurance, and tech because that’s who worked at the World Trade Center. He kept working.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Having a baby is always an adjustment for new parents, but one strategic communications company found it was going to go through some adjustments of its own when three key employees on its 16-member staff turned up pregnant at nearly the same time. She saw one woman wearing a heavy overcoat to work in July in Houston.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

All you have to do these days to know some of the most intimate details of someone's life is to check out Twitter or Facebook or read the person's blog. Look at those sitting within six to 10 feet of you at work. Some people like to share -- a lot. That's OK if that's what they want to do, but the rules are different in the workplace.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Goals that emphasize what’s working well will evaporate a dead end. What is my f **g problem that I show gratitude to my parents for my childhood and disdain to Nino for our marriage? I ask about work. I ask about his parents. Z will eat lunch at work. I work on my calendar. Or any gratitude.

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Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 22, 2014

Let’s call her Imogene because it’s one of the most popular names of 2014 and I want this blog to feel fresh even though I’m writing about a topic that I have not been able to shut up about for five years. You waste money on things that don’t work. People can’t respect you if you don’t respect you.

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Penelope Trunk

MAY 26, 2018

Why this tactics works: 1. A to-do list works best if it’s full of specific, manageable things you can do to move one, small step toward the very big goal. There’s no measure to tell if you’re a good parent. I meet goals with my kids but it’s not like then I’m a good parent.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

I get included in a lot of lists ( 19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now , Top 10 Aspergers Blogs , Top 100 Education Blogs , Top 50 Productivity Blogs ) but I generally don’t pay a lot of attention. I thought to myself: I bet I’m the only homeschooling parent on this list. But it looks much different.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

By the time Gen Xers were middle-aged , most couples had decided that a traditional, home-based role worked best for them. “ Convenience friend ” first appears in Urban Dictionary in 2006 in the context of dorm rooms, but at this point, it’s clear that all parent friends are convenience friends.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mentors usually work behind the scene, but on Thank Your Mentor Day, they deserve to be lauded and appreciated with the spotlight on them for once. Since it's such a powerful event, we have dedicated an entire article to how you can honor Black History Month at work. Thank Your Mentor Day: January 21, 2023, Saturday.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 2, 2016

The only resolutions that work are lifestyle changes, and if you are really ready to do a lifestyle change, you don’t wait for January 1. Resolutions work best if you pick just one. I am always trying to figure out how to get credit for being a stay-at-home parent and get credit for being a successful entrepreneur.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 31, 2016

So maybe that’s why the way Google organized the search results really works. I want you to see that even though I had to live at my grandparents house because my parents hated me so much. Even though I did that, I am still a great parent. But I keep writing both blogs because I need the support system.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 25, 2022

My safe space is the comments section here on my blog where the only social rule is: be interesting. In fact, analyzing ourselves as a hobby is a marker of autism — we are constantly trying to understand how to world works , and how we feel comfortable. I spend half my life trying to not offend people. Narcissism is autism.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

And they had runny noses and parents with really short fuses. By this time next week, one or both of the parents will have the snotty nose, cough and crankiness. Blog posts and tweets will begin to pop up, as people lament they'd have to be dead for two days to feel any worse. This tells me several things. No, no, no.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Most people in the US think they can work hard to get ahead, even though economic mobility is lower in the US than in other industrialized countries. Americans underestimate the importance of luck and believe that people who are ahead got there from hard work and intelligence. But that’s for a whole other blog post.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 17, 2014

And the guys who work in non-profits saving lives and being kind or whatever, it’s a safe assumption that they are feeling types and that they want respect more than complex problems. Of course it’s also important that you know your personality type because then you’ll know the type of work that will feel good.

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Vantage Circle

AUGUST 29, 2020

It provides employees with optimistic feelings and thrives in a working environment that promotes communication, growth and development, respect, and trust. She has contributed to the smooth re-badging process an organization spread across locations into the parent organization by value dissemination and structuring transactions.

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Vantage Circle

APRIL 25, 2023

There are numerous milestones to celebrate at work, from small victories like finishing a challenging job to bigger ones like getting a promotion or getting a new client! The barriers between personal and professional life are getting increasingly blurred, and commemorating a 5th or 10th work anniversary is no longer sufficient.

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Penelope Trunk

JUNE 19, 2011

And on Father's Day I feel particularly grateful for both men, because they work really hard to make sure the kids feel like they have an integrated, stable family. I think this is true for all work, not just politics. And he quoted my son's blog, about the farm. Blogging is about ideas , self-discovery , and growth.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 28, 2011

I’m trying to make sure this is a career blog, because, if nothing else, if I don’t have a career then it’s pretty hard to have the discussion of why I am not leaving. I thought it would be such a big deal when I stopped working there. I show up to board meetings and there are people working there who I’ve never even met.

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Mind Mapping Software

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Here’s a brief overview of how WriteMapper works, followed by a review of the most notable new and improved features in WriteMapper 3. How does WriteMapper work? When you do this, it places any remaining child nodes to where the original parent was attached to its parent topic.Delete a node while keeping its child nodes.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

That was me, affording to stay home with my kids and not work. When I launched my homeschooling blog I actually thought I was just exploring a trend. How else can I do some work? Work is very fun. I love work. Work is so rewarding. The homeschool trend is huge among educated parents. Believe me.

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