“I want to work on my communication.” I hear some version of that sentence from clients all the time, and it’s rarely specific enough to actually work with. So I ask for an example. One client sent hers back within the hour. Here’s roughly what she’d sent a colleague: “”Hi Dana, I’ve been reworking how…
I was over a decade into my career, MBA in hand, before I heard the term “career map.” I barely knew what an informational interview was, let alone when you were supposed to do one or why. Nobody assumes you still need the basics once you’re senior enough. So nobody offers them. Nike didn’t let…
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I was sitting in the company parking garage looking at a meeting invite that had just landed. Fifteen minutes out. Ambiguous title. The kind that doesn’t tell you anything on purpose. The most conspicuous thing about it wasn’t who was on it. It was who wasn’t. You know that specific flavor of dread. The one…
20 years into my career, I have long been on the quest for the best planner. I rocked the student planner starting in my elementary school days and never looked back. Granted, I had a few perfectionist years where my daily planners sat a little too untouched, because I was fearful of messing them up. Can…