by The Learning Advantage | May 5, 2019 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
“What, you don’t trust me?” Becky asked her boss, Pat, when he told her he needed to get daily progress reports from her. “Sure . . . I trust you,” Pat replied after an awkward pause. “It’s . . . my boss. She’s a stickler for all this administrative stuff.”...
by The Learning Advantage | Mar 31, 2019 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
When it comes to career highs and lows, many of us obsess about the troughs and skim over the crests. But if we take the long view — seeing these ups and downs as recurring patterns that are neither good nor bad — we can better manage our response and accept the...
by The Learning Advantage | Mar 3, 2019 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
After earning an undergraduate degree in mathematics I pursued a career in systems engineering. I found the work enjoyable enough but realized that a sizable part of my brain wasn’t fully engaged in it. So I went to business school to find my next career. At the end...
by The Learning Advantage | Feb 3, 2019 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
The best companies want engaged employees. The Gallup Organization surveyed over 30,000 employees in 2018 and found that fully two-thirds said they were disengaged from their work. Imagine the loss of productivity, poor customer relations and opportunities that are...
by The Learning Advantage | Jan 1, 2019 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
Many of my clients tell me they “hate public speaking” and dread giving presentations to large groups. This is troubling because the ability to share one’s expertise, lessons learned, and vision can be crucial to career advancement and job satisfaction. It is the rare...
by The Learning Advantage | Dec 2, 2018 | Juicy Nuggets Blog
When it comes to expressing appreciation, managers have many informal options, such as offering praise, spending time developing employees, and treating the team to donuts and bagels or a pizza lunch. More formal expressions include thoughtful performance appraisals,...
