For the last four days I’ve been decorating the house for Christmas while my daughter and husband are off on a mini-vacation together. Somewhere between listening to Alabama sing Christmas in Dixie and hanging the last stocking over our pretend Christmas fire place, it happened. I got the urge to have Eggnog. As I headed to the store this morning
In less than a month we are setting sail on our first Disney Cruise. When I first read about the “Fish Extender” gift exchange, I knew it was something I wanted to participate in. So three months ago, I found our “Cruise Facebook Group” and signed us up to be part of the “Tinkerbell Fish Extender Group”. Mission 1: Create
One of the toughest parts about being a manager is finding the right talent to grow your team. Every time I post an open position online, I have no less than 50 applicants within the first week. The problem is, most of the applicants lack the main skills related to successfully accomplish the job they have just applied for online.
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Growing up, my dream was to be an elementary school teacher, but after a foreign exchange trip to Germany in high school, I declared my major in college would be international relations. I dreamed of working for the United Nations or being an ambassador for the United States to a foreign country. I had planned to spend two years in
The accidental manager. Those three words describe how I landed my first management position. I was hired to do marketing for two medical clinics. Within just a few years, we had grown to 14 locations in multiple states. I had been really good at my job, and as the first one hired, I was named the manager of our growing
Imagine how different your world would be today if you hadn’t snubbed your nose at things you initially thought sounded “too good to be true”. Life is full of people who pushed the limits – tried the things others dared not to try – and came out on top. Consider your smartphone. A mere decade ago your friends would’ve called
It’s been a long time since I woke up at 3:00 in the morning to check on my little girl. She’s three and a half now, and for over a year she’s been sleeping through the night. It’s a blessing. There was a time in my life when the only thing I was praying for was an extra hour of
My three year old daughter loves fruit, but put a vegetable in front of her and she will go on a hunger strike. There are times I just want to bang my head against the wall as I try to get her to eat healthy. My daughter also loves to help me bake. So when I discovered a “Carrot Oatmeal”
Interviews are a blessing and a curse, no matter which side of the table you’re sitting on during the formal gathering. I read an interesting comment feed on LinkedIN the other day that chastised interviewers for not getting outside the box to really know candidates. People slammed the formalities around Selection Teams who use the same list of questions for
