Career Development Discussions with Employees
A Smart Strategy Against the Great Resignation By Kimberly Kafafian Anyone that’s recently dined out and/or stood on line at a retail store and/or tried to get a customer service representative on the phone and/or needed to get their car serviced can attest to our rapidly thinning workforce. A quick Google search will tell you […]
Connecting with Your Co-workers When You Work Remotely
By Julia Lee There’s a lot that the pandemic has changed, and one of the most impactful and notable changes has to do with where we work. For many of us, gone are the days of commuting to an office space. We’re now working from home. There’s so much to love about working remotely […]
Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership
By Kimberly Kafafian I cry at work but I tried to hide it for the first 20+ years of my career. Happy, mad, and sad things will make me cry. I cried when I had to lay off a friend. I cried when the project I worked on for 6-months was terminated without my […]
Practicing Empathy in the Workplace
By Kimberly Kafafian On March 12, 2020, I had what would become my last in-person client meeting for the next 457 days. My children were home, right outside my office door, for 542 days. Who could have predicted that 18 months ago, life as we knew it would change so radically. They call this […]
Blocking Time on Your Calendar for the “Unschedulables”
By Julia Lee “Unschedulables” is not a word you will find in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but in my opinion it should be. It literally means events that are not able to be scheduled, and I think this single word encapsulates the nuance of the constant unexpected happenings that come our way. I first heard […]