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Tuesday,June 30th, 2009

Career Life-cycle and Generational Professional Development

As the current economy rambles on, many individuals – and perhaps you – have revisited their current professional status. Even for those who may not feel their jobs are at risk, there is a more visible drive to grow, refresh or rebuild skills, knowledge, networks and more.

There are many models developed to represent career [...]

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Tuesday,June 9th, 2009

Young Professionals

How can I attract, engage and retain young professionals?  Undoubtedly, many of you have heard or asked a similar question in the past.  Naturally, many of you have also had two words immediately come to mind: technology and entertainment.

In short, the answers are:

Attract: Show an interest in them
Engage: Invite them to get involved [...]

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Thursday,June 4th, 2009

Pecha What?

How many times have you sat close to the door at a conference education or breakout session just so you could escape quickly if the speaker was deadly boring?   Similarly, how often have you murmured to yourself or a neighbor that a presenter could have used one-third the time to communicate their message [...]

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Tuesday,June 2nd, 2009

Just text me, Mom!

My son graduated from high school this past weekend and will be heading to college in the fall which got me thinking about the differences between when I went to college a long, long time ago and now.

I left for school without a lap top (didn’t exist yet) or cell phone (nope – [...]