We Should Start Recess in the Workplace
Why is recess not incorporated into the workplace? Recess: A regularly scheduled period during the school day for students to engage in physical activity and play with their peers. A concept that is deeply embedded in educational systems around the world and incorporated into the average school day, but not workday. My experience with recess […]
Why Executive Presence Matters for Women
Women have been taking the workforce by storm, becoming leaders, and making impactful changes within the labor force. Female entrepreneurship has also been steadily increasing within the past two decades, as approximately forty percent of businesses in the United States are owned by women. As women continue to pursue entrepreneurship, it can often be challenging […]
4 Lessons for Effective Leadership
Being a leader is no easy task, and this role can often come with heightened scrutiny and daunting expectations. In recent years, leadership turnover is up while leadership tenure is down – this means individuals in leadership roles are in their jobs for less time and organizations go through more leaders. Leadership turnover and tenure […]
It’s Never Too Early for LinkedIn: How to Start a LinkedIn as a Student
Creating a Linkedin is an easy way to connect with employers, learn more about companies, and keep in touch with your network. Linkedin grants you access to a greater pool of employers and a way to deep-dive on your resume. I’m a second-year college student, and I had trouble knowing what to put on my […]
The Online Coaching Industry Boom
The pandemic caused a shift of our lives online to comply with social distancing guidelines. This shift affected every industry for better or for worse, including the coaching industry. In his article titled The Flourishing, Surprising, Badly Needed Market For Online Coaching, Josh Bersin explains how the online coaching industry exploded due to multiple side […]
How Can Coaching Help You?
An article released by the Harvard Business Review posed an important question in the title: What can coaches do for you? As authors Diane Coutu and Carol Kauffman point out in their research, the coaching industry’s rapid evolution over the past ten years created so many misconceptions and blurred lines, that even most interested clients […]
What a Business Coach Is (and Isn’t)
Everyone needs advice now and then. Business owners are no exception- according to the Bureau of Labor in 2020, two out of ten new businesses fail in the first year of operations. This rate only increases year after year. Only about two thirds of businesses survive the second year and by the tenth? Seventy percent […]
How to Start Building Your Network
“It’s not what you know, but who you know.” Sounds like a LinkedIn cliche, but it’s one that’s been proven true over and over again. Education and experience are both important, but networking is equally so and often overlooked. Whether you’re looking for your first job, returning to the workforce, seeking a change, or are […]
5 Steps to Ease Your Transition out of Wall Street
Camilla Gazal and Flavia Naslausky are two women who understand how to make the transition from Wall Street to starting a small business. Camilla and Flavia first met on Wall Street where they launched their careers in the finance industry. When the markets crashed in the 2008 financial crisis, Camilla and Flavia decided that they […]