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Be the Driver of Your Annual Review: Four Things to Do Now.
Regardless of the process your boss or your organization uses to evaluate performance, you can and should be the driver of your annual performance evaluation. As a young professional, I was always a passive participant in my annual reviews. I would sit down and wait...
Attitude: The Unfair Expectation Women Face at Work.
I hated performance evaluations. I always greeted them with an overwhelming sense of dread - and I never really thought too much about why, until recently when I was writing a blog about preparing for an annual performance evaluation (coming next week). When I was...
The Most Important Book You’ll Ever Own.
It's of average size and comes in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. It has no publisher, no title, and no reviews on Amazon. The author is you. The book? A Success Journal. The concept is simple: Have a dedicated place where you regularly record your...
We Have a Pipeline Problem
The McKinsey Women in the Workplace 2019 study was recently released and while it shows that over the last five years women have made significant gains in representation in senior leadership, as well as companies' commitment overall to gender diversity - there is...
Your Feminism, My Feminism, All Feminism.
I've heard a lot of women, young and old, utter the words, "I'm not a feminist." That statement, particularly from women, always leaves me a little flabbergasted. I find myself wondering how a woman could claim she's not a feminist; How a woman could claim she doesn't...
What Going Vegan Taught Me About Work-Life Balance
I've been a vegetarian before. I don't eat that much cheese and after a couple rounds of Whole30, I can't look at eggs the same way ever again. Heart disease, A-Fib, high cholesterol run on both sides of my family. Couple all that with the overwhelming sense of...