How to use personal assessment for good, not evil
It seems silly, right? Someone using a personal development assessment for “evil,” but as someone who has facilitated over one hundred MBTI and TKI assessments, I have seen many ways that the tools can be used for negative personal or professional reasons.
Need PD as a Manager? Brené Brown is your girl.
I am a long-time Brené Brown advocate and supporter. As a female manager, I have given her books as gifts more times than I can count. I have given this Daring Greatly to stone-cold, seemingly emotionless folks and I have given The Gifts of Imperfection to folks who love to read self-help and are inundated with messages of development.
You should stop listening to that podcast.
I used to fill every spare moment I had with development. I am not joking. I would walk to the bathroom and plug my earphones in to catch 5 minutes of a podcast that might serve me long term. Have I learned a ton of things over the last five years? Yes.
Have all of them been helpful to my emotional well being and self-esteem? Certainly not.
The Art of the Virtual Coffee
One of my favourite ways to get to know someone is to have an informal coffee chat. I love to take someone out for a coffee (at their favourite place!) and pick their brain about something they love talking about. Seems easy? Sure, but there is an art to making it a long-lasting connection.
5 conflict management tips for working next to a loved one
We are in unchartered territory, folks! Individuals who thought they would never work at home are now trying to figure out how to fit their profession into their living room. Me included — working in a student facing function at a University, I never thought I’d be working off of my side-hustle MacBook. Not only this, I never thought I’d have my husband working next to me with less space than a cubicle.
When working with anyone that closely (even your favourite person on earth), there is bound to be some conflict and misaligned expectations. And misaligned expectations are usually the core of conflict… so it is kind of just a cycle…