by Joanie Connell | Sep 20, 2014 | Blog, Flexible and Limber, Leadership, Managing Change
By Joanie Connell Change is inevitable, especially in today’s business world. Yet so many people resist it! On the one hand, it is natural because change often requires us to grow and we, as humans, are built to be comfortable in homeostasis. In other words, it’s...
by Joanie Connell | Sep 19, 2014 | News
Gender Inequalities Latest Victim: Flex-Time Requests Chalk another one up for “one step forward, two steps back.” Women who request time off care for children are penalized, while men requesting flex-time are viewed as both more likable and committed to their jobs....
by Joanie Connell | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Leadership, Parenting for the Workplace
By Joanie Connell A mom confided in me she had gotten so frustrated with her 7-year-old daughter that she started crying. She said that once her daughter saw her crying, her daughter immediately stopped misbehaving and came over and held her to comfort her. The mom...
by Joanie Connell | Sep 3, 2014 | Blog, Empowered, Parenting for the Workplace, REAL Life Skills, Resilient
By Joanie Connell College is a transition period between living at home and living independently. At college, emerging adults tend to still be dependent on their parents financially, but the idea is for them to start to figure out how to live on their own. They have...
by Joanie Connell | Aug 20, 2014 | Blog, Parenting for the Workplace
By Joanie Connell In the recent New York Times article titled Generation Nice, author Sam Tanenhaus talks about how nice the Millennial generation is. While I agree, I simultaneously wonder if we all might suffer from the Millennials being too nice. In other words,...
