by Joanie Connell | Jun 30, 2015 | News
3 Steps to Become the Empowered Entrepreneur You Want to Be by Joanie Connell Young entrepreneurs often have great ideas but don’t know how to get out there and do it themselves. Here are some “empowerment” tips they can use.
by Joanie Connell | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Parenting for the Workplace, REAL Life Skills
The voices are unanimous. Parenting to raise independent, resilient adults is hard work. It involves pain and discipline. It results in frustrated and hurt children—at least when they’re not getting what they want. But we all have to get through that to grow up and be...
by Joanie Connell | Jun 11, 2015 | Blog, Coaching and Mentoring, REAL Life Skills
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” –William Shakespeare, As You Like It You don’t need to be smart to be wise. In fact, some of the best wisdom I have received is from people who I wouldn’t call particularly intelligent....
by Joanie Connell | Jun 10, 2015 | News
by Joanie Connell Students feel pressure from companies to have job-relevant experience on their resumes and they feel the only way they can get it is to take unpaid internships. On the other hand, companies feel pressure from students to have educational experiences...
by Joanie Connell | Jun 9, 2015 | News
By Joanie Connell On May 21, we taught the first Rady School Center for Executive Education (CED) course completely in the VirBELA virtual world. The course was aptly titled “Managing High Performance Distributed Teams” and we had participants as far away as England...