by Joanie Connell | Dec 1, 2022 | Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement and Retention, Empowered, REAL Life Skills, Resilient
Give yourself a gift this holiday season. Read this blog. I promise you will learn how to feel less stress and more happiness. “’Tis the season to be jolly,” they say. But let’s be honest. It’s not always easy to stay positive, especially when there’s conflict...
by Joanie Connell | Jan 19, 2022 | Careers, Managing Change, REAL Life Skills, Resilient, Women Leaders
Lessons from the workplace come in many forms. Most often we learn from experience, but when we’re lucky and we’re really paying attention, we can learn from the wisdom and role modeling of others. One of the most important lessons from the workplace is that people...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 13, 2021 | Blog, Empowered, Managing Change, REAL Life Skills, Resilient, Values, Women Leaders
I’d like to take a moment to expand your thinking on what a gift is. It started with a conversation with someone who told me she had cancer. It was a heart wrenching story, yet this was one of the most positive conversations I have had in a long time. She was laughing...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, Empowered, Millennials, Parenting for the Workplace, REAL Life Skills
I came across an article in the LA Times today about how college students at UC Berkeley have started up an “adulting” course. They created a student-run course to teach life skills to each other because they’re not learning them anywhere else. The...
by Joanie Connell | Oct 12, 2018 | Blog, Diversity and Inclusion, Parenting for the Workplace, REAL Life Skills, Values
If you’ve studied social psychology, economics, sociology, or law, you’ve probably heard of “The Tragedy of the Commons.” The story goes like this: A long time ago, towns used to have a “common”—a shared field or piece of land—where people let their cattle...
by Joanie Connell | Mar 7, 2018 | Generations, Life Change, Managing Change, REAL Life Skills
Listen to Joanie Connell’s twisty turny career path from engineering to psychology and more. Virginia Muzquiz interviews Joanie on the Passion+Purpose=IMPACT podcast. Listen to the podcast here.