by Joanie Connell | May 17, 2017 | Empowered, Leadership, Resilient, Women Leaders
Joanie Connell hosts a Women Lead Radio interview with Catherine Mattice, co-author of Back off! Your Kick-Ass Guide to Ending Bullying at Work. Joanie gets Catherine to give tips on how to fight bullies, both for employers and employees. Listen here. ...
by Joanie Connell | Dec 12, 2016 | Assessment, Blog, Empowered, Leadership, Parenting for the Workplace
Increasingly, parents are getting involved in the job hiring process. This presents a challenge for employers because you don’t know how much of the candidate you’re getting vs. their parents. Things parents do for their adult children today: Go to job fairs and open...
by Joanie Connell | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog
How meaningful is your work? How meaningful do you want it to be? In a recent Gallup poll, 70% of people said their work was not meaningful. On the one hand, that number is alarming. Seventy percent of workers spend half of their waking hours doing something that...
by Joanie Connell | Jan 13, 2015 | Blog, Careers, Leadership, REAL Life Skills
A college education is important, but learning from real life experiences is more. Fifty executives at a large pharmaceutical company went through an assessment center to help the company develop its talent pipeline. They were assessed on sixteen competencies, or...
by Joanie Connell | Oct 21, 2014 | Blog, REAL Life Skills, Remote Management
It’s really becoming clear how unhealthy it is to sit at your desk all day and type on your computer. “Sitting is the new smoking” I’ve heard on more than one occasion. Do I want sitting to cause me to have an endlessly miserable old age? Right in the center of middle...
