by Joanie Connell | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog, Leadership, Parenting for the Workplace, Resilient, Values
There was a bomb threat at a small private school recently. The head of school received the threat on Tuesday afternoon for Wednesday. She immediately alerted law enforcement and gathered the appropriate group of leaders at the school and then contacted...
by Joanie Connell | Oct 15, 2015 | News
Venting helps people release stress, which is necessary in a chaotic office culture, Connell said. “If you keep (anger) pent up inside you, it will come out destructively,” she said. “You have to have a way to let it out.” To vent or not to...
by Joanie Connell | Oct 6, 2015 | News
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by Joanie Connell | May 25, 2015 | Blog, Parenting for the Workplace, REAL Life Skills, Resilient, Values
When did it stop being OK to be OK? Now it’s great, wonderful, amazing, stellar, and even epic. Epic. Really? What does epic even mean, anyway? Heroic and monumental are some of the definitions from standard dictionaries. The Odyssey is a classic example. The Urban...
by Joanie Connell | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog, Coaching and Mentoring, Employee Engagement and Retention, REAL Life Skills
Millennials are experiencing work stress and burnout at disturbingly high rates. Previously, career burnout was a midlife issue. Now it is happening early on, at the beginning of people’s careers. Young workers are showing signs of burnout by asking for time off or...
