If you haven’t entered the work force yet or are brand new to the work force, the concept of managing your boss may be foreign to you. In today’s podcast episode, I talk about how to approach your boss with conversations about work expectations and responsibilities.

This week, my guest on the podcast is Becky Cutright, Communications Consultant with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Becky was my intern "back in the day" and she's been in the workforce for 10 years.

Writing skills are necessary to get the job, to move up professionally, and to develop the kinds of relationships with co-workers that lead to job success and satisfaction. In today’s podcast episode, I share useful tips to improve both writing and speaking skills for the business world.

Not providing growth and developmental opportunities to direct reports and teams can have a lot of consequences. Probably the most damaging is that they decide to find development elsewhere and leave for another opportunity externally. In today’s podcast episode, I present seven tools for you to take advantage of on-the-job professional development.

In episode 47, I talked about taking advantage of your company’s internal training opportunities. I also talked about 7 strategies for creating one-on-one professional development opportunities for yourself, regardless of whether or not your employer has formal programs like these. Today, let’s talk about continuing your education outside your current employer.

If you’re not being given new tasks or assignments, it’s time to speak with your boss. In today’s podcast episode, I discuss some of the ways to communicate with your boss about developing your position in the work environment.

Think about it: Work/Life balance is like Work on one side of a teeter-totter, and Life on the other side. Rather, think of the Work/Life blend, meaning a delicious mixture of both where the Work ingredients are indistinguishable from the Life ingredients. In today’s podcast episode, I talk about how Work and Life can overlap in many manageable ways.

The theme for November is “The most important qualities in an employer.” In today’s podcast episode, I researched three online sites that share insights on what features people look for in their employers.

This month’s theme is: The most important qualities in an employer. Today, we are talking about what makes an amazing employer, and why some companies receive highly rated reviews.

This month’s theme is starting, restarting, or changing careers. Today I want to talk about job dissatisfaction. How to figure out what the problem is…and how to solve it.

Today, I’m presenting case studies of people who made significant career changes, and the lessons to be learned from those changes. My hope is that you might identify with one or more of these case studies and find hope and direction in the paths they took.

This month’s theme is starting, restarting, and continuing your career. Today I want to talk about alternative work arrangements including self-employment, contract work, and side hustles.

This week's guest is employee benefits specialist Michelle Snow. She walks us through a primer on employee benefits so you can understand what your various options may be, how to decide what's most important for you, and what questions to ask the employer.

This week's guest is Denise Wilson, Vice President of Capital City Bank in Tallahassee, Florida. Capital City Bank has a formal program to identify and train high-potential employees. In my interview with Denise, I asked her to define a high-potential employee, talk about Capital City's high-potential program, and provide advice for anyone seeking to be identified as a high-potential employee within their organization.

Today, we’re talking about the signs of job burnout and what to do. The first thing I want to say about this topic is that there is the job burnout you can recover from without leaving your current job, and there is the job burnout that will require you to move on. Some of you KNOW you are burned out. For others of you, it may be like lightbulbs burning out one by one – you don’t realize the room is dimming until the last bulb goes out and you are in complete darkness.

Starting any new job can be an exciting, yet stressful experience. However, this doesn’t mean that you have an impossible task in front of you. There are a number of tactics and strategies that you can leverage to start your new job on the best foot.

There’s nothing US citizens should do in their job search that foreign nationals shouldn’t do. There is, however, another layer (or perhaps a few additional layers) that foreign nationals should consider when searching and applying for jobs.

There are three basic needs that every person has in order for their job to be fulfilling. Of course, you probably have additional ones, but I want to focus on these three basics in today’s episode.

I’ve gotten questions lately about what I do as career coach…and they ask if I am a life coach. It occurred to me that there are some similarities and distinct differences between career coaching and life coaching, and I thought I would educate you, dear listeners.

This week's episode is with Lauren Gerard, a client I worked with in 2018. Hear how she found her new job, and how she's enjoying her new position.