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Career Success
Use this COPE strategy to keep your meetings on track
We all find ourselves involved in lots of virtual meetings and events these days. This TED article suggests using the COPE strategy to minimize the same people doing all the talking and to keep your meeting on track. ...
Love Letter to Black Professionals
I found this love letter from Stephanie Pierce both poignant and inspirational. https://tcbmag.com/a-love-letter-to-black-professionals/
Your 2020 Performance Review: Aim for an Outstanding Performance Rating
We often say “Outstanding performance is your ticket to the game.” By that we mean for good things to happen to your career, you must have a reputation—and performance appraisals to back it up—of consistent, outstanding performance year after year. Your performance...
Morning Musings
Are you and your partner fighting enough?
This Ted article suggests you may need to fight more! Read on to find out why. ...
Love Letter to Black Professionals
I found this love letter from Stephanie Pierce both poignant and inspirational. https://tcbmag.com/a-love-letter-to-black-professionals/
COVID-19 and your brain: 6 ways to control the damage to your mental health
The impact of COVID-19 on our physical health is so extreme, we may neglect to pay sufficient attention to its significant impact on our mental health as well. As this article from the World Economic Forum explains, COVID-19 also causes considerable damage to our...
What we are reading
Women in the Workplace 2020
COVID-19 has caused a major inflection point for women in the workforce by placing new demands on working mothers. In fact, the demands of COVID-19 threaten to significantly widen an already unacceptable gap between male and female achievement in the workplace, from...
Racial Trauma: Theory, Research, and Healing: Introduction to the Special Issue
Published in the American Psychologist, 2019, Vol. 74, No. 1, 1–5 Authored by: Lillian Comas-Díaz Transcultural Mental Health Institute, Washington, District of Columbia Gordon Nagayama Hall University of Oregon Helen A. Neville University of Illinois at...
How to Avoid a ‘Rich Man’s Recovery’
In this New York Times Opinion piece, Mr. Timothy Wu, a law professor at Columbia University warns of an economic legacy of the pandemic which is, “an extraordinary new concentration of wealth.” This means our country is once again instituting policies which make the...