Are you in a managerial role for the first time? If so, now is the time to start thinking about your annual plan for preparing your team for performance reviews. Starting with goal-setting and how to hold touch-base meeting with your employees, this article […]
By Tiffany Waddell Tate (’07, MA ‘11), CEO/Founder of Career Maven Consulting Tiffany Waddell Tate is a career coach & professional development consultant, passionate about helping others develop themselves while adding value to organizations and the world. For many early career professionals, believing the […]
Whether you have been a manager for many years or you aspire to move up to a supervisory role, there are specific behaviors and characteristics of bosses who gain the trust and respect of their teams of which you should be aware. In this […]
If receiving feedback is difficult, some may say that giving honest feedback can be even more challenging. For those of you in managerial, mentor, or even colleague roles, how can you best relay honest and useful feedback in a way that can be well-received? We […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Ph.D., Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University You know that slogan that you will find on Washington, DC license plates, “Taxation without Representation”? That could easily be the slogan for the new manager. Or, to […]
We can talk about accountability at work with relative ease; but failure and shame? Those topics aren’t your average water-cooler-conversation. And yet, mistakes at work are common; issues of trust play out in everyday interactions; and mantras for high expectations contribute to a desire for […]
Executive coach and author Joel Garfinkle shares the 5 Qualities of Emotionally Intelligent Leaders as well as tips for how you can start to incorporate these strategies into your style, in SmartBrief.
By Lauren Beam (’07), Associate Director, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University Originally written as a guest post on the WFU Mentoring Resource Center Blog on March 13, 2018. Are you prepared to welcome Generation Z interns into your workplace […]
In this video, Wake Forest alumnus Matt Williams (’09, MA ’16) shares advice around recognizing and responding to bias in the workplace, particularly if you are a young professional navigating your first work experience post-college. Matt’s insights on microaggressions, implicit bias, and serving as […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Ph.D., Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University One of the hardest places to be, career-wise, is the dreaded middle: responsible for people, projects, and outcomes, and responsible to other people’s leadership, vision, and authority. It […]
