By Lauren Beam (’07), Associate Director for Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University As a mom to two young children and a part-time working professional, I can certainly relate to parents who are struggling with whether to exit the workforce or […]
How can you capitalize on your failures and setbacks to shape your career and life in a positive way? John Chambers, Executive Chairman at Cisco, reflects on how to learn lessons from our moments of disappointment in this article from LinkedIn Pulse.
The Urgent vs. The Interesting: Managing Priorities in the Workplace, written by Allison McWilliams for the Huffington Post, June 13, 2017. One of the hardest, yet one of the most important, professional lessons to learn is how to manage priorities in the workplace. Particularly […]
Do you know what your personal mission is? What about the mission of your organization? How do those two things align? Does the work that you do support your values, interests and passions? In this Fast Company piece, Robert Safian shares the stories of […]
By Allison McWilliams (’95), Assistant VP, Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Wake Forest University There is so much attention placed on the path to and through college – get the best GPA that you can, build your resume through extra-curricular activities and internships, […]
We all struggle at times to find meaning at work, even those of us who might identify our work as a “calling.” Some days it’s hard to see the higher purpose. But there are some easy steps that you can take to re-energize yourself for […]
Stuck in a Rut? Create Meaning Out of Monotony, written by Lauren Beam for the Huffington Post, April 25, 2017 Most of us know what it feels like to be stuck in a career or job rut. The 8 to 5 grind feels exhausting […]
What motivates people at work? How do we ensure that those who work for and with us are engaged at work? We may be thinking about it all wrong (hint: it’s not about compensation). Check out this piece in the New York Times by […]
Generation Y: Seek Out Feedback that Matters, written by Allison McWilliams for the Huffington Post, January 31, 2017 Recently I was talking with a couple of young alums about their first year out of college, and I asked them what they had learned about […]