“Every professional needs strong business relationships to be successful. These relationships include interactions and connections you build with colleagues, peers, and other stakeholders.” Read what Harvard Professional Development’s Lian Parsons writes about how you can leverage relationships to enhance and enrich your professional development […]
If you’re struggling with how to be fully connected in your life and feel joy and acknowledge beauty and also fight for the things that we need to fight for right now, check out one of our favorite podcast episodes, Accessing Joy and Finding […]
In this podcast conversation from Ten Percent Happier, American journalist Dan Harris and Marissa King, Professor of Organizational Psychology, talk about: how your social networks impact your mental health; how, when it comes to social networks, quality and structure are more important than quantity; […]
Did you know that having friends at work makes you up to 7x more engaged at work? In this MindTools article, you’ll learn why it’s important to have good working relationships, how to build and maintain them, and even find ways to work with […]
Knowing how to build and maintain relationships is more important than ever. In this latest piece from Psychology Today, our Assistant Vice President for Mentoring and Alumni Personal & Career Development, Allison McWilliams (’95), shares five key tips for effectively and intentionally building your […]
If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything over the past few years it’s that change is always happening. We can’t always predict what’s going to happen tomorrow, next month, or even next year. The same is true for planning our career path. While we can […]
The world is constantly changing. From new technology to ways of connecting with people to innovative approaches to the work that we do, there is always something new to be learned! In this thorough piece from McKinsey & Company, authors Lisa Christensen, Jake Gittleson, and Matt […]
In this LinkedIn article by Brenda Bown (Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce), she reflects on four key steps to making intentional decisions and taking action to progress your career. Bown shares examples from her own personal and professional life about what “owning your career […]
Five For Your First Five. This is how our Alumni Personal & Career Development Center team refers to the five areas you need to master in your first five years after college. These are the key skills that you need to develop to build a career and […]
While you may not have an actual managerial role at work, you are the manager of your own career! In this piece from Forbes, expert Caroline Castrillon shares tips for navigating your career like it’s a business. She suggests that building your brand, knowing […]