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Workplace Communications 2.0: Connecting Through Safe Rapport
An efficient and socially healthy workplace is something all managers would love to reside over. Wouldn’t you feel more at-ease knowing that everyone on your team had an understanding with one…
The Corporate Game Plan: Taking Real Steps To “Evolutionize” Your Firm in The 21st Century
“And finally, many firms do not have a game plan in place to set stress-eliminating practices into motion.” -From DRIVEN’s article “Preventing A Workplace Disease”, July 2016Six months ago, I launched an…
My 2017 Word of the Year: It Will Make You Think AND Act!
Definition: Done on purpose; deliberate. Synonyms Include: deliberate (as in practice), calculated, conscious, intended, planned, meant, studied, willful, knowing, purposeful, premeditated…
Out With The Old: 5 Reasons to Transcend The “Billable Hours” Business Model
To ease you into the topic of billable hours, or more importantly, to the reasons your firm should begin to embrace the alternatives, I recently laid out the drawbacks of sticking with this obsolete approach to…
The Secrets of Stress: Finding An Anabolic Balance In Corporate Culture
When I launched DRIVEN’s Energy Management blog series on July 28th, 2016, I mentioned that many corporate cultures are stress-generating, meaning, the stressors have been inadvertently…
Scheduling Smartly: Putting The Anti-Busy Mindset Into Practice
I’ve written several articles now in an effort to convince you that busyness is merely a state of mind, and a precarious one at that. It inhibits corporate productivity, it promotes one-upsmanship…
Eradicating The “Busy Bug”: How To Break The Habit of Saying The Word “Busy”
If you’ve read and digested my two recent articles on Why “Busy” Is A Four-Letter Cuss Word, you’ve likely learned a few valuable lessons about workplace communications. For one, you now realize how…
Breaking The Catabolic Cycle: Why “Busy” Is A Four-Letter Swear Word, Part 1
Let’s begin to unpack the three factors leading to great stress in the workplace. Last week we deigned the first building block bolstering corporate stress is that ambitious businesspeople have convinced…
Block It Out: How A Simple Time Log Can Restore Maximum Workday Productivity, Part 2
I hope you gained some inspiration while reading Part I of this blog series, where I came clean on the emotional detriments experienced by my former self, and then shared with you some…
Back To Business: 6 Ways To Politely Decline When You Get Hit-On While Networking
Women of the business world: There’s a type of awkward male/female interaction in the network setting that has likely taken many of you by surprise, but rarely gets discussed with or addressed by your…
Embracing The “M” Word: 7 Surprise Facts About The Nature of Menopause
With DRIVEN’s Energy Workshop Series in progress, I thought it time to revisit an energy-related webinar of ours from the autumn of ’15. The theme? Menopause. The following are the surprising facts we…
DRIVEN’s First Energy Management Workshop: The 3 Big Takeaways
The first in a series of four DRIVEN Personal Energy Management Workshops, held at the offices of our corporate supporter RSM on April 28th, had the intended effect of energizing its participants…
Lose That Baggage: Insights on Outsmarting Our Inner Critics, Part 1
DRIVEN founder Deborah Goldstein often hosts discussion sessions called Real Talk/Real Food for DRIVEN Professionals who are inclined to enhance their outlooks. These informal workshops are a…
Can You Be Brainwashed Into Becoming Confident?
Here’s an un-mathematical equation defining confidence: Acknowledgment of daily successes + Having a clear vision of your goals = Belief that you will succeed. Why is this profound?
The Power Of The Pivot: How One Professional-Turned-Mother Kept Her Career Momentum
Often, we women get caught so deep in the trenches of keeping up with our lives that we don’t realize we’re capable of changing our circumstances to better manage our lives. We fear that changing…