This category is for a multitude of people. If you have a career, or you are a stay at home parent, or you are a working parent, then you are in the right place. Balancing the needs of a family and/or balancing your professional development with your career is a challenge. In the Working Mom/Family category you will find posts around how to be there for family, how to fit in the needs like dinner and breakfast while keeping everyone on-time. In addition you will find posts on how to prioritize your professional career and career advice on how to be successful and how to achieve your goals.
One of the biggest mistakes we can make in our career is to NOT showcase our work. I don’t know about you but coming from a family that lived in poverty we were told to be grateful for what we got, and if we wanted more to work harder. In addition, as a female I …
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The most professional way to ask for a raise is with a growth mindset. Use the request as an opportunity to grow, specifically leveraging what you have given the company and what more you have to offer the company. To apply the growth mindset to salary discussions, it should be at minimum a bi-annual or …
Career mentors and sponsors should be thought of as a need from very early on in your career, especially for 1st generation college graduates with little guidance from family and friends on the specifics of navigating a professional terrain. This post will cover what a mentor and sponsor are, and how they are different including …
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How to Navigate the Professional Terrain (ladder) Navigating the professional terrain at work can be a maze for those just entering the workforce, or those who change career fields, or even for those who just change positions within their field of expertise. Most of us enter the workforce not knowing that we are responsible for …
There is an abundance of career advice that talks about how taking career risks pay big, and how playing it safe can hurt your long-term career growth. However, how do we know when and what career risks to take? How do we recover if the risk doesn’t turn out as we had hoped? How do …
Have you been on a video call recently and thought, wow, this camera highlights my blemishes or wow this camera makes my skin tone look sickly pale? You are not the only one. Now, of course lighting has a lot to do with how we look on video. However, I found it is a lot …
Keeping Your Child Focused on School Work At Home Help Your Child Stay on Task at Virtual School I assume like me you have talked to your child at least a hundred times about their safety and expectations of using the internet and computers. Or maybe your child is still too young to have chats …
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Working from home can be a saving grace or a real challenge, it really depends on your particular situation at home and at work. This post will describe tools that you can use to help you have a focused and productive work day at home. Despite the temptations to procrastinate with web browsing and distractions …
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Have you searched for what to do when stuck in an afternoon slump? Did you notice too? Every time I search how to beat the afternoon slump the top finds focus on some giant life altering habits or snacks. Reality check, in the couple of hours after lunch who’s hungry? Seriously, we all ate lunch …
How to Keep Kids Busy and Have a Productive Work From Home Day With Kids When working from home with kids it often feels like a juggling act performed on a tightrope, and one wrong move might lead to hours of work falling behind. So how do we juggle it all while keeping our sanity …
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