It’s been six years. Six years since the mammogram. Six years since the call. Six years since I heard those dreaded words–the ones no one wants to hear. The words no one expects. You. Have. Cancer. “We caught it early. It’s very small, your prognosis is good, you are lucky. This will probably be more of an inconvenience than anything […]
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Communication Tools are Critical for Business Success
One relationship ended up defining the next phase of my life! I am here to tell you creating,maintaining and sustaining professional relationships through all forms of communication available today is critical for business success. Many of us do not adequately take advantage of the myriad of avenues open to us to develop meaningful and sustainable relationships. It is less about […]
Read moreProtect Yourself Financially in Uncertain Times
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we are in Kansas anymore.” ~ Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz The government shut down due to Congress being unable to come up with a budget deal, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending selected federal programs. On a recent trip to New Orleans, our shuttle driver said, “You are now leaving […]
Read moreBlog Warming Party!
Mom Corps Dallas is excited to announce our move to a new blog home … SpotOnTalent.com. Help us settle in and tell us what you’d like to see and read. Our new blog will allow Cindy Strand Yared, the president of Mom Corps Dallas, and her awesome team, to spread their wings and speak from the heart about today’s challenging job market and how […]
Read moreTake No Prisoners Approach to Communicating Effectively
One day soon, my kids are going to stop letting me out of the house. They are going to refuse to be seen in public with me. I embarrass them, you see, because I am turning in to my grandmother, one grammar correction at a time. Grammie was an amazing and loving woman, who took language very seriously. Grammar, enunciation, […]
Read moreHaving Your Cake & Eating it at Home
We are grateful to Awele Ighedosa, one of our fabulous candidates, for her guest post today! Having worked in HR as a Benefits Specialist for several years, a regular 9-5 job was all I knew and expected of myself in order to remain employed and keep my skills relevant. After becoming a mom however, I struggled with the demands of […]
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An Ode to Many this 9/11 – We Haven’t Forgotten
In honor of the 12th anniversary of September 11th, Mom Corps Dallas remembers those who died during the terrorist attacks. We are thinking of their loved ones and friends as well as those injured and the heroes who came to the rescue of many on this day. September 11, 2001, affected us all and continues to do so. I had just dropped […]
Read moreThree Ways to Save for College – Do it Now!
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin While it’s probably not what Franklin meant by the above quote, The College Payoff–a study published by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce concluded that college graduates as a group have lifetime earnings the are 85% higher than those whose formal education stopped with a high school […]
Read moreSummer Reading for a Grammar Geek
As a lover of the English language, I have assembled a small library over the years of books about writing (yes, pretty geeky of me, I know). One of my favorite books is Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language, by Richard Lederer. Lederer is a former English teacher and writer about writing who collects language gaffes […]
Read moreIs Your Team Keeping Pace with Technology?
In a recent team development workshop, a client asked about the habit of responsiveness and whether we had seen a trend of the responsiveness habit increasing due to the demands of today’s society and business pace. It was a great question and we have some data on responsiveness for teams and individuals, but I had never thought to link the two until […]
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