“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 […]
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Summer 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 […]
Read more4 Lessons for Re-entering the Workforce
Hot topics right now include men and women re-entering the workforce. What does that mean? Let me tell you first hand. I was faced with two kids entering college in the not too far future with expenses that had increased 110% more rapidly than what was initially anticipated! I have a college degree, worked my way to management in my […]
Read moreMonthly Market Snapshot & Top Financial Tip
A huge Mom Corps Dallas welcome to James Mathis and Michael Young of Aspen Equity Partners! Be sure to catch their guest post the first Wednesday of every month. They will provide the previous month’s market snapshot (thank goodness) and provide a relevant financial tip to help all of us realize our goals. “Then one day you find, ten years […]
Read more5 Must-Have Employee Retention & Recruiting Strategies
We recently had a client partner tell us they, “hire for personality and train for skill.” Another one, a CFO, said, “Finding talent is the biggest challenge we face, not talent with the skills to do the job, but talent we can trust with our business.” Ask yourself four things. Does my current team: Inspire my trust? Respect my business? Desire […]
Read moreLimit Grammar Funny Business to Saturday Nights
One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits is Weekend Update where Seth Meyers interviews (or tries to, anyway) the Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party. In these skits, Seth interviews an opinionated young woman who has trouble explaining herself. Her grammar is not bad – she has been known to correct Seth, for that matter […]
Read moreWhat Your Words Say: Five Communication Rules
I obsess over words and spend ridiculous amounts of time selecting the right words or phrase for what I am trying to say or write. As someone who often writes communications for others, I agonize over what the words I choose say to a reader or a listener and how they make a reader or listener feel about the speaker […]
Read moreTips for Correct Capitalization on your Resume and Cover Letter
A cover letter and resume should draw attention to your skills and qualifications, not detract from them with randomly capitalized words. Imagine if You received a Cover Letter written like This. Reading this is like riding a Roller Coaster. By the time you get to the End of the Letter, you would be thinking Twice about bringing that person in […]
Read moreBetty Draper vs. Sheryl Sandberg: We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
In the TV show Mad Men, Betty Draper epitomized the ideal of American womanhood in the go-go era of the 1960s. She was Grace Kelly gorgeous and Bryn Mawr-educated with a drop dead handsome husband who was minting money as a successful Madison Avenue ad agency partner. She presided over a stately Colonial manse with a spectacular wardrobe and a housekeeper […]
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