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    5 Ways to Encourage Your Team Toward Success

    Twenty-eight eyes looked at me skeptically. They were convinced the task I had outlined for their strategy session was beyond their reach. “Just too hard,” they explained. “I’m not that creative,” insisted another. My own confidence crumbled a bit. The exercise had worked in other contexts, but this industry was untried in my experience. What […]

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    New Opportunities and Challenges with the Gig Economy

    The job landscape is quickly changing. Jobs that were once readily available and steady sources of income to millions of people are changing or disappearing. It’s a topic that has come up a lot in this year’s political campaigns. But not all is despair. With any change brings new opportunities. And one of the largest […]

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    Stop Bullying: Stand Up and Show Up

    Bella, a fifth grader fighting a life-threatening blood disorder, was paired with the Denver University Division 1 women’s volleyball team as part of Team Impact.  She was given a locker and helped out at practices. Because of her illness, she has to wear hearing aids, and some of her elementary-aged peer started to tease her […]

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    In Defense of Multitasking: Sort Of

    Multitasking gets a bum rap. Conventional wisdom is now claiming that multi-tasking is a bad thing. That you really can’t concentrate on more than one thing at a time. I’m here to tell you that… They are right. Partially. I fully agree that multitasking has its downsides, but our bodies do multiple things at a […]

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    Stark Realities for New Leaders

    In the same way people without children can’t really know what it’s like to have kids until they do, you can’t really know what it’s like to be a leader until you actually lead. Even in organizations that invest in leadership development struggle with helping new leaders fully comprehend what it means to lead. Leadership […]

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    Ultimate Gratitude

    There can never be enough gratitude in the world. After I survived my cancer ordeal I had a lot of people to thank. And my greatest source of guilt by then was how little I had known about what people in the medical world do. Now I will never let myself forget again. I now […]

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    Be a Strong Collaborator

    By Kristen Carter, M.Ed., GCDF Contributor, Senior Career Exploration Specialist Whether in college or your current job, we have all been tasked to work on a group project or serve on a cross-functional committee. Initially, it’s essential to know the required task, but it’s common to be curious about the other group participants. Being able […]

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    Work Where the Human Spirit Goes to Die

    What’s your work environment like? Inspiring? Frustrating? Dull? Engaging? Is the only metric that matters “employee productivity?” Studies have shown workplaces are often dismal places to be for us humans. 24/7 Wall Street identified 2016’s worst companies to work for by analyzing employee ratings on Glassdoor.com. The worst three? Forever 21, Family Dollar, and Express […]

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