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BIPOC Need Space in the Workplace: 5 Ways to Help Create It

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Our work lives can be a challenge under any circumstances. For black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC), it also involves some unique obstacles. These complications can often seem invisible to those who are not BIPOC. This can cause discomfort but it's also an opportunity to improve the quality of the workplace. Diversity is more … [Read more...]

July 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

Your Community Cares: How POC Can Secure Solid Emotional Support

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Everyone needs emotional support. For some people, this truism presents quite a quandary when community spaces feel unsafe. People of color (POC) experience our mainstream society in a unique way. They exist within a system that is often unfair. In some cases, it's even rigged against them. There has been a lot of talk about white privilege and … [Read more...]

April 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

Racial Issues: 5 Everyday Ways to Be More Racially Aware

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The fallout from 2020 is far from over. However, besides issues pertaining to the pandemic or natural disasters, there’s one area over which you can exert control. Last year saw more attention aimed at the topic of race than we've seen in some time. Some call it a reckoning, but for many, it created some internal confusion. You want to … [Read more...]

January 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

7 Ways to Practice Skills That Lead to Better Communication

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There is no secret formula for happy relationships or friendships. Such happiness is often a moving target. Yet, we do know that paying attention to ourselves and each other is key. We must remain diligent and open to each other. Sharing and responding to each other is vital for healthy interaction. Thus, there are definitely some key … [Read more...]

December 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

Tips for Working from Home and Feeling Better in the Time of COVID-19!

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It may feel like life during Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an insurmountable challenge, with demands to work from home, worries about people you love, and a feeling of hopelessness. While I can’t make this all go away (I’d have to be more than an ordinary psychotherapist!), I do have some tips for coping on a daily basis and how to feel … [Read more...]

March 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

Competition? Or Ambition!

What’s the difference between competition and ambition?  Let’s look at competition... A competition is between you and others. Someone’s going to win, and it better be you! So you compare yourself to others, looking over your shoulder to see who’s gaining on you, looking ahead to see who’s outpacing you. You find yourself hoping that he … [Read more...]

January 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

Reframing: How to Think Your Way Through Difficulties

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If you're struggling with a situation, you may benefit from reframing, that is, changing your attitude toward it. This is especially helpful when you have a resentment. Ever notice how you feed your resentments? Chew them over, and go through the details of exactly how you were wronged by the other person? Reframing is the opposite. It’s … [Read more...]

December 27, 2015 Leave a Comment

Passion or Pragmatism: Which Is Most Important in Your Career?

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In April 2014 the New York Times published two articles by Nicholas Kristof (here’s one, here’s the other) about the life and untimely death of a remarkable young woman, Marina Keegan, who graduated from Yale and wrote about searching for meaning in life, and the conflict people often experience between passion and pragmatism in plotting their … [Read more...]

July 30, 2014 Leave a Comment

The Fear of Being Direct

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  Writer Aaron Sorkin and HBO have given us “The Newsroom,” a terrific new show with plenty of material to write about, in this case, the fear of being direct. In the first season of “The Newsroom,” anchor Will McAvoy and executive producer MacKenzie McHale work their way from a very contentious professional relationship, due to … [Read more...]

September 30, 2012 Leave a Comment

Natural Networking

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  “I don’t know how to network” “Networking feels so fake” “I’m too shy to network.” Sound familiar? You know your business would improve if you networked, but you’re just too uncomfortable to try. (Read the “Comfort Zone” post to get a perspective on discomfort.) The truth is, anyone can benefit from networking. Natural … [Read more...]

October 17, 2011 1 Comment

Related Blog Posts

  • BIPOC Need Space in the Workplace: 5 Ways to Help Create It

  • Your Community Cares: How POC Can Secure Solid Emotional Support

  • Racial Issues: 5 Everyday Ways to Be More Racially Aware

  • 7 Ways to Practice Skills That Lead to Better Communication

  • Tips for Working from Home and Feeling Better in the Time of COVID-19!

  • Competition? Or Ambition!

  • Reframing: How to Think Your Way Through Difficulties

  • Passion or Pragmatism: Which Is Most Important in Your Career?

  • The Fear of Being Direct

  • Natural Networking

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