Maximizing Your Team & Yourself | Summary of Episode 142
Karen Smolarek , Director of TRIO Student Support Services at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, shared her experience with the...
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strengthsuniversity
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Should You Quit Your Job | Episode 140 Summary
This episode of My Circus, My Monkeys is aimed at higher education professionals, particularly those who are questioning their current...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jun 3
- 10 min
6 Easy Ways to Use CliftonStrengths with Your Team
Have you and your team taken the CliftonStrengths assessment, but don’t really use it as much as you’d like? You had such high hopes for...
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strengthsuniversity
- May 21
- 11 min
Deconstructing Your Stress
Most of you are done or almost done with the spring term, so you have a bit more bandwidth to reflect. But whether you’re excited about...
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strengthsuniversity
- May 9
- 8 min
The Truth About Employee Retention
Over the past six months, Alicia and I have done a session called The Truth About Employee Retention at several conferences and as...
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strengthsuniversity
- Apr 23
- 7 min
What is Eclipsing Your Brilliance?
Last week, we experienced a solar eclipse. In celebration of this celestial event, I thought I’d do something different in today’s...
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strengthsuniversity
- Mar 26
- 11 min
How to Find the Time to Get Everything Done
When I ask folks what their biggest challenge is as a supervisor, the number one answer is almost always time. Or rather I should say not...
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strengthsuniversity
- Mar 26
- 19 min
Creating a Trauma Informed Workplace
In previous articles, I’ve talked about how Higher Ed doesn’t exactly have a culture that emphasizes employee wellness or wellbeing. We...
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strengthsuniversity
- Feb 27
- 10 min
What to Do When Your Coworkers are Draining Your Energy
As I mentioned in our last article, I created a survey so y’all could tell me what YOU wanted to know about in 2024. Last time we tackled...
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strengthsuniversity
- Feb 27
- 12 min
Answering Your Questions about Having Difficult ConversationsÂ
I recently sent out a survey to folks on our mailing list asking what issues they were facing and what they wanted me to talk about in...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jan 16
- 7 min
How to Stop Overthinking Decisions
I originally started working on a completely different topic for today’s article. I was having trouble deciding what I wanted to say, how...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jan 3
- 7 min
You’re Exactly Where You’re Supposed to Be
This is our first article of 2024. This time of the year, it’s natural to reflect about what happened over the course of 2023. Hopefully,...
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strengthsuniversity
- Dec 13, 2023
- 8 min
How Are Your Strengths Showing Up for You Right Now?
In my last post, I gave you five tips to survive the end of the semester and the holidays. Why did I give you said tips? Because you can...
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strengthsuniversity
- Nov 29, 2023
- 11 min
5 Tips to Survive the End of the Semester & the Holidays
If you’re like me, you survived Thanksgiving but on Sunday you thought, “Oh bleep! Do I really have to go back to work tomorrow? I’m not...
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strengthsuniversity
- Nov 14, 2023
- 5 min
Why Giving Thanks Isn’t Just for Thanksgiving
It’s been a rough semester many of you, so I want to keep this short. Next week, we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. In...
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strengthsuniversity
- Oct 31, 2023
- 9 min
Let’s Discuss the CUPA-HR 2023 Higher Education Employee Retention Survey
This week in the Supervisor Strengths Institute, we’re talking about coaching. Over the weekend, I was working on a conference session on...
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strengthsuniversity
- Sep 19, 2023
- 10 min
How Fake News is Ruining Your Life
When I say fake news, what do you think of? Facebook? Politics? Ridiculous claims that are obviously false? Well, what if I told you that...
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strengthsuniversity
- Sep 5, 2023
- 10 min
What Even Is the Supervisor Strengths Institute?
Most of you have gotten your students back on campus for the fall term, so as the craziness of August winds down I wanted to switch our...
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strengthsuniversity
- Aug 25, 2023
- 5 min
August 911 (Part 2) | 3 Ways to Reset in Minutes
This is the second part of the August 911 series because, well, it’s still August and you’re probably still feeling overwhelmed and...
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strengthsuniversity
- Aug 7, 2023
- 10 min
August 911 (Part 1)
Whelp, it’s August. That means back to school business. And it typically means exhaustion, overwhelm, and stress, especially for...
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