What’s the Root of Your Biggest Problem? | Episode 145 Summary
This past week, episode 145 of My Circus, My Monkeys: What’s the Root of Your Biggest Problem dropped. Read More: Key Takeaways: ● ...
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Oct 202 min read
Focusing on Supervising #Connectedness | Summary of Episode 144 of My Circus, My Monkeys
Key Takeaways: ● Effective leadership is not just about technical skills: While understanding supervisory techniques is essential,...
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Oct 22 min read
Summary of Episode 143: Staying Regulated – An Interview with Morgan Starr-Riestis
Morgan Starr-Riestis, LMHC, PATP , is a licensed therapist with a bachelor's in cognitive neuroscience, wellness, and human biology and a...
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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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Aug 142 min read
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 310 min read
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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May 2111 min read
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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May 98 min read
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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Apr 237 min read
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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Mar 2611 min read
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 2619 min read
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 2710 min read
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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Feb 2712 min read
Answering Your Questions about Having Difficult Conversations
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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Jan 167 min read
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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Jan 37 min read
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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Dec 13, 20238 min read
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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Nov 29, 202311 min read
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, 20235 min read
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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Oct 31, 20239 min read
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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Sep 19, 202310 min read
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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