What’s the Most Important Thing You Can Do for Yourself and Your Team in August?
It’s almost August. While I’m sure most of you have been prepping all summer, August typically means long days, even more stress, and...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jul 11
- 15 min
How to Make Sure Your New Employees Stay Your Employees: Onboarding 101
We’ve been talking about getting your team ready for the fall for the past few articles. Today I want to talk about your onboarding...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jun 28
- 16 min
The Great Team Player Hoax
If you’re a supervisor, that means you have a team. Maybe it’s just a team of one or two people. Or maybe you directly and indirectly...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jun 14
- 6 min
Three Steps to Building a Winning Team
It’s June so many of you are probably getting your team ready for the fall semester. Maybe you’ve lost some folks and are hiring. Maybe...
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strengthsuniversity
- May 31
- 6 min
Do You Have Enough Space to Do Your Job Well?
It’s June. In April, I planned out four topics around spring cleaning and growth. Then in May I did the same thing around the topic of...
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strengthsuniversity
- May 17
- 11 min
What are You Actually Responsible For?
Welcome to episode 90 of My Circus, My Monkeys. In the last episode, the question I posed is “where is your energy going?” Why? Because...
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strengthsuniversity
- May 3
- 7 min
Where Is Your Energy Going?
The spring semester is almost over, so this month I want us to focus on resetting for the summer and fall. To do that, I have a few...
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strengthsuniversity
- Apr 26
- 4 min
How to Plant Seeds for Future Success in Just Two Minutes a Day
Question. Are you too busy to really do any professional development? Do you feel like, “sure I’d love to change how I do things, but I’m...
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strengthsuniversity
- Apr 19
- 8 min
How Clean Are Your Systems? | Spring Cleaning Challenge III
It’s spring cleaning time. We often equate that with throwing out things we don’t want or need anymore. Why? Because it gives us more...
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strengthsuniversity
- Apr 13
- 10 min
Throw Out the Stories That Hold You Back | Spring Cleaning Challenge
We're continuing our focus on spring cleaning this week, but turn our sights on the stories we have that keep us from achieving our...
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strengthsuniversity
- Apr 6
- 7 min
Too Much on Your Plate? How About a Spring-Cleaning Challenge?
It is officially spring, or rather the first full month of spring - April. And it’s traditionally the time to do our spring cleaning and...
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strengthsuniversity
- Mar 29
- 11 min
Is There a Dark Side to Being a Team Player?
Have you ever wished one of your staff members would be more of a team player? Have you ever been told you’re a team player? Or maybe...
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strengthsuniversity
- Mar 21
- 6 min
5 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement Now
When we were at ACPA we did a session titled, “Refocusing on Employee Engagement Ensures Team, Student, and Institutional Success.” As...
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strengthsuniversity
- Mar 15
- 5 min
How to Increase Your Daily Dose of Self-Care in 5 Minutes or Less
Last week I didn’t do a new article because we were at ACPA in St. Louis and quite frankly, I just didn’t have the capacity to do one....
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strengthsuniversity
- Mar 1
- 5 min
How Can I Get All of This Done and Still Be a Good Supervisor?
Okay, so this is going to be a quick article. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty exhausted. On my end, I’ve been finishing our new,...
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strengthsuniversity
- Feb 22
- 9 min
Three Secrets to Improving Employee Retention
In the past two articles, we talked about ways for folks to prep if they’re searching for a new job. But what if you have the opposite...
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strengthsuniversity
- Feb 9
- 7 min
Applying for the Right Jobs
Last week, I talked about how the first thing you should do when you start job hunting is understand your talents and how they show up at...
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strengthsuniversity
- Feb 2
- 9 min
Prepping for Interview Season
There are always jobs popping up in Higher Ed, but the spring semester is traditionally job-hunting season. Maybe you feel like it’s just...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jan 26
- 9 min
Three Reasons Understanding Your Talents Matters
We talk a lot about talents and strengths, but you may be thinking, “That’s interesting, but I’ve come pretty far in life without really...
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strengthsuniversity
- Jan 19
- 13 min
Getting to the Root of Why Your Employees Might Be Failing
Do you have any supervisor problems? Are your employees living up to your expectations? Are there people on your team who complain, have...
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