It’s November, the time we traditionally start to think about gratitude. But I want to go a different route. I know many of you are...

It’s still October, so I thought I’d continue with more scary things that plague supervisors. We talked about stress last episode, so...

It’s October, so Halloween is right around the corner. Now some people love to be scared, and if that’s you this is the perfect season....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

When we were at ACPA we did a session titled, “Refocusing on Employee Engagement Ensures Team, Student, and Institutional Success.” As...

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....

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,...

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...

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...