I had a couple of millennials on my team during my Manager/Leader years, and they are a completely different than my generation in the best possible way. The speed and efficiency with which the millennials can process complex technical information that boggles my mind. They are blank slates and their brains are like sponges that absorb all kinds of information and stimuli. We all have to be conscious to filter a few things that we say and do just a little bit, as most of us have twenty-plus years of experience and these folks have just three. They do take things at face value and yet don’t have the experience to read between the lines or learn how to filter some of the chatter that goes on. I’m happy to report, that this has not changed from the time some of us were twenty-somethings ourselves. I’ll leave working and training millennials alone for the moment as I’m still trying to develop best practices without sounding like a parent. There are exceptions though, and one of those topics that are covered in the theme of this blog. Continue reading “Here’s Why I Don’t Need a Financial Advisor”
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The Top 10 Skills You Will Master
Simon Sinek is my current favorite leadership teacher. He takes leadership and human motivation and puts them in incredibly simple terms. Most can identify with his style. He states out loud what I have been thinking for years but could never articulate the message the way he does. In the spirit of leadership, I have begun to compile a list of skills that we all will eventually master at various levels. These are the basics of my career management that I picked up along the way. They are in no particular order or priority. Continue reading “The Top 10 Skills You Will Master”
The Year End Wrap Up
Happy Holidays.
Thanks for coming back and checking in on the blog.
You’ve probably been wondering why the regular posts have come to a pause. Well, I’ve been focused on a few other things for these past several weeks. I have been reviewing much of the blog content this time of year for a couple of reasons. Mainly to check myself to make sure that I am walking the talk. Nearly forty-four posts contain nuggets of hindsight, resources, and my version of a “bottom line”. Continue reading “The Year End Wrap Up”