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My National Work and Family Month Flashback
By Solstice72 On October 25, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Human Resources, Organizations, Work-Life Fit, Workplace and Employment
Every October, National Work and Family Month gives me flashbacks.
When I became pregnant, I was a manager at a high-tech company. My job was at least fifty hours a week and, given a recent merger, would now include coast-to-coast travel. With my husband working crazy hours as a new associate at a law […]
Recently, one of my clients said to me in frustration, “My team and I are so busy with our work that it drives me crazy to have to deal with all these internal political issues that waste my time.”
I’ve heard many forms of this familiar chorus, usually accompanied by anger, frustration or […]
A tweet from the Unversity of Chicago Urban Education Institute last week pointed me to this Washington Post article, Study: Single-Sex Education May Do More Harm Than Good.
I have always been opposed to single-sex schools myself, even though I have friends who had wonderful experiences in single-sex schools growing up or in […]
In the interests of full disclosure, I have several reasons to be partial to the book I’m about to review, Catch and Release: A Fezzy Wog Adventure ($9.99).
I’ve known the author, Christy Eichers, since Kindergarten. Yes Kindergarten, that’s one of the perks of growing up in a small town in […]
How Twitter Helped Me Beat My Monday Morning Funk
By Solstice72 On October 4, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Business Advice, Career-Life Fit, Change, Social Media, Time, Traveling
Last Monday morning I found myself stuck to the chair in my kitchen. I just couldn’t seem to make myself move from the kitchen to my home office to get started on the various projects of the day. So I tweeted my malaise to the Twitterverse.
“I.am.procrastinating.”
My friend @micheledortch replied quickly.
“I […]
This past June I had the pleasure once again of being part of the team at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) that led the Linked Learning Summer Institute for a group of districts in California in the middle of implementing college and career pathways in their high schools.
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The Sandwich Generation
By Solstice72 On September 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Career, Career-Life Fit, Mothers & Fathers
Though I’m not sure I welcome the picture of myself as a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich oozing Velveeta cheese …I appreciate Career Diva’s post Working Women are like Philly Cheesesteaks on the sandwich generation and its impact on women’s careers in particular.
I watched my own mother take her first step into the workforce […]
Workplace Culture Wins Every Time
By Solstice72 On September 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Career-Life Fit, Organizations, Work-Life Fit
Last week reading a few new articles on worklife fit, brought to mind a mantra I have about organizational change.
In the battle between well-intentioned policies and the unwritten rules of any workplace, unwritten rules win every time.
From the Sloan Center on Aging and Work came this Fact of the Week, Few Employers […]
Our daughter headed to middle school this year, and as a former Director of Technology for a K-12 school, I felt like I should have a grand plan for teaching her what she needs to know about computers, the Internet, and social media.
Since we used the American Girl book “The Care and […]
5 Rules You Should Eliminate Now
By Solstice72 On July 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Business Advice, Career-Life Fit, Mothers & Fathers, Work-Life Fit
Love Margaret Heffernan, and rarely have seen so much truth about organizations packed in so few words.
~Kristin
Published originally on BNet.com by Margaret Heffernan.
The dirty little secret of business today: there really are no agreed-upon ways of doing business anymore. Every company does everything differently, and you can’t really compare […]
A great read about Linked Learning in the latest Education Week.
~ Kristin
With a program called Linked Learning, California educators show that academics and career and technical education don’t have to be mutually exclusive By Catherine Gewertz Porterville, Calif.
To the national debate about whether students should pursue career […]
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by Lori Takeuchi, Ph.D. | June 2011 | View Bio
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Families Matter focuses on two complementary studies that document how families with young children are integrating digital media into the rhythm of daily life. Results from a survey of more than 800 parents of children ages […]
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You Can Do What Mayer and Slaughter Do
What’s stunning about the reaction to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” and the news that new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pregnant is the size and scope of the reaction itself.
And I can explain that reaction with a screen shot.
Those two tweets.
The […]