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Question of the Day: What Is A Lady?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 10, 2021 | 0 Comments

Self-love is accepting yourself, treating yourself with kindness and respect, cultivating your growth and nurturing your well-being. Work is such a large part of our lives and identities that self-love must include work/life balance and career development.  I believe that self-love also includes the words/names we use to describe and define ourselves.   Today I […]

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Day 8: End Your Workday On Time

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 8, 2021 | 0 Comments

You should never feel guilty for leaving work on time. An occasional early morning or late evening is to be expected – especially if you are working on a special or large project or if your job gets busy at a certain time of the year. What is unacceptable is making overworking the norm. Overextending […]

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What Can You Talk About For 30 Minutes?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 5, 2021 | 0 Comments

I am a member of an entrepreneurship group for women on Facebook that posed the question, “What can you talk about for 30 minutes without preparation”? My response, “career confidence, building a successful career in human services, value of internships, how to be a successful leader/build a high-performing team, gaining visibility in the workplace, developing […]

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Welcome to Black History Month 2021

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 3, 2021 | 0 Comments

Welcome to Black History Month! Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing our central role in US history. The event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every US president has […]

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Self-Love Includes Career Development

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 1, 2021 | 0 Comments

Welcome to February 2021! Many will celebrate love on Valentine’s Day this month. I encourage you to practice more self-love this month. Self-love is an appreciation of one’s own worth. Self-love is accepting yourself, treating yourself with kindness and respect, cultivating your growth and nurturing your well-being. Self-love is prioritizing your health – physical, mental, […]

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Conversation with Nicki Sanders and Anjelious Farmer, MBA, Nonprofit Founder and Senior Engagement Manager

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 29, 2021 | 0 Comments

Anjelious Farmer defines leadership as having the desire and passion to get the sum of parts working together in unity. Anjelious, along with the women in her family, have always been detail-oriented, organized and planners with a mindset to execute and get things done efficiently and effectively. In college, she joined several organizations where she […]

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What Is the Job of Your Dreams?

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 27, 2021 | 0 Comments

Specificity is an essential key to success. When you have a clearly defined goal, it is much easier to target, track, and actualize. Where do you REALLY want to work? How do you want to earn a living and make a contribution? Have you taken the time to decide for yourself what the job of your […]

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Two $731,000,000 Questions

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 25, 2021 | 0 Comments

A small convenience store in Allegany County in Maryland sold a winning $731.1 million Powerball ticket last week — the fourth-largest for Powerball and the sixth-largest U.S. lottery jackpot. Would you quit your job if you won $731,000,000 in the lottery? Would you submit a letter of resignation? If I won $731,000,000 I would absolutely […]

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The 2021 Inauguration Was The Awesomeness We All Deserved

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 22, 2021 | 0 Comments

Congratulations to the 46th President of the United States of America, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman and woman of color to hold that position. This dynamic duo is exactly what we need and deserve at this time. Despite the lies and tantrum of 45, the extreme division in […]

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