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Yes, We Still Need Black History Month

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Yes, We Still Need Black History Month

Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of blacks in U.S. history. Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, […]

Gift Yourself A Career Strategy Session This Valentine’s Day

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Gift Yourself A Career Strategy Session This Valentine’s Day

I began my January 2020 Career Acceleration Series with an introduction of the theme, “begin with the end in mind”. During the final week I focused solely on the end – your goals. (I invite you to head to the Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting page to catch the replays) 1/26/20 – Be Consistent 1/27/20 – […]

How Is Your Current Job Impacting Your Life?

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 31, 2020 | Comments Off on How Is Your Current Job Impacting Your Life?

Our identity can be tied up in our title, salary, or corner office. Many of us spend more time at work with our colleagues than our waking hours at home with our families – especially those who have long commutes or multiple jobs. What’s more, we often try but fail to leave work at work […]

Conversation with Nicki Sanders and Lisette Engel, MPA, Community Advocate

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 29, 2020 | Comments Off on Conversation with Nicki Sanders and Lisette Engel, MPA, Community Advocate

Lisette Engel has had a passion for justice since youth. She is Montgomery County, MD native who strongly believes in the power of community engagement and allowing people to be engaged in policies and programming that impact them directly. While enrolled in a college course during her high school years, Lisette’s class was tasked with […]

Offering You Strategic Career Management Services

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 27, 2020 | Comments Off on Offering You Strategic Career Management Services

Your life and career are on a continuum. Career management is the lifelong process of investing resources into your career to maintain or increase your value in the workplace, undertake work that is personally satisfying, strive for work/life balance, and achieve financial security. Mid-level managers, are you ready to become a more bold, authentic, effective, […]

Want to Be Emotionally Resilient? Science Says Do This

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 24, 2020 | Comments Off on Want to Be Emotionally Resilient? Science Says Do This

Want to Be Emotionally Resilient? Science Says Do This Anyone can do it and it doesn’t cost a thing. Inc. | By Minda Zetlin Do you worry a lot? Sometimes over things you absolutely can’t control, so that worrying about them serves no practical purpose? Do you think you worry too much? Do you worry […]

Can I Really Teach This?

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Can I Really Teach This?

I wrote the following after receiving messages from my team at the conclusion of the Crittenton 2019 “Talk with a Teen Girl” High Tea. Screenshots of their messages are below. “I am vulnerable and authentic with my team. I’m not the ‘hood keeping it real’ type but they know want I expect but also that […]

Email Subject: I am so proud and appreciative

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 20, 2020 | Comments Off on Email Subject: I am so proud and appreciative

Question 1: How authentic or vulnerable can you be with your team? [The Formal Description] For 10 years, Crittenton Services emerging leader training programming has worked to hone girls’ leadership, advocacy, and communication skills. As the scope and capacity of this work has grown, we created a cornerstone experience, an intensive weekend-long conference called the Leadership […]

A List Of 8 Core Values I Live By

By Nicki Sanders | Jan 17, 2020 | Comments Off on A List Of 8 Core Values I Live By

A List Of 8 Core Values I Live By Our values matter not because of how we are perceived, but because of how they define our character and set us apart from all others. ByDarius Foroux Your character is defined by values. And your core values are the result of your behavior. Aristotle said it […]