October is National Self-Promotion Month, so I want to take this opportunity to reintroduce myself. I am Nicki Sanders, Founder and CEO of Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting. I am a Career Strategist, Employee Engagement Consultant, and College Professor who holds a Master’s degree in Social Work with a concentration in Management and Community Organization and […]
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I am a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, an entrepreneur, and a professor who teaches undergraduate course at a women’s liberal arts university. I have spent the majority of my career working with and on behalf of women and girls. John Lewis…Ruth Bader Ginsburg…2020 has been unusually cruel and cancer sucks!!
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COVID-19 has allowed me to reflect and reevaluate. 2020 has allowed me to experience frustration, grief, and confusion as well as rest and release. Nothing in my life is business as usual right now. I dare say nothing in the world is business as usual at this time. I am adjusting. I hold myself to
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It seems the recurring theme for this year is to ‘expect the unexpected’ and ‘stay ready so you don’t have to get ready’. Growing up in Washington, DC, school started for me the day after Labor Day. Labor Day was always the unofficial end of summer vacation. September is when the weather begins to shift
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March on Washington 2020 Instigated from the protest movement that has risen up since the police killing of George Floyd, the ‘Get Off Our Necks’ Commitment March on Washington will be a day of action that will demonstrate The National Action Network’s commitment to fighting for policing and criminal justice. The Commitment March will take
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Potential and current employers are interested in what you can do for them. They want to know what you bring to the table. A Career Achievement Log is a resource where your skills, successes and accomplishments are recorded. It is the evidence that you have what you need to succeed professionally. 3 Reasons You Need
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Authenticity: Saying and doing the things that I truly believe! Although most people who meet me think I am shy or quiet, I have always advocated for myself…and for almost everyone else LOL. I mastered code-switching decades ago – an essential life skill for Black people. Diplomacy is a transferable skill that has served me
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Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Africans were still enslaved on July 4, 1776. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and
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Black history is American history. Black history is taught in many schools as an elective or only during the month of February and sometimes still not taught at all. Black voices have been silenced and our stories buried or diluted for centuries. We will no longer be silent! “The more you know your history, the
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Following World War I, Tulsa, Oklahoma was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.” On May 31, 1921, Dick Rowland, a black man, was imprisoned for allegedly assaulting a white woman. A mob assembles
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