I want to take the time today to recap my leadership philosophy: 1. Leadership is a privilege 2. Leadership is about impact and influence, not a title 3. Leadership is earned, not demanded 4. Leadership is about transformation, not transactions 5. Great leaders create more great leaders Have you confirmed your leadership core values […]
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Welcome to April and the start of quarter 2 of 2025! April Is: National Internship Awareness Month Stress Awareness Month Financial Literacy Month 🎂 Nicki’s Birthday Month ♈️ We understand that overworking is not a badge of honor. Take some time to celebrate and enjoy life today. “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever
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Question: Is Social Media Essential for Professionals? I have built a personal brand and gained many clients and connections and taken many courses on social media, but the truth is that I am on social media because I am an entrepreneur. I’m unsure if I would have given in to social media if that
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Wednesday Wisdom: Social work skills are highly transferable, high-income skills…but I haven’t always prioritized salary and benefits in my career. Money was never enough reason for me to accept a position, enjoying my work was the priority. My years of letting love of my work replace financial gain wasn’t enough either because there was
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Even though I LOVED my work, my staff, and our program participants… Here are 3 times I knew it was beyond my time to leave a job that had become toxic for me: (1) I started showing up late to my own meeting that I scheduled and planned to lead (2) I woke up
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I have great ideas in the shower, but my best ideas come to me when I first awake in the morning. What about you? From a professional standpoint, I am an idea generator and a problem-solver. I embrace creativity and I’ve trained myself to see possibilities. One of my professional gifts is to help
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I AM MY OWN CASE STUDY: Define social work career success on your own terms Social work students New social workers Experienced social workers Licensed social workers Unlicensed social workers Social work leaders Macro social workers Social work entrepreneurs Social work professors Environmental social worker High-performing Women of Color in social work leadership. Discover
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As a Social Work Career Empowerment Coach, integrity and transparency are important to me. We talk a lot about procrastination as a form of self-sabotage. Want to know how else my self-sabotage has shown its head over the years? Overthinking, over-researching, and over-planning without taking calculated risks and concrete actions. I’ve given them up!
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Strategic 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. The 3 pillars in my strategic career management framework are clarity, credibility, and congruency. Pillar 1 Clarity: What
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I’ve taught Introduction to Human Relations since 2015. Most professionals are unaware of human relations as a college major and professional discipline and that presents an additional challenge in the job market for my students. I begin each semester with a focus on grasping a full understanding of Human Relations which includes developing a
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