There’s an awkward gap between wanting to advance financially and wanting the actual job that comes next. I can want a raise and still have absolutely no desire to spend my vacation answering questions from a hotel room. Does the next step in your career look like something you actually want?

There are people I worked with who knew an entire version of my life that almost nobody else saw. Do you still talk to your work bestie from an old job? #WorkFriends #Coworkers #WorkLife #TheWorkplaceElective

You can spend an entire week helping a workplace move forward while putting your own plans on hold. If that’s been happening for a while, Build Your Own Career Development Plan gives you a place to think about what you want next. It’s under Resources on my website. Link in bio. 🌿 #TheWorkpla

One day you’re asking where everything is, and the next someone says, “Ask her, she’ll know.” What’s something people come to you for now that used to intimidate you? #WorkLife #CareerGrowth #LearningAtWork #TheWorkplaceElective

There’s a particular kind of awkwardness in watching your own idea get introduced to you. What do you say when this happens? #WorkplaceInclusion #WorkplaceCommunication #OfficeLife #TheWorkplaceElective

“Just get through this week” can be reasonable advice once in a while. When you’re saying it every Thursday, it might be time to look at what keeps making the weeks feel this way. My course Is It a Bad Week or a Bad Workplace? helps you spend some time with that question. You can find it thro

That awkward little performance of finding something to do because going home at your scheduled time somehow needs an explanation. Was leaving on time normal at your job, or did someone always have a comment? #CorporateCulture #WorkLifeBalance #OfficeLife #TheWorkplaceElective

The office-wide email. The mandatory meeting. The new sign-off sheet. Sometimes you can trace all three back to one conversation nobody wants to have. What’s a rule your whole team got because of one person? #OfficeLife #Management #WorkplaceCulture #TheWorkplaceElective

The moment you start documenting ordinary conversations “just in case” tells you something about how safe it feels to trust what happens at work. If you’re keeping notes after meetings, saving emails, and trying to make sense of a pattern that’s hard to explain when each incident sounds small on i

Sometimes the most tiring part of being “the person who knows” is that work can leave your desk without ever leaving your brain. #WorkplaceReality #InvisibleWork #Teamwork #TheWorkplaceElective