My feelings are inconsistent when I receive phone calls from potential employers asking me about students. Normally I am happy to give my students a glowing review. I do, after all, have great
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Leadership
Death to Comic Sans!
This post ran originally in April 2009. My hatred for Comic Sans has only intensified since that time. If every font has
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My Open Closed-Door Policy
I have an open closed-door policy. As a professor at a teaching university, I am encouraged to be present in the
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Disciplining Student Staff
One of the worst things about managing people is enacting discipline, no matter how necessary or deserved. The dread
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Who’s in Your Trust Network?
“A trusted network is a group of like-minded people who have come together in a common place to share thoughts, ideas
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7 Tips for Praising Others, Even If You Blush
I bet you're really tired of people telling you how good you are at your job. I bet you especially loathe it when
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How to Write an Elevator Pitch
This post is about Day 1 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge from ProBlogger Darren Rowse's eBook with the
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Managing your 21st Century reputation
One of the first things potential employers do when considering a stack of resumes is Google the individuals the think
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Nine reasons I ‘unfollow’ people on Twitter
"Are you Kenna Griffin?" Hmmm... Seems like a loaded question coming from a stranger. After all, I had just walked in
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11 tips for better meetings
Academia is meeting hell. I am not joking when I write that I have attended meetings to talk about
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