Dreams of career success and professional ascension are typically very significant within the first few years after graduation for Millennials. After years of learning and testing, many of these participants of the workforce want a meaningful return on the personal investments of their education. However, the timeline and definition by which these dreams and ascensions are expected to occur have changed over the past generations. Where prior generations were willing to allow around 5 to 7 years ...

Proper onboarding is neither an event nor a process, but it is a steady progression of inducting a professional as a welcomed member into the organizational body. It more closely reflects the way a new child is inducted into a family and is allowed to add their own flavor to the family unit.

POOR ONBOARDING STATISTICS

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has reported that 1 in every 25 of all employees leave their jobs due to poor onboarding. This is alarming when we consider the c...

As a man of the faith (I'm not shy at all in announcing that), at times I like to review some of the contrast in the common professional philosophies and biblical teachings. In this case, there is a seemingly strict divergence between the biblical and worldly philosophy on the growing of professional gifts and the results that they provide in the arena of opportunity. Biblically, it would seem that a gift (assuming that it has been manifested and matured) is the catalyst by which those in power ...

Every working professional has to deal with other people in some form or another. The workplace is the corporate professional’s representation of the field, court, track, slope or other place in which a sport is played. While execution of work in these arenas are generally not considered a game, one must admit that we are grouped into teams, we each have a position, there is generally a way to score goals through tasks, sale or project execution and we draft (hire) fire (release) or transfer (tr...

Thankfully, Leadership as a concept has become a more popular topic of interest and a major contributor to much of the organizational buzzwords being used currently such as human capital and networks, as well as being a catalyst to operational processes and management trends in recent years. However, I believe that the misappropriation of this concept is the most pressing issue of Leadership itself today.

President Woodrow Wilson aptly described, in my opinion, what needs to be the basic m...

In today's professional marketplace it is important that people make a concentrated effort to know what their professional gift(s), or as Steve Harvey, world renown entertainer and author [Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success] describes as "the thing you do at your absolute best with the least amount of effort.” Other ways to describe it is a niche, specific capabilities, expertise or a unique blend of abilities.

Do you know who you truly are as a professional? Do you have a firm and detail...

Originally Written by: Andrew Ferebee

There are two basic paths to becoming more attractive. Become a better human being (internal) or become a better-looking human being (external.) Here are a few quick ideas for maximizing them both.

How to Become a More Attractive (Better) Human Being:

1. Volunteer

Volunteering helps give you perspective on your life and give back to those less fortunate than you. Nothing more attractive than this.

2. Have a definite purpose

A man or woman on purpose is...