Lessons Learned after Surviving 2 Years of COVID-19 Pandemic What are your lessons learned from these last couple of years? I know you have learned things about yourself, your family, and/or your work colleagues. We have all been thrown out of our comfort zone in one way or another. How we reacted and behaved when […]
Are You Playing the Blame Game in These Uncertain Times?
Playing the Blame Game? Are you playing the blame game? Trying to find someone to blame for the problems that you have no control over. Believe me, there are a lot of problems in the world that neither you nor I have any control over. Whether it is other people’s behavior, government or company mandates, […]
2022 Uncertain Predictions for those over 50 Years of Age
2022 Uncertain Predictions I wrote the post, 2021 Uncertain Predictions for those over 50 Years of Age a year ago when things were incredibly uncertain. One would have thought back then that by the beginning of 2022, we would not have so much uncertainty. If you had made that prediction you would have been proved wrong. […]
COVID-19 Early Retirement Trend has Exploded but Can It Continue?
COVID-19 Early Retirement Trend has Exploded The COVID-19 early retirement is here but can it continue? Can the economy sustain the brain drain of millions of baby boomers retiring? More importantly, can these retirees stay retired or will they return to the workforce because they lack financial resources for retirement? Employers are contending with growing […]
Start Your 2022 Career Planning for the Post COVID-19 World!
Start Your 2022 Career Planning for the Post COVID-19 World Now is the time to start your 2022 Career Planning for the Post COVID-19 World. The world of work has changed so much in the last 18 months. Hopefully, you have woken up and started to re-evaluate what you are doing in your career and […]
Career and Industry Disruption – You Just Can’t Make this Stuff Up!
Career and Industry Disruption I have been writing and speaking on career and industry disruption for most of 2021. The more I dig into the industry disruption I keep seeing a correlation to career disruption. Some of this is people experiencing the industry disruption being caused by a variety of calamities and therefore, causing them […]
Own Your Life, Career, and Future in the Post COVID-19 World
Own Your Life, Career, and Future Are you ready to Own Your Career, Life, and Future? I have been speaking with many job clubs and other organization leaders about what they are seeing with their constituents. Many have told me that as we hit the 18-month mark of the COVID-19 pandemic fatigue has set in. […]
A Discussion about Older Workers and ‘The Big Quit’ with Chris Farrell [Podcast]
Podcast #235 – A Discussion about Older Workers and ‘The Big Quit’ Description: This week I am speaking with Chris Farrell. I have had Chris on the podcast three other times. I had him on in episodes 2, 177, and 201. So you can tell he is one of my favorite guests. Chris is currently […]
Nurturing Relationships is Key to Recovering from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nurturing Relationships I have come to the conclusion that if we want to recover from this pandemic, both professionally and personally, we need to focus on nurturing relationships. After I had 26 coffee meetings while I was in Austin for the month of May, I was quite taken aback by how much difficulty some of […]
