Last night while watching NBC Nightly News, they featured a story about people looking for work and a center that provides them with classes and coaching. One of the exercises that the job seekers were required to participate in involved being videoed while mock interviewed. Afterward, they were required to watch a playback of the video but with the sound turned down. Why? Well, if you’ve ever taking a public speaking class, you know that usually one of the assignments requires you to be taped speaking so you can see [...]

Like most people, I woke up yesterday morning and was greeted by a somewhat new interface on my Facebook page. The changes were minor but enough to disrupt my usual routine. It was apparent that what I was looking for was much more difficult to find and everything else seemed to be overly complicated. I wasn’t the only one having difficulty adjusting to these changes. I checked  my news feed and saw post after post of people complaining about the new look of their home page and how much they [...]

By now, we’ve all seen or heard about the infamous meltdown of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant during a recent game. And we’ve all heard the derogatory slur he hurled at a referee. Obviously, this is not the first time we have heard an anti-gay slur in the NBA, but it was the first time that a player was seriously fined. Why?? Imagine if you had a similar tantrum at work and called your boss a derogatory term (pick one). What would happen? I am pretty sure you’d probably be fired [...]

Nancy confided to me of a difficult relationship at work. She said she had been friendly to “Bill” when he first arrived, but his sour expressions angered her. He never acknowledged her presence and Nancy had had enough. She was now offering Bill an angry expression in return. She would show him. “I’m not willing to be nice to him anymore,” she said. “He’ll just be a jerk and I don’t want to put myself out for that.” Yet, at the same time, Nancy hated carrying a grudge and a [...]