Step Out. Step Up.
By 2019, Generation X – born from 1965 to 1978 – will have spent two decades seeking a nod from the Boomers holding senior decision-making jobs. But a little over nine years from now, that will end.
Janet Reid, managing partner at Global Lead, a consulting firm that advises companies like PepsiCo and Proctor & [...]
Dan Clements is the author of Escape 101: Sabbaticals Made Simple. He and his wife have taken several sabbaticals – the most recent was a 5-month career break to rural Paraguay, South America with their five-year old daughter. Dan was kind enough to share the following insights on taking sabbaticals with children. I sure love [...]
While I hate to lambast a respected journalist, and best-selling author, I will. When Peggy Noonan declares that this Thanksgiving serves up a “new gratitude,” she proceeds to offer up her thoughts as well as her friends’ ideas for what deserves gratitude. Their ideas stink.
Declarations, Noonan’s column for the Wall Street Journal, Still Here After a Rough [...]
In conversations for the past three days, the phrase, “run away” has predominated my vocabulary with interesting results. I’ve done more than just use the phrase in passing; I’ve suggested it to people as an outright solution for any woe. If the person was having a rough day at work, Tropical Storm Ida had made [...]
A sabbatical without a plan is a vacation. And while you might think that just getting “away on vacation” will fill your energy bowl – you are mistaken.
A planned, career break with goals gets you closer to rejuvenation. But if you seek sustainable, energy renewal to bring back to your life and career, your [...]
Want on Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies List next year? Or perhaps, your company achieved the honor but now wants to stay on the list. Move up? You say you’d sell your grandmother to make that happen? Whoa now. Let’s consider keeping Granny.
Rather, design a career sabbatical program to align with “trends” they’ll be [...]
Working Mother Magazine honored this year’s 100 Best Companies at the 2009 WorkLife Congress in NYC last week. Elizabeth, co-founder of yourSABBATICAL, and I were invited to present and facilitate a session, Career Sabbatical Programs that Retain, Recruit and Develop Talent.
Along with participants wildly interested in having a sabbatical program at their companies, some attended for [...]