Work Awesome

When I first started working from home, I was still on someone else’s clock. I was lucky enough to have a boss who would be cool with us occasionally working in our home office. Of course, at this point, I didn’t have a home office. I had a room. SinceRead More

On college campuses around the country, communications majors are marginalized and scoffed, as students in basically every other degree program look down on the field as useless and simple. Still, every year, more and more graduates enter the job market with degrees in communication, and employers are welcoming them withRead More

The cover letter you submit along with your résumé isn’t just a throwaway; it’s an extremely important part of your job application. Your cover letter provides a great opportunity to make your case directly to the hiring manager. Take advantage of this opportunity by customizing your cover letter for eachRead More

Working at home is a dream of many, and for tens of thousands it’s a reality that brings us both tremendous joy and endless frustration. For the freelancer or the solopreneur, the only way to truly remain relevant in such a fast paced career path is to stay on topRead More

Being positive can help at work and not just because you might feel better about yourself because you have a positive attitude. There’s actual science that shows positivity can change our whole life and even increase our success at work. Professor Barbara Fredrickson, a professor of psychology at the UniversityRead More

We’ve all been there. New team. Old team. New goals. Complacency. How do you get your people fired up to accomplish a big goal? How do you motivate employees to bring their A-Game to work? Here are five ways to help you push complacency aside and start getting the GREATRead More

We all have dreams and hopes for the future — things that we want to achieve, places we want to visit or move to. Dreams are what can motivate us to get through school, to do the internship, to serve at the bottom until the pathway to the top opensRead More

There are a lot of articles and ideas about making the workplace more productive, but who is talking about making the workplace a happier place? Since we spend a third of our lives there, maybe we should spend just a few more minutes thinking and talking about that. And whileRead More