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As we continue delving into how to maximize your potential at work, another practical tool I’ve found very useful is a simple exercise called Review/Preview. While the exercise is simple, as with other such exercises, many people don’t have the discipline to apply it.    Here are a couple of Biblical groundings for the exercise: Similar to last week’s blog …

I can’t begin to count the number of people I’ve spoken with over the years who feel that their boss either doesn’t seem to appreciate what they do at work, or even worse, they feel their boss doesn’t really have a clue as to what they actually do! Unfortunately, most managers/supervisors aren’t actually very good at managing/supervising.  While they would …

This famous title song from The Clash (1982) sums up what many in today’s workforce are thinking: Should I stay or should I go…  This indecision’s bugging me   If you don’t want me, set me free…    Come on and let me know    Should I cool it or should I blow In the years following the pandemic, millions wrestled with that …

As we mentioned in last week’s blog, we are focused on topics related to the Great Resignation we think might be useful to you. I’m sure most of you recall the game of chicken…an event where two individuals square off against one another and then charge toward each other with what appears to be an outcome of a head on …

The New Year is a great time to assess your current situation and plan for the future. With that usually comes reflections and resolutions, and as you all probably have seen with the Great Resignation, many people have chosen to leave their positions. Many aspects affect those decisions, and for the rest of January, we’re going to be talking about …

It’s the holiday season, a time of joy, activity, shopping, parties with lots of food, cookies, candy and, of course, family gatherings. I love the holidays, but when you don’t have a job, the first reaction is to not feel quite as merry as in previous years. All sorts of thoughts run through your head and you might be saying …

One Tuesday afternoon after work, I was getting a haircut and catching up on current events with my barber. Typically, our conversations tend to be short; however, things were a bit different this time. You see, his wife was unemployed and conducting a job search. Unfortunately, the search was not going as well as he would have liked.

Most people see our mission of helping people hear God calling, maximizing their potential, and getting the right job as being all about the job seeker…and they’re correct! But a significant component of accomplishing that mission ALSO involves the critical constituent of employers. Without them, after all, the job seeker has many less areas to land. At our National Conference …

What if I told you that living out your calling from God is like rowing a boat?  That’s because there are actually two main aspects of hearing God calling that function together and must be kept in balance. That’s why teachers and theologians often make a distinction between “primary calling” and “secondary calling.”  Primary Calling A great definition of primary …

“The pandemic has made people rethink their lives and their work,” declared a recent news article, one of many reporting on what’s now being called the Great Resignation.  Analysts point to a variety of reasons for the mismatch between the 8.4 million potential workers who are unemployed, and the record 10.9 million jobs open (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Some of …