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Marietta Stalcup

Avoid Getting Trapped: 3 Mind Traps to Avoid If You Want to Be Happy at Work 

An article from the Harvard Business Review, entitled “Happiness Traps: How We Sabotage Ourselves at Work,” the author suggests we accept this unhappiness because we are trapped. Trapped by one, or all, of three common happiness traps: The Ambition Trap, The Should Trap, and The Overwork Trap. Read on to learn what are they, how they contribute to unhappiness at work, and what can we avoid these three traps?

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Examining Your Experiences
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Marietta Stalcup

Examining Your Experience: How reframing your story can change your life

Growing up, my mom frequently asked me, “What will people think of you?” At the time, I did not genuinely appreciate the impact these words had on me until my coach, Jonathan Jerden, assigned me an exercise. He asked me to revisit past events and memories – beginning with my childhood and working my way to the present – to explore and evaluate how seminal events and key people impacted my beliefs, assumptions, thinking, and thus my behaviors. As I did this, the question, “Why do I care so much about what people think of me?” bubbled to the surface. By reflecting on this question while examining my experience, I could trace its origins back to my mom’s recurring question.

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Heidi Thompson, MBA

CQ: Cultural Intelligence – Why You Need It Now

“Get comfortable being uncomfortable with people from different countries.” Robin Scheffer, Director Price Waterhouse Coopers Netherlands told my MBA students during an interactive Zoom session he was leading. Solving complex global issues requires cultural intelligence. An MBA student once remarked that she didn’t think it necessary to learn about other cultures because she had no intentions

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Marietta Stalcup

The Great Reprioritization: Should I Stay or Go?

6-Steps To Take To Help You Decide If You Should Change Jobs This year, the question on the minds of many is “Should I Stay, or Should I Go?” According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.5 million Americans resigned in November 2021. And, if you believe the myriad of surveys circling on many

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