The Role that Leaders Play in Creating the New “Office” Experience
We are all experiencing a big shift in the way we work. Even prior to the pandemic, more people were working remotely than ever before. Now, 42 percent of the U.S. labor force is working from home full-time, according to new research from Stanford University. Most of...
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Avoiding Tokenism
Tokenism: the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce. In my last...
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Leading During a Time of Crisis
The COVID 19 pandemic is certainly giving us the opportunity to see how leaders perform during a time of crisis. It is also making us more aware than ever, the important role true leadership plays in supporting our society when uncertainty is the norm. We have all...
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2019 Recap
Happy New Year! As someone who takes goal-setting seriously, I enjoy looking back on the year, assessing progress I’ve made and looking ahead to all that I still want to do. While long lists of New Year's resolutions often set you up for failure, I prefer to...
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Beat ‘Em With Your Brains
An Interview with Dr. Eve J. Higginbotham on Diversity in Leadership In the past few years, there has been much public discussion over gender equality. While not nearly enough progress has been made in the fight for equal pay or representation at the highest levels,...
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My Top 3
During my years at CHOP, I have received wonderful advice from managers and colleagues that has helped me advance my career in ways I never imagined possible when I was starting out as a young nurse. I strongly believe the most important part of my job is to develop...
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Are We Sending our Daughters into a Workplace Designed for our Dads?
Recently, philanthropist and businesswoman, Melinda Gates, spoke about the idea of reimagining the modern workplace. In an article published on LinkedIn titled,“We’re Sending our Daughters into a Workplace Designed for our Dads” she advocated,“new technologies, new...
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The Upside of Vulnerability
Vul·ner·a·bil·i·ty [noun]The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. We live in a culture with an ever-increasing focus on perfection. Whether it’s at home or in the workplace, we put so much...
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Knowing Your Bandwidth
I began thinking about this post a few weeks ago, on a typical Sunday evening. My husband Lou and I had been traveling and we’d just returned home. I intended to use the evening to get the kitchen ready for our remodel that was about to begin, pack up everything that...
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