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Secrets of Confident and Smart Long-Term Travel
Endings are powerful experiences. As the season of shopping, glittering lights and cookies gains momentum, we are letting go of the final days of 2012. How was it for you? Living the life you want? Too busy for much of anything? Cat got your tongue? Soon we’ll all receive the greatest gift of all – […]
Transformations: What Gen Y Wants and How Businesses Can Offer Them
Last Friday, I attended a compelling business presentation on “Turning Potential into Performance in Generation Y” by Dr. Tim Elmore of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta- based non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. Tim talked about the different markets that have been established by the last five generations: The market for the “Greatest Generation” (1900-1928) […]
Recession Outcome: An Acquired Taste for Free Time?
While some organizations excitedly complete the final design of their first Sabbatical Program, McDonald’s could literally yawn. Their sabbatical program is more than 40 years old. While there is nothing quite like debriefing with a person who’s just returned from their first career break imagine how intrigued we are to interview employees of two other […]
Petersen Tests Career Change from CSI with Sabbatical
The gig made the actor very, very famous and very, very rich; it wasn’t easy to leave. In the end, it was too safe for him. Even in this economy, career evaluation is important. Petersen used a 4-week sabbatical in season 7 to test the waters back into the theater. More on him in a […]
Golden Giving: Volunteer Overseas With a Paycheck
While some of us are content to pick up a hammer to help Habitat in our communities, others have wanderlust wrapped around their desire to help others. During the last week, likely your heart has broken or at least felt a wee bit blubbery with news of the human suffering from tragedies in Myanmar and […]