by Laurie Swanson | Dec 24, 2018 | Career Blog
I was at a holiday party this past week and learned of an organization that helps coal miners retool themselves as computer programmers! This organization takes coal miners who are out of work or want out of THAT work, puts them through a coding bootcamp, and then...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 17, 2018 | Career Blog
I love dictionary.com. They send me a Word of the Day and I am often surprised at how appropriate the word they send is to whatever I am involved in at that moment. Like this week-I had just hung up with a coaching client who was talking about how she did not...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 11, 2018 | Career Blog
“Mom, TI is not a word.” “Yes it is.” “Uh, no it isn’t!!” “TI as in DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, TI, DO from Sound of Music. The words of the notes of music. Each of those are considered acceptable words in Scrabble.” I challenged her and lost. TI was a...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 3, 2018 | Career Blog
Over Thanksgiving the family got out an oldie-but-a-goodie game called Would You Rather? If you have never played the game it basically asks you to choose between two things that are sometimes hard to choose between and often so unappealing you do not want to choose...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 17, 2017 | Career Blog
September 25th was one of my favorite days because The Voice was back! For me, The Voice is right up there with Super Soul Sunday as the show that moves me whenever I watch. I just feel good. In the first show of the new season, Esera Tuaolo was a contestant. Esera...
