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- Aug 27, 2018
The Future of Leadership is HyperQ
The influence and impact of a leader is fast accelerating into a new stratosphere of success. No longer will an individual rise to the top simply because he or she is a brilliant technician with a few good Success Skills at bay. Instead success will be recognized at the top because he or she demonstrates Hyper Intelligent Leadership. This is the Future of Leadership that will shape our future of work. Why should you care? You should care because the future of work has already
- Jun 19, 2018
Social Innovation for the Future of College Career Education (Part 2): Lessons from Early Social Inn
I gravitate toward everyday leaders who are trying to be courageous in the way they lead. I get the joy of hearing their stories and helping many of them in the university career services field. I am grateful, and inspired often. To me, leadership courage is humble boldness in the face of uncertainty, fear, or unpopular notions. Courage almost always comes about because of multi-dimensional personal or societal problems, and is usually employed for some sort of freedom. St
- May 22, 2018
Social Innovation for the Future of College Career Education (Part 1): The Big Problem
In the field of University Career Services, the word INNOVATION has been thrown around quite a bit in the last five years... at conferences, events, in white papers, on twitter, and from specific university leaders. I have unashamedly been a proponent, and I absolutely love seeing the result of many voices leaning-in toward innovative changes for a better future for career services. Some universities are solving very large problems with a lot of creative energy, and are see
- Aug 16, 2017
Scaling Career Services (Part 2 of 7): The Problem
I have asked over a thousand career services professionals to tell me about the problems we face on a regular basis in our field. Rightly so, the groans come before words, then sometimes laughter (because there are things we just can't change), but there has never once been a hesitation for people to speak freely about our challenges. I love the honestly of our colleagues, and the fact that they pursue hope in the midst of these realities. When facing the topic of how to sc
- Aug 7, 2017
Doubling Down on the Impossible
In June, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) held its annual conference in Las Vegas, NV. I saw colleagues lose $50 at the slots and others win $150 at the blackjack tables. Still others, myself included, stayed away from the casino’s flashing lights and ringing bells because we wanted to avoid losing money – and the subsequent explanation to our spouses. Recently I began reading Michael Lewis’s book, The Undoing Project, and learned about Amos Tversky
- Jul 10, 2017
Scaling Career Learning Objectives
All innovation begins with a problem. Without a problem, there is nothing to solve and therefore, nothing to innovate. Defining the precise problem to solve, however, is often the most difficult step. At TuaPath, we listened carefully to career centers all over the country and this is the precise problem we heard over and over again: Scaling career education in universities is virtually impossible with current budget and human capital restraints. Specifically, we learned that
- May 18, 2017
Values and Culture: Getting it Right is the Only Shot You Have at Innovation in Your Career Center
Every organization strives to be innovative these days – it’s become an imperative. Innovation is taught, written about in scholarly journals and lectured about. It’s on everyone’s minds. A Google search delivers nearly 50 million returns to the question “where does innovation come from?” Where, indeed; and let’s face it -- higher education is much better at teaching innovation than implementing it. The world of work has changed, and we must, in turn, change how we view our r
- Mar 29, 2017
Embedding Employability: How Academics and Career Staff can Co-Create Student Success
If you do not connect learning and practice you will be out of competition. In the age of shared value creation and networking, this holds for any organization, as it does for any individual who wants to become and remain successfully employed in today’s dynamic labour market. Working in a classical research focused, mainly public-funded, university like we have in Groningen, the Netherlands, with over 400 years of experience in academic excellence, connectivity with the real
- Feb 8, 2017
The Growth-Mindset Workplace, Part III: Purposeful Training and Development
It was August, 1995. A freshly minted college graduate, I had just accepted a job as a public-school teacher and was attending my first professional development training program the week before classes started. I sat in the auditorium with an optimistic attitude as the first workshop began, all the more so since the topic was “Leading Dynamic Classroom Discussions,” the hired speaker a noted expert on the topic. I spent the next 3 hours listening to someone lecture on how to
- Jan 23, 2017
The Tremendous Benefits of connecting Academic and Career Advising
The integration of academic and career advising services is gaining momentum across university campuses as the life-long benefits of this approach for students become increasingly clear. The National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) clearinghouse is a key resource that hosts a wealth of scholarly work on the topic, including information that addresses the need for linking these two advising models. Students often begin their college experience with the hope of attaining
- Jan 19, 2017
Tech Innovation meets Career Services
Kevin Grubb, Executive Director of the Villanova University Career Center, stopped by Handshake headquarters in San Francisco and took the time to interview co-founder and CEO, Garrett Lord. Handshake is a company dedicated to democratizing opportunities for college students and college graduates regardless of where they live or go to school. The pair discussed technology, career services, avocados and Netflix below: KEVIN: Hi, everybody. I'm sitting across from Garrett Lord
- Jan 18, 2017
Shifting from a Scarcity Mindset to an Opportunity Mindset
Many institutions have responded unproductively to economic scarcity in recent years—often by freezing in place. Institutions have reduced spending, streamlined inefficient practices and shelved futuristic plans, in effect trying to do the same work with fewer people and fewer dollars. I don’t mean to sugar coat or deny problems. The lack of investment capital or any number of other critical resources presents real and difficult challenges, leaving institutions with hard choi
- Jan 9, 2017
The Growth-Mindset Workplace, Part I: Permission to Fail
Good leaders understand the importance of causality. Great leaders understand how to influence it. To adapt a popular saying from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Shallow [leaders] believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong [leaders] believe in cause and effect.” Indeed, a deep understanding of causation proves vital to successful leadership, and those in the business world who vigorously investigate causality in a variety of relevant areas—from productivity to customer relations, to em
- Jan 4, 2017
The Event Experience
Last December my husband and I headed to a nearby city to enjoy the downtown Christkindl Market, a common holiday festival in many cities across the US. When we arrived, however, we were sorely disappointed. All that awaited us was a small smattering of vendors (that didn’t seem to align with the German craftsmanship we expected), and a cramped beer tent featuring bad music. We couldn’t tell what was where or how to find the big pretzel and hot beverage we’d been craving. We
- Dec 30, 2016
Our Massive Desire for Fresh Career Services and Innovative Leadership
'There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear...' A stimulating opening song lyric, first played 50 years ago by Buffalo Springfield and written by the great Stephen Stills. (best known from Crosby, Stills, and Nash). This song is commonly confused as an anti-war song, but in fact was written about a movement of up-and-coming innovative thinkers in 1966, who wanted their community to be unique, and saw a fresh way to stimulate the West Hollywood music, art