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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, from apPROach Consulting! The new year always feels special to me, and it was extra special this year since we started the first week of the new year with a new moon. The new moon is a time for setting intentions - it’s a time for new beginnings and...
Make Your Vision a Reality
This workshop is a super-charged combination of Merchon’s visioning and accountability work, and my strategic planning and project management techniques. If you’re ready to make things happen this summer, this workshop is for you!
Happy New Year!
A Strategic Planner's Reflections on 2020 Even before I became a professional planner and project manager, I loved New Year's Eve. It is the idea of a fresh start, the turning of the page on the calendar, and all of the possibilities that come with a new year. You...
The Remote Job Search
Advice From an Employer for Remote Candidates At the start of the global pandemic, I wrote two posts about how to shift from working in a traditional office setting to a remote workplace. Perhaps you had the opportunity to make that shift and now you're interested in...
Working Remotely: Employer Edition
Tips and tricks for managing a remote workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, following a series of health department recommendations and in some counties, mandates, many employers are shifting to a remote workspace. For managers, the personal transition...
Working Remotely
Tips and tricks for employees transitioning to a home office during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have worked remotely in part-time and full-time roles for more than five years now. I remember my first completely remote gig, working for a consulting firm headquartered in...
Multi-Level Marketing: Everything I Wanted to Know but Hadn’t Asked
As a woman in my thirties, it's tough to escape messages from multilevel marketing (MLM) business owners. The products vary but I've been curious about the strategies and processes behind these network marketing businesses. Last year, I made a connection with a...
Better than a New Year’s Resolution
What is Strategic Planning? Businesses have traditionally embraced strategic planning processes as annual activities to set their teams on a path for success and ensure short term activities align with long term goals. Strategic planning projects typically take into...
The Power of Propelling Yourself Forward
Whether You're Running a Race or Managing a Project, Just Keep Moving! Runner’s Ruminations is my collection of thoughts and ideas that I’ve processed while running. Sometimes these things come to me out of nowhere once I hit the trail, other times I actively go...
The View from the Shoulder (of the road and the organization)
How to Influence Decision Making From the "D Suite" or VP Office Runner's Ruminations is my collection of thoughts and ideas that I've processed while running. Sometimes these things come to me out of nowhere once I hit the trail, other times I actively go running in...