Category: learning
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Ready for a Promotion? Why You Must Prepare for the Next Career Level
Ready to level up in your career? Are you truly prepared for career advancement? In this short vlog, we explore why you need to take steps to be ready for your next promotion. It’s not just about getting the role; it’s about being equipped to succeed. Are you taking the right steps to advance in…
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Maximize Your Career Potential: How Every Experience Shapes Your Progress towards Success
For today’s professionals, leaders and entrepreneurs, evaluating your past experiences can be the key to future success. Whether you’re advancing in your career, navigating a transition or expanding a business, your experiences—both professional and personal—hold significant value, if you take the time to learn from them. Here’s why it’s essential to take inventory of everything…
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Break Free from Your Comfort Zone: How to Achieve Your Next Level of Growth
Growth is a journey we all strive for, whether in our personal lives or careers. But how do we truly step up our game and reach those next-level aspirations? One of my favorite quotes from John Maxwell perfectly sums it up: “There’s no growth in the comfort zone, and there’s no comfort in the growth…
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International Stress Awareness Day
International Stress Awareness Day was earlier this week. Let’s be intentional about managing stress effectively to maintain our total well-being. Consider the steps you can take daily as well as seasons of high intensity. Some of the things that have helped me with stress management include: In our personal lives, let’s make time for activities…
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Overcoming Adversity
Careers, life and leadership come with periods of triumphs and trials. As a mentor and a people manager, I help professionals navigate difficult seasons by demonstrating empathy and providing techniques or tools to move forward. As a change management practitioner, I am aware that some changes result in grief, loss and anxiety for some persons…
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Intercultural communication is not translation
“Intercultural communication is more than translation.” Michelle Gibson-Morgan I find that recently I have repeated that sentence in several contexts. I infer that persons are not aware that a nuanced understanding of the values and worldviews of individuals and communities influence how your messaging is perceived. Above all, respect is conveyed in different ways and…
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Are you culturally competent?
Cultural competence is my favourite area of diversity, equity and inclusion! I enjoy helping people to learn more about cultural competence, the benefits of valuing differences, leveraging cultural diversity and its relationship to effective talent management practices. In addition to #training folks on cultural competence, I enjoy debriefing assessment results and #coaching professionals or leaders to improve…
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If not now, then when?
Reflecting on time, purpose and impact. If not now, then when? When will you… Take that bold step? Value yourself and love yourself? Face your fear? Embrace who God called you to be? Complete that educational program or personal project you started? Put away the excuses? Start that business or non-profit? Write that book? Publish…
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It’s May 25. How can we thrive 365?
Continuing the themes of #Black365 and #FebruaryandForever, I share this reminder that an intersectional lens in the development of talent management and wellness programs will enable your organization to better support and develop your Black employees. This includes, but is not limited to, your high potential programs and your mental well-being initiatives. Let’s consider this…
Michelle Gibson-Morgan. Lead. Learn. Change. Thrive. 