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People + Tasks + Mission + (The Basics) = Love Your Job by Elia Sheldon

There’s lots of advice out there about how to find a job that you love.  To be clear, I’m not talking about a fantasy job.  Let’s get real people.  You have to work with what you’ve got from a skills perspective combined with many multi-related events and activities converging together to establish what is actually [...]

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Three Important Coaching Relationships by Elia Sheldon

Three Important Coaching Relationships by Elia Sheldon

The only sport I played growing up was piano. I learned a great deal from my piano teachers. But because I missed out on more traditional sports (for many reasons, which I won’t bore you with today), I never had the opportunity to experience coaching until I entered the workforce after college graduation. My first [...]

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Administrative Professional’s Day

Today is Administrative Professional’s Day. If you work in a role related to administration in any office, we know that you often wear a dozen hats in your organization. For those of you working in other professional capacities, your work is often enhanced by working with an administrative professional in your office. Even those of [...]

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Not Another Annoying Presentation by Elia Sheldon

Not Another Annoying Presentation by Elia Sheldon

It usually happens after lunch, which makes it even more difficult to bear because I’m already fighting off a post-lunch food coma. The lights are dimmed. The iPhone is silenced. A microphone is tapped in the front of the room. The speaker is introduced. By about five slides in (usually less), I can tell that [...]

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iPhone Apps for the Busy Womanby Elia Sheldon

iPhone Apps for the Busy Womanby Elia Sheldon

Here are my recommendations for iPhone apps, gleaned from my experience as a woman who has a lot to balance: work, home, family, friends, and everything else. I’ve categorized them into two groups: business and leisure. Please feel free to respond with your favorites; I’m always on the lookout for more iPhone apps that can [...]

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Don’t Mess with the Admin Mafia by Elia Sheldon

Don’t Mess with the Admin Mafia by Elia Sheldon

The first lesson of great importance that I learned in my professional career was from a partner at Price Waterhouse (prior to the merge with Coopers and Lybrand) during the first week of orientation for me and thirty of my peers who were kicking off our training to become technology consultants. He said that we [...]

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Hassle Lite Business Travel by Elia Sheldon

Hassle Lite Business Travel by Elia Sheldon

To the uninitiated, business travel evokes scenes of luxury hotels, generous expense accounts, and the opportunity to explore a new city on the company tab. But the reality of it is that you’re limited by your company’s expense policy as to where you may stay and how much you spend on meals. You’re also usually [...]

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Sound Advice: Accept Help Graciously

Sound Advice: Accept Help Graciously

I was deplaning (I didn’t think it was a word, but it really is) and it was my turn to unload my carry-on from the overhead bin.  A man next to me hoisted it down.  I smiled and said, “Thank you.” I really meant it.  Ten years ago, I would have been irritated that anyone [...]

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Women in Business:  An Introduction by Elia Sheldon

Women in Business: An Introduction by Elia Sheldon

Two months before marrying the man of my dreams, I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. We’d just moved from Manhattan to the Boston area and I’d decided to use that opportunity to change careers. By my fourth day in my new job as a technical recruiter, it was clear that I wasn’t going [...]

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