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The Cross-Generational Challenge: How Teams Can Unlock Their Hidden Potential in a Five Generation Workplace
“If they want their job, they better get themselves back in the office. The office is where work gets done and if they aren’t here, they aren’t getting work done.” These were the first words from an octogenarian senior law firm partner in response to our recent question, “How do you feel your firm will respond to the desire for a hybrid work model?” Ironically, the conversation eventually moved to the current difficulty in hiring.
Apochromatik's Holiday Guide
The holidays are here! With the combination of work parties, family activities, an expanded to do list, and all the end of the year craziness, you may not have been sitting at your desk, hitting refresh on the Apochromatik blog. We’ve rounded up some of our resources on the holidays, both articles that have quoted us as experts, and our own blog posts that can help you end December with deepened work relationships, having advanced your career, and with time and energy left for your most important relationships.
2021 Holiday Gifts for the Office
The holidays are coming, and along with gifts for friends and family, you likely have gifts for coworkers on your list. In case you happen to have “?” next to them on your list, here are a few guidelines to follow, and a few suggestions.virtual. Many people will still send gifts and we want to help you pick the most appropriate ones…even this year.
ApochroMinute: What happens when you don't ask?
This week's ApochroMinute features career advice legal recruiter Carolyn Aberman recently shared with members of the Future in Focus 2021 attorney mastermind. Check it out, and accept our ask by joining the upcoming Legal Career Roundtable. Find all the details at futureinfocus2022.com/roundtable.
Is your annual review approaching?
Performance reviews are just around the corner in many firms and organizations. We often hear that people are “too busy” to prepare for their review. That’s like saying “I was so busy packing for vacation that I didn’t have time to book a plane ticket.” Your review may be the one time all year when you and your boss both carve out time to sit and talk about your career.
ApochroMinute: How To Prepare For Your Annual Review
Avoid 2 common mistakes when preparing for your annual review. Check out this week’s ApochroMinute.
ApochroMinute 70: Network Now
Sick of Zoom happy hours?
We get it.
This week’s ApochroMinute discusses networking on Zoom and invites you tan APO-versary celebration.
Presence: A key element of leadership
When you think of leadership skills, executive presence may not be the first thing that comes to mind.
ApochroMinute 68: First Impressions (Copy)
Working from a couch with chaos all around you? We’ve been there.
In this week’s ApochroMinute, from a couch in the midst of chaos, Keith shares 3 tips to enhance your executive presence on Zoom.
Happy 5th APO-versary!
We hope you are enjoying these final days of summer. We’ve had a busy summer helping coaching clients take advantage of the job market to advance or transition, and working with teams to rebuild the trust, communication, and effectiveness that has been challenged by the last 18 months.
ApochroMinute 68: First Impressions
You’ve been told you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Right now might be an exception.
How To Know It's Time To Go
More evidence amasses each day that experiences, not things, are what bring people happiness. In my own life, I can say that I've had more recurring positive feelings remembering past trips I've taken than enjoying any item I've ever purchased. Being that an average person will spend around 90,000 hours, or 1/3 of a lifetime, at work, it behooves us to pursue careers that provide meaningful experiences in addition to a solid income. For those considering a career change to find more fulfillment, I've compiled a list of questions to ask yourself to sort out whether it's time for you to take the leap.
Strategies for Successfully Working From Home
After the last 18 months, many of our work from home practices could use some fine tuning, particularly if you plan to work from home at least part-time for the foreseeable future. Otherwise, work can easily invade your entire home and every waking moment. Likewise, it can be easy to keep up bad habits that can leave you feeling inefficient and ineffective. In this week’s post, Chelsea B. Ashworth shares some reminders and suggestions for working from home effectively and efficiently.
ApochroMinute 67: School Year
In this week’s ApochroMinute, we encouraged you to pause, reflect on the last few months, and consider what you want to do with the 1/3 of 2020 that remains. To get you started, here are some questions to spur your reflection. We hope you’ll do more than just reflect, though. We hope you’ll use these a few or all of these questions to launch your forward progress.
Leveraging Habits To Change Your Life - Part Two
According to Clear, the most proven scientific analysis of personality traits (as of the time his book was published) is "The Big Five," which is an inventory of five principle traits. Clear describes the traits as: 1) Openness to Experience (curious and inventive versus cautious and consistent), 2) Conscientiousness (organized and efficient versus easygoing and spontaneous), 3) Extraversion (outgoing and energetic extraversion versus solitary and reserved introversion), 4) Agreeableness (friendly and compassionate versus challenging and detached), and 5) Neuroticism (anxious and sensitive versus calm and stable).
ApochroMinute 66: Focus
Can you believe we are almost half way through the year?
When you have big goals, progress can feel insurmountable.
That’s why this week we invite you to take one minute to watch the power of Niagara Falls eroding away the rock below. Progress doesn’t happen over night; it’s the result of small steps (or drops of water) over time.
Then go to www.aposignup.com/goals and join us to commit (or recommit) to your goals for the second half of 2021.
Leveraging Habits To Change Your Life - Part One
James Clear has a passion for self-improvement and optimization via habit engineering. I recently listened to his book Atomic Habits on Audible and I was spellbound. I wrote so many notes that I'm actually going to divide this article into two parts. In Part One, I want to share Clear's four laws of habit building, which he believes are key to making change.
ApochroMinute 65: Distraction
If you’re overwhelmed by a constant barrage of notifications, this week’s ApochroMinute is for you.
ApochroMinute 64: Summer Goals
This week’s ApochroMinute features summer advice from Calvin and Hobbes.