Career Success

It takes a village to build a successful career. By Maggie McMullen and Erik Burns As has been suggested before, mentoring is a key function within a successful career. Mentors provide feedback, guidance, direction, and fill an overall role of support, ...

By Maggie Mullen and Erik Burns In Part 2 of the Crucial Conversations series, we learned the about the two key ingredients for creating safety in a conversation: Mutual Purpose Mutual Respect Read the May 2018 article to dive deeper into ...

By Maggie Mullen and Erik Burns In Part 1 of the Crucial Conversations series, we learned about three types of communicating: digressing into threats and name-calling (violence), reverting to silent fuming (silence), and speaking openly, ...

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” —George Bernard Shaw Communication is a common challenge we all face both personally and professionally, especially when working within today’s technology-rich world. ...

What drives your ethical behavior in the workplace? By Maggie McMullen and Erik Burns, MA, MBA, EdD “Protected Values” are “where you are willing to pay the price to uphold the value...to withstand the temptation to give-in,” says economist Alexander ...