by Day Merrill | Oct 19, 2021 | Career Exploration, Coaching, Individuals, Job Search
This photo depicts the sum total of my vegetable gardening efforts for this year. A solitary tomato (there were a few others, but the squirrels beat me to them) and an unruly bunch of Brillo-tough parsley–that’s it. Sigh. Every spring, I have such grand plans for the...
by Day Merrill | Sep 17, 2021 | Strategic Career Management
To say that these are tumultuous times is an understatement. Since March of 2020, we’ve been sent home to work, locked down/opened up/locked down again, furloughed and recalled, let go, rehired and more. We’ve seen the Great Retirement of Boomers, the Great...
by Day Merrill | May 27, 2020 | Strategic Career Management
We are living in and through challenging and unprecedented times. The global Covid-19 pandemic has not only impacted each of us personally, it has and will continue to change our relationship to work‒clearly for the short term and most probably for the foreseeable...
by Day Merrill | Aug 15, 2019 | Coaching
When my daughters were old enough to understand what I did for a living, they sat me down one day for a talking to. Indignantly, they noted, “Your job is a racket! You ask people nosy questions and then tell them what they should do. You do that ANYWAY!.” My reply?...
by Day Merrill | Aug 15, 2019 | Performance & Development
I was asked to speak at a pre-shut down International Women’s Day event on the topic of “soft skills.” This was gratifying, as I can recall a time when soft skills that occurred “naturally” were thought to be the only skills women had! Even though the range of “hard...
