Is Career Coaching Worth the Cost?
Professional coaches can help you take your career to the next level, break into a new field or launch a business.
How to Create a Killer Resume
New year, new resume? If you’re thinking about sharpening (or creating!) your resume, you probably have questions about format and what to put down during the years you took off to raise children.
Letter to Our Daughters
To Our Daughters, You are empowered like no other generation of women in history.
Mean Girls at Work and in the 'Hood
If you’re working in a professional environment or as a volunteer, the last thing you need is to be confronted by that person who makes you feel about two inches tall. Didn’t we graduate from high school already? Working with or for “mean girls” shouldn’t be intimidating. Authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster offer tips […]
Time for You to go Back to School
]With the kids back in school, there’s no better time to act on your resolutions—like “What do I want to do when I grow up?”
Negotiating Tips for Work and Home
We all need what Vicki Medvec has got—a better way to negotiate what we want while making the other person feel good about giving it to us.
Makeover 2012: Career
It’s easy to dismiss what we get paid to do as “just a job,” but as Michelle Brod, who lives in Hanover Park, has learned, what you do—even part-time—influences how you feel in so many other areas.
Get Back To The Girl You Used to Know
I have more than 30 parenting books sitting on my shelves at home. Nary a one on self-improvement. This is not because I think I am perfect—far from it. I just never have the time to focus on me. When I learned of the e-book release of life coach Marla Majewski’s “The Girl I Used […]
How to Get a Flexible Work Schedule
How many times have you sat in rush hour traffic cursing your 9-to-5 schedule?
Women CEOS of the North Shore and Beyond: Desirée Rogers
We all know the North Shore, like its neighbor Chicago, is full of exceptional women.
