by lewsauder | Oct 16, 2017 | Career Management, Communication, Personal Branding
I remember the performance evaluation I received after the first year of my career. My boss was a great guy. I liked him personally. But he was a bit non-confrontational. The review was outstanding. Anyone reading it who didn’t know me would think I was going to be...
by lewsauder | Sep 29, 2017 | Career Management, Communication
Most of us get more emails in a day than we would like to admit. Most of us have at least two email accounts: work and personal. As a consultant, I have an account for my firm, my client, and two personal accounts. I have a daily routine of going through and killing...
by lewsauder | Aug 18, 2017 | Career Management, Client relations, Communication
We live in divided times today. And as much as we want to complain about it, it is nothing new. Abraham Lincoln famously said “a house divided cannot stand.” There are many examples of major disagreements throughout history. We humans can be a disagreeable group of...
by lewsauder | Aug 4, 2017 | Career Management, Client relations, Communication, Personal Branding
Our current president has been given the opportunity of doing something that many new presidents do. With his party holding a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, he has leverage. This gives him the ability to push legislation through congress...
by lewsauder | Jul 21, 2017 | Client relations, Communication
I’ve heard people – mostly clients – that joke about the fact that you have officially made it as a consultant when you learn that the answer to everything is It depends. There is a lot of truth to that. It’s not a matter of being evasive. And it’s usually not a...
by lewsauder | Jul 7, 2017 | Career Management, Communication
I can’t remember whether it was on Facebook or Twitter that I saw it. It doesn’t matter. It was just another post slamming the millennial generation. They’re so full of themselves. They’re always staring into their phones. They have such a sense of entitlement. Some...
