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That’s what layoffs feel like—cold, numbing and isolating. Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. UPS 48,000 this year. Intel has been "restructuring" for over a year.  Accenture just added 50,000 to that number.  . When someone loses their job, as a colleague or friend, we often rush to fix it. We send job postings. We say, *"Everything happens for a reason."* We talk about "silver linings" or "opportunity for growth." And we need to stop doing that.  As an HR professional

Do you have a pen and paper handy? You might need it when you ... take your friend to a doctor's appointment! Act of Love #15 If your...

Today marks 16 years since Art died.    When he died, the world didn't stop. I didn't expect it to, but I wished it, I begged it to, for...

When someone on your team experiences a death — a colleague, a loved one, or even a client — everything changes. But most leaders and HR...

The recent wildfires have devastated communities. The aftereffects of the fires are not just about the immediate physical destruction but...

When a beloved colleague dies, the impact reverberates across the workplace in profound and, sadly, often unexpected ways. Grief in the...

I was at Trader Joe's on Saturday, buying food for the meal I would make for the Death and Dying Dinner Party I was hosting that night....

Last Wednesday, I celebrated a milestone birthday. I've been lucky enough to work for companies where birthdays are a big deal! It's nice...

As a leader, making mistakes is part of the job.   And like mistakes in general, some mistakes are more costly than others.   ...

Not knowing what to say to a grieving friend, colleague, or team member can knock even the most confident person's confidence. There are...

This box. Big gifts can come in small, thoughtful, hand-folded packages. Eleven days after Art died, one of his students sent this to me....

My husband and I were living in Vegas. We had just had our second child. A fender bender months earlier caused him to pass out when he...

Gratitude lists. Do you do them? Do you try to do them? Every day, I write ten things I am grateful for in a gratitude notebook....

I’m gonna start this year off by being the idiot. Why? Because Unemployment is at an all-time low. (Finding a replacement is no longer...

My cousin owns a 90-acre ranch in Amador County. Our family has been going there for 20 years. (Since Ezra was 1.) Some of Art's ashes...

Holiday Party 2015 Let's NOT Talk About Grief: Conversation Starters for The Awkward As an extrovert ( a person who gets her energy from...

#TuesdayTipDay Does anyone else feel like Halloween was only two weeks ago?🙄 Since the holiday season is upon us, Act of Love #69 is all...

Today marks 365 days since I had knee replacement surgery! And as I sat down to write something about it, I realized I had learned a few...

How to be a Human Being Not A Human Doing Today is Tuesday Tip Day! And I'm going to share with you how to be a human BEING instead of a...

Today is day two of National Grief Awareness Week! (Again, I really like National Grief Awkwardness Week!) And I want to share a personal...

National Grief Awkwardness Week starts… Wait, I mean, National Grief Awareness Week starts today. Grief is awkward for the griever AND...

A person at a party asked, "What's the point of planning for the death of an employee?" I get this question quite a bit. Leaders and HR...

I've been using ChatGPT quite a bit. ChatGPT is a viral AI language tool for its human-like conversations and more. I used it to turn a...

Hello, Dear Readers! And welcome to another Tuesday Tip Day! Today, we delve into Act of Love #24 from the book "100 Acts of Love: A...