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Professional Ghosting

Time to Turn the Tables on Professional Ghosting

Fun, Human Resources, Interviewing, Seriously FunnyBy Jeff HavensOctober 1, 2019Leave a comment

In honor of this being the month of Halloween, we are going to discuss how to handle ghosts. Not the spooky, incorporeal kind – the best way to handle that kind is by screaming and running away, unless of course you have a plasma cannon calibrated for the proper ectoplasmic frequency, and I’m guessing you…

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Jeff Havens Vision Article

The Simple Difference Between Effective and Ineffective Visions

Business, Careers, Critical Thinking, LeadershipBy Jeff HavensSeptember 3, 20192 Comments

One of the most important skills a leader needs to develop is the ability to articulate a vision that employees can attach to and rally around. (Indeed, the word ‘vision’ is such a common part of leadership education that I wouldn’t be surprised if you occasionally have visions about creating a vision.) Having a strong…

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Jeff Havens Networking Ideas

Interested in Meeting New People? Give These Ideas a Try!

Networking, Seriously FunnyBy Jeff HavensSeptember 3, 2019Leave a comment

Meeting new people is a pain. Not that new people are inherently annoying (although some of them are), but figuring out how to meet them is exhausting. Of course you’re interesting and fun and charismatic and you smell great too, and if you could just start in the middle of the relationship, everyone would realize…

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What to work on when business is slow

What To Work On When Business Is Slow

Business, Careers, entrepreneurship, Motivation, Professional DevelopmentBy Jeff HavensAugust 5, 20191 Comment

Every summer I completely understand why tropical countries tend to move at a slower pace than ones further from the equator. Of course the Vikings went on raiding expeditions – what else were they going to do during nine months of Nordic winters? I live in Michigan, where we only get six months of decent…

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Personality Assessment Article from Jeff Havens

Maybe I Trusted My Personality Assessment Too Much

Seriously FunnyBy Jeff HavensAugust 5, 20191 Comment

I just got the results back from my first personality assessment, and guess what? I’m Intuitive! I’m also a Planner, and I’m Conflict Averse. I knew that last one, ever since my MMA career ended before I ever began training for it, but it was a surprise to learn that I like having things organized…

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The Paradox of Freedom Article

The Paradox of Freedom

Change Management, Decision Making, Employee Engagement, Work Life BalanceBy Jeff HavensJuly 10, 20197 Comments

When I was a high school teacher, I had a 15-year-old Kurdish student in my 9th-grade English class. He was a terrible student, constantly disrespectful and disruptive, completely uninterested in learning, and a huge challenge to my newly-minted teacher self. I spent far too much time trying to stop him from derailing my entire class,…

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Perks

Look At All The Perks I Have!

Seriously FunnyBy Jeff HavensJuly 10, 20192 Comments

Tech companies get a lot of attention for offering some crazy awesome perks to their employees. Google has on-site masseuses, and Epic Health Systems has a building with a three-story slide in it and another one designed to look like a Dungeons & Dragons game. In fact, these types of perks have gotten so much…

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The Value of Not Working

The Value of Not Working

NetworkingBy Jeff HavensJune 3, 2019Leave a comment

In my Uncrapify Your Future! keynote, I talk about one of the biggest paradoxes of modern work – namely, that productivity doesn’t always look productive. We are accustomed to valuing things we can see, like typing on a computer or turning a wrench, and so we are often far less impressed by things that don’t…

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What Following My Passion Got Me

Where “Following My Passion” Got Me

Seriously FunnyBy Jeff HavensJune 3, 20191 Comment

By now I’m sure you’ve had somebody tell you to follow your passion. There are entire TED talks, by (inexplicably) respected speakers, telling people that the secret to life is to find what makes you happy and then build everything else around that. They say it blithely, like it’s the easiest thing in the world.…

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Thanks to the Doctors That Saved My Daughters Life

A Thank You to the Doctors Who Saved My Daughter’s Life

GratitudeBy Jeff HavensMay 6, 201969 Comments

I ordinarily don’t write much about my personal life in my newsletters. My job is to talk about business growth – and while there are plenty of parallels between what we do at work and what we do at home, I prefer to keep personal examples to a minimum because everyone’s experience is unique, and…

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