Learning comes in all forms. It’s your decision how you apply the learnings and still stay true to yourself My first assignment in my newly acquired Supply Chain Trainee position consisted of me leaving my hometown state, moving somewhere I knew no one, living alone,...
Choices can take you many places in life. You don’t always have to know the end destination, just be confident that your choices could lead you down the path less followed. When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up my answers consisted of a farmer (so I’m told)...
Set your boundaries. After I had cycled through most of the HR functions, I finally got the opportunity to go to the department which was aptly named to match the major I had chosen or had been chosen for me (semantics). I had loved HR as a “people person” and now was...
Things don’t always go as you envisioned but staying true to your values can help you navigate these experiences. My third assignment in HR was to be a negotiations coordinator…which is a glorified term for gopher, I do believe. Our contract was expiring, and I...
Not all assignments are glamorous but all can provide valuable learnings. I was 17 years old on my first day at the auto assembly plant. My first assignment was in the Suggestions Department. My orientation was a little less formal than the orientation I have given...
Some times we find ourselves on paths that we didn’t know existed. The thing to remember is stay open to all possibilities because you never know where they may lead. Any of you that have ever heard me speak have heard me say that my dream job would be to run...
