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Apochromatik's Holiday Guide
The holidays are here! With the combination of work parties, family activities, an expanded to do list, and all the end of the year craziness, you may not have been sitting at your desk, hitting refresh on the Apochromatik blog. We’ve rounded up some of our resources on the holidays, both articles that have quoted us as experts, and our own blog posts that can help you end December with deepened work relationships, having advanced your career, and with time and energy left for your most important relationships.
2020 Goal Achievement | VOTW 121719
Prepare for a New Decade.
Did you miss the VOTW last week?
This week’s Video of the Week is a free Live Webinar: 2020 Goal Setting: 3 Tips To Achieve Goals and Prepare for a New Decade.
7 Ways to Maintain Your Career Motivation Over the Holidays
Sometimes it seems there’s a virtual black hole between November and the end of the year that devours work productivity. This time of year is usually a chaotic rush of holiday parties, cross-country travel, and visiting friends and family, all of which can impose distractions and make it difficult to focus on day-to-day duties at work. Plus, most workplaces start to slow down over the holidays, which also can hinder career motivation. Fortunately, there are ways to avoid the void. Follow these tips to help maintain your motivation and set yourself up for success in the new year.
2020 Goal Achievement | VOTW 121019
Prepare for a New Decade.
Skip the New Year’s resolutions. Make 2020 the year you finally set and achieve goals that make a difference in your career and life. Get a jump on 2020 by joining Keith R. Sbiral for a free webinar from Apochromatik…
Holiday gifts for the office that will put you on Santa’s good list
The holidays are coming, and along with gifts for friends and family, you likely have gifts for coworkers on your list. In case you happen to have ?????? next to them on your list, here are a few guidelines to follow, and a few suggestions.
Fall Forward | VOTW 120319
Take 10 minutes and watch this video today. Figure out how you are going to fall forward. Then start to plan 2020. Your unfulfilled potential awaits you!
Gratitude | VOTW 112619
In time for Thanksgiving, this week’s Video of the Week is only three minutes long, but may just change the way you think about expressing gratitude. In her TED Talk, Dr. Laura Trice addresses the power of the magic words "thank you” and how they can deepen and repair relationships.
APOCHROMATIK’S END OF THE DECADE THANKSGIVING WEEK TO-DO LIST
Are you thinking about 2020? Are you thinking about the end of another decade?
It’s time to start thinking about this now.
How Holiday Parties Can Help You Expand Your Network
It’s holiday party time!
Whether you love everything about networking opportunities or started sweating just reading the title of this post, December can be a great time to expand and deepen your network. Here are some tips to do just that (and avoid the alternative scenarios that are the stuff of office gossip everywhere). This topic is so important and so fraught with peril that has been addressed by numerous people over the years. No one blog post can fully exhaust it, but our goal is to get you ready in 1,400 words or less.
How can a mastermind help you transform your career in 2020? | VOTW 111919
For this week’s Video of the Week, we’re featuring an episode of the Hustle & Flow podcast hosted by Heather Hubbard. This particular episode discusses masterminds: what they are, and why attorneys and other professionals can benefit. If you haven’t joined a mastermind this is your chance to learn what they are all about.
There are only 48 days left in this decade!
There are only 48 days left in this decade!
Finding time to attack our goals can be difficult because there are literally dozens of competing interests vying for our limited time and attention, but we encourage you to seize the chance to make the remainder of this decade a productive time.
Apochromatik Book Bundle 5: Negotiation
Today we are releasing Apochromatik’s fifth book bundle, and it is on the topic of negotiation.
First, the disclaimers: These are books we’ve read recently; this isn’t a “best of negotiation” book list.
Apochromatik Book Bundle 4: Career Planning
Today we discuss Career Planning.
You receive so much advice and so many directives from multiple sources on the proper way to plan your career. It is easy to wonder if it is even possible to plan your career. That is where many people push the things you need to do to the back burner, or worse yet give up on planning altogether.
University of Chicago Career Webinar...TODAY! | VOTW 111219
Does the thought of answering the question “where do you see yourself in five years?” in a job interview make you want to melt into the floor?
Leslie Knope Likes Masterminds*
*OK, so maybe I’ve never had a direct conversation with TV character Leslie Knope of “Parks and Recreation." Or with Amy Poehler. But I’m pretty sure if I could, they’d both be in favor of masterminds. And, as we know, waffles.
Time to Get Going... | VOTW 110519
Every triumph has to begin somewhere. As we look forward to the new decade and working with our Future in Focus 2020 Mastermind groups, we’ve been reminded of some of the humble beginnings in some of our favorite books, movies, and TV shows.
Second to last month of...the decade!
The end of one month and beginning of the next is the perfect time to look ahead and reset where you are and where you’re going. It’s less intimidating and overwhelming than the beginning of a new year, and much more manageable to think about how you’ll use the next month to have more of the things you want in your career and life, and less of the things you don’t. And, as we enter one of the last two months of the decade, now is a great time to follow these six steps to set yourself up for a great month.
How do you start your iconic run? | VOTW 102919
You know how it ends, but do you remember how Rocky’s training started? It wasn’t with the iconic run through the streets of Philadelphia and bounding up the art museum stairs with arms held high and plenty of energy. It started with a slow slog long before the city was awake, stumbling up the stairs with a side stitch.