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Right Person, Wrong Seat

Inertia on the Field: Practice, Progress, and Growth

If It’s Not the Job, It Might Be You

Busy But Bored: The Ultimate Conundrum

Coaching Your Weakest Team Member

We’ve all heard these sayings: the bad apple, the weakest link in the chain, the black sheep in the family. Do these simple phrases define a person and give no room for improvement? When dealing with a member of your team who is not measuring up to your or your team’s standards, what can you […]

Take Your Cue from the Comment Cards

In my very first Reman U article 5 years ago I shared a tale of my time in college working at a movie theatre. I did more than just sell nachos at that job, I also learned a few things! One day I came into work to find one of our assistant managers uninstalling the […]

When Home is Work and Work is Home

With the business world moving from office to home, more people are now trying to figure out how to balance work life from home life while being in the same place. When I first heard that we were moving to an all remote workforce due to the pandemic, I was ecstatic: no more waking up […]

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

You can’t always get what you want. I learned this life lesson as a child, partly from my parents and partly from The Rolling Stones. It holds true today, especially as we venture through this crazy year. I want to go to Disney. I want to see my friends and my family. I want to […]

What’s Your Pumpkin Spice Latte?

Fall is making herself known already this year. Parents around the country are doing some version of back to school, here in Milwaukee it’s sweatshirt weather, and on a walk with my son, he picked up the first red leaf – and to cap it all off, my husband, at the end of this same […]

This Must Be the Mise En Place

I’ve moved recently from a two-bedroom apartment to a large open loft and to say that the place is a mess is a bit of an understatement. My partner and I emptied all the cardboard boxes, and we decided the mantra for the house the next couple of weeks is “Make it work.” All that […]

Making a T and Checking it Twice

For most of us, making major decisions is difficult. It’s supposed to be that way, otherwise we’d all be running around recklessly, and the world would be an even crazier place! It does appear that for some making big changes is an easier, more comfortable, confident and success-inducing process. So, what’s our secret? Is it […]

When People Move On

No matter how great the workplace, how great the coworkers, it’s a natural part of work-life for people to move on. Whether they upgraded positions, decided to do something new, or just needed a change, people leave. And sometimes they leave people behind. I’ve left places before, left colleagues and work friends and family. It’s […]

Lessons of the Road

I recently returned home from a three-week family road trip. This was mostly a vacation but not entirely. Since I have been working from home since March, working from the road was fairly feasible. I coordinated to work about one third to one half time and take the appropriate amount of PTO to cover the […]

Take Ownership

My friend Liz measured my height and waist last month at a party. It wasn’t just me it was all of us: Meg, Chad, Chuppa, Zack, Daley, we all got measured by this petite 5 ft woman and a measuring tape and charted everyone’s numbers on a chalkboard in her kitchen. For those of you […]