Last week, I sent out an invitation to every full-time employee at Collegewise to participate in an experiment: The Talent Tour of Duty. Our Talent Department is responsible for finding new Wisers to join us, for onboarding and training them, and for helping everyone at Collegewise be successful and engaged. The Tour of Duty is […]
Read More >Saying goodbye to a leadership giant
Herb Kelleher, the founder and past CEO of Southwest Airlines, passed away this week at 87. I was 22 and in my first job out of college when I became aware of him via the book Nuts!: Southwest Airlines’ Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success. His approach to business—stand for something, treat your employees well, […]
Read More >The best productivity hack?
If you’ve made any resolutions in the vein of getting more done in 2019, don’t skip what could be the world’s best productivity hack: saying no. We all have obligations that are just part of school, work, or life, things we don’t have the option of turning away. But just about everything else is a […]
Read More >For families with 529 plans
Parents who’ve dutifully saved in a 529 plan may have seen their balances dip (perhaps alarmingly so) during the recent stock market roller coaster. While many experts recommend you continue investing and wait to withdraw until the market rebounds, what if you have a tuition bill due soon? While there’s no prescription for a miracle […]
Read More >Collegewise is hiring nationwide!
Collegewise is looking for the next batch of smart, passionate, interesting people to join our team. Do you want your work to feel like a calling where you make a difference every day? Would you like to help more families benefit from a service that helps students achieve their educational goals? Are you looking for […]
Read More >Four steps to raising adults
Just in time to start the new year, Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, offers this section on her website summing up her four most important tips.
Read More >How to get your resolutions right
If you’re making New Year’s resolutions this year, here are a few links I’ve shared in the past, plus a new addition, to help you make and keep resolutions that work for you. Chip and Dean Heath (who teach at Stanford and Duke respectively) offer “4 Research-Backed Tips for Sticking to Your New Years Resolutions.” […]
Read More >Put some teaching into your studying
Studies have shown teaching material is the best way to learn it, a process I’ve written about before. The act of clearly explaining something, even to an imaginary student, engages a different part of your brain than just absorbing the material. And here’s some more science, a meta-analysis of 64 studies involving 6,000 students, all showing […]
Read More >On learning by doing
Authors Seth Godin and Simon Sinek hosted a Facebook Live chat recently in which they were asked the question, “What qualities are missing from today’s college graduates going into marketing [as a career]?” I loved Seth’s response: “You know how you learn marketing? By doing marketing. You don’t learn marketing by getting an internship, you […]
Read More >Overly involved parents
Madeline Levine of Challenge Success offers up this one-minute video with a quick-and-easy test to spot when parents are getting overly involved in kids’ lives.
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