John M. O'Connor (Career Pro Inc.) is a multi-year career coach, outplacement and career services leader based in North Carolina. When the job market turns into more of an employee's market, shortcuts ...

As a manager, employee performance and coaching conversations can be scary. In addition to providing constructive criticism and feedback (which is tough enough), you must also be prepared to provide ...

In today’s workplace, leaders are being asked to support employee well-being on top of doing more with less. The tension between performance and people is real, and many organizations are feeling the ...

We live in a society obsessed with performance. For both young and old, competitions, awards and rankings are an inescapable feature of life. How well we do – in the classroom, at work, on the sports ...