Last April I wrote about ways to make oneself more impervious to incivility in the workplace, but there are times when incivility needs to be directly confronted. How we go… read more →
Each summer begins the same way, with the beguiling promise of long open days for scholarship interspersed with extra time to spend out-of-doors with family and friends. But by the… read more →
You’ve just gotten back from your vacation and there are piles of laundry to do, hundreds of emails to process, and your garden is overgrown, so your writing goes to… read more →
What do you do when you find your energy lagging at work? If you’re like most of us, you reach for a snack or a cup of coffee, check your… read more →
Managing Incivility in the Workplace This Friday I spoke to two different people whose peace of mind, focus, and productivity were seriously impaired following incidents of incivility by a departmental colleague.… read more →
Since the vast majority of our correspondence and many of our work tasks arrive in the form of email, it cannot be ignored. And yet academics often fall into the… read more →
Almost every week several clients tell me what a hard time they have getting started on writing, how overwhelmed they feel when they face their writing time, or how easily… read more →
I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions – if you want to start exercising or develop better writing habits, you can start today, right now, rather than waiting until tomorrow,… read more →
When professors have conference deadlines or other due dates that fall in early January, they often want me to help them with how to strike the right balance of work,… read more →
I often hear from academics who are frustrated because they think they need large blocks of time to move writing projects forward, and during busy teaching semesters large blocks of… read more →