Managing Interns: Tips and Advice

I saw a set of questions on Focus.com about how to manage and mentor marketing interns.  As I used to manage and mentor lots of consultants including interns when I worked for Deloitte, I wanted to share my 2 cents.   The questions didn’t specify whether these were high school, college, or MBA interns, so [...]

How to Improve Your Soft Skills?

How to improve your soft skills is an important question to answer for your career success.  It is also a tough question to answer in general as soft skills encompass many different skills in two general categories. self management skills– those we use to manage our emotions, self-perception, and reactions to unexpected situations. Examples of [...]

What are Soft Skills?

I must admit I had no idea what are soft skills when I graduated from college.   I quickly realized on my first job at McKinsey how my lack of some soft skills were affecting my performance reviews.  Here are some of the soft skills I lacked at that time. Stress Management and People Management Skills [...]

Forgive and Forget – Key to Career Success

I had a real scare yesterday.  My 3 year old daughter, Isabel, lost her balance and fell from 8-feet-high rope ladder head first.  I was a few steps away, screamed, but couldn’t reach her in time.  She hit the dirt on the side of her head and right cheek.  Luckily, her head does not seem [...]