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Returning to Roots: Career Development Foundations
Most career development professionals studied the writings of Holland, Super, and other ground-breaking theorists at some point in their...
Jul 15, 20242 min read
Obstacles: Real and Perceived
Making a decision regarding one’s career involves much more than just black and white answers to questions. Facing both real and...
Mar 18, 20243 min read
No Surprise! Nothing New Here to Read
It is probably not a good way to start a newsletter by stating there is nothing new here. It doesn’t actually encourage you to read it!...
Jan 15, 20243 min read
New Year, New Job Goal? Considerations to Make It Happen
A variety of online sources are always used to create these news articles for CDA Insights. A plethora of web articles cover the topics...
Aug 21, 20233 min read
Emotions: Achieving Health with Feelings
Emotions can be, well, an emotionally charged topic. Identifying, managing, engaging emotions may occur at any point in the counseling...
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Values and Population Served: The Tenth Anniversary of CDA Insights
The 10th anniversary of CDA Insights could generate a desire to look back, however, that topic was already covered in the December 2021...
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Hope: A Leadership Strategy
Despite the fact that hope is only four little letters, it is a very big word. The thesaurus lists over 40 synonyms for hope, including...
Oct 17, 20223 min read
Minds at Work: The Role of Social-Emotional Skills in the World of Work
Can all skills be taught? Who is the better teacher of soft skills: parents, schools, employers, friends? Which jobs require the most...
Feb 21, 20223 min read
A Hybrid Work Model: Benefits and Challenges When Working Differently
Individuals and companies are benefiting from the massive transition occurring in work models. Study after study in the past two years...
Dec 20, 20212 min read
Don't Look Back! Letting Go of the Past
December is a good month to review the past year, assess and set goals, and... STOP! Don't look back! Just because all the television...
Nov 15, 20212 min read
Executive Challenges Today: Help is Needed at the “Hire” Levels
It is easy to generate questions surrounding the challenges faced by executives today. For example, are “teamwork” and “executives” an...
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Team Work: Factors that Lead to a Better World
The more distanced the world became in 2020, the more the desire for connectedness increased. Workers knew intuitively that they needed...
Feb 15, 20213 min read
“Her-Storical” Perspective: Gender Issues in the Work World Today
The need to broaden and deepen our understanding of visionary women, gender bias, and career development cannot be limited to one month,...
Dec 21, 20202 min read
The Present: Focusing on What Is Needed Right Now
No one wants to spend the last few days of 2020 looking back at a year that was fraught with fear, change and challenges. Looking to 2021...
Nov 16, 20202 min read
Optimism: Being an Intentionally Positive and Unconventional Leader
While no one would argue that 2020 made it difficult for even optimists to feel positive, one role of the career professional is to...
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Disrupt: An Energizing, Informing and Empowering Response to 2020
No one would argue that 2020 has been a year of disruptions. Paychecks, lifestyles, and even the weather have seen such extreme changes...
Jul 20, 20202 min read
Enhancing the Job Search: Successful Tricks when Facing a Tricky Search
Of course the all-important word “LinkedIn” is going to be included somewhere on this page about enhancing the job search. There is no...
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