By Yvonne Milosevic With unemployment at a record 3.6%, today’s professionals can afford to be selective about their jobs. That’s why they’re looking for a work environment where they feel supported, understood, and just plain happy. Leaders need to ditch their heavy-handed management styles where…
By Yvonne Milosevic We don’t know about you, but here at the Blacklight, we’re so ready to turn the page on 2021. Sure, no one can predict what fresh calamity might lurk just around the corner. But we firmly believe that we can weather any…
By Yvonne Milosevic We’re all familiar with burnout, but have you heard of its equally evil twin, boreout? Instead of dealing with excessive busyness and overflowing plates, people who suffer from boreout syndrome experience a mental underload at work. Swiss business consultants Philippe Rothlin and Peter Werder coined this notion…
Happiness is a Skill You Can Learn By Yvonne Milosevic As we head into a new, post-pandemic reality, many of us are clearly living in a perpetual state of “meh.” We don’t yet know what long-term toll COVID-19 will have on our collective well-being. Psychologist…
By Yvonne Milosevic For many people, the start of a new decade had sparked the desire to explore new career paths in 2020. Then, the coronavirus pandemic struck. Suddenly, we were sheltering in place, working from home, or unemployed overnight. Those conditions might seem incompatible…