Rebuilding Your Sense Of Self After A Job Loss

Collaboration might be a popular word now, but hidden in plain sight is the power it represents. Turning a design vision into reality involves a lot of moving parts and collaboration from people with vastly different strengths, knowledge, and perspectives. It’s a team effort with owners, developers, contractors, and architects working together.

Five strategies to help steady the ship when weathering the market’s ups and downs. In today’s market, many companies turn to strategic communications with the hope that it can drive up their stock price or bolster their market position. While the stock market has been surging, especially in sectors that benefited from recent tech buzz (AI!) and investor optimism, there’s still caution in the air.

To unlock the best version of yourself and become a successful leader, focus on several key areas. Leadership is often portrayed as a natural talent—something you either have or you don’t. However, the truth is that successful leaders do not have an innate gift but rather a cultivated skill. Becoming a great leader requires self-awareness, continuous learning, and a commitment to personal growth.

Molg, a startup that just raised a seed round of funding from Amazon and others, wants to make the electronics industry circular. After a decade of designing consumer electronics, Rob Lawson-Shanks couldn’t stop thinking about how many of the products he worked on would ultimately end up in landfills. “I started to realize I was contributing to this massive, 60-million-ton problem of e-waste because of how we were designing, manufacturing, and ultimately not recovering [products],” he says.

A job loss can bring up feelings of grief and shame. Here’s how to rebuild and figure out what you want in your next opportunity. When you meet someone new at a party, you may open the conversation with “What do you do?”

More than 30% of participants scored as clinically depressed prior to starting the class, compared with just under 13% immediately after the class. Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U. S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.