Professional Development Archives

Survivor Guilt – RIF Aftermath

LISAACROCKETT / September 26, 2025

Gratitude and panic make an odd couple, but after a Reduction in Force (RIF) they move right in together, rearranging […]

LISAACROCKETT / September 25, 2025

My dad woke up at 3 a.m. to deliver milk, then spent the rest of the day under the hood

LISAACROCKETT / September 24, 2025

Humans are endlessly weird. We’ll put up with software that crashes every other Tuesday, workflows stitched together with duct tape,

LISAACROCKETT / September 23, 2025

Did you know signal lights on major highways in Connecticut are now OPTIONAL??? This weekend I was driving to Mystic

LISAACROCKETT / September 18, 2025

Reasonable is forgettable. Reasonable doesn’t change anyone’s mind. And reasonable never once cracked open a heart. So, STOP trying to

LISAACROCKETT / September 17, 2025

A hospice nurse asked me if my mother had always been a stoic. I snort-laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe

LISAACROCKETT / September 16, 2025

There’s no Advil for this hangover. Not the too much wine-at-dinner kind, but the return-from-Conference World haze. The ride home

LISAACROCKETT / September 10, 2025

Once upon a job interview, the feedback about me was: “Hire this woman, she’s a bulldozer.” Not exactly the compliment

LISAACROCKETT / September 4, 2025

Being “Good at your job” isn’t a promotion plan… one of my coaching clients came in hot this week: “I

LISAACROCKETT / September 2, 2025

You know what never makes it into the project plan? The living. The actual life stuff. Nobody books a Teams