Personal & Career Development Archive

A message from Wake Forest’s Professional Development Center team Now that we are in the final month of 2024, it’s only natural that many of us look back on what this year has been. Here is some advice to maximize the learning from these experiences. […]

November is known for many things: there’s the end of Daylight Savings Time (we gain that extra hour of sleep), Election Day, Veteran’s Day, Fibonacci Day on November 23 (11-23, get it?), and of course, Thanksgiving Day. Many of us celebrate Thanksgiving with our family […]

A guest post from Wake Forest’s Professional Development Center (PDC) Networking can be a polarizing topic. Just the sight of the word “networking” can bring up all sorts of different ideas and connotations. “Brown Noser” “Business Card Collector” “Relationship Builder” “Only for Extraverts” No doubt, […]

Applications are now open for the inaugural New Leader Institute of ‘24-25. The Professional Development Center (PDC) welcomes applications from staff who are first-time managers or supervisors and new to a formalized leadership position in their careers.  Participants will learn the difference between managing and […]

A guest post from Wake Forest’s Professional Development Center (PDC) Do you remember when Bitcoin was all the rage and Sam Bankman-Fried was getting loads of attention? He was a Forbes Top 30 under 30 and one of the top 50 richest people in the […]

A message from Wake Forest’s Professional Development Center team “I am so glad we still have it.” “Where have you all been?” “We have a what?” These are the responses our team is likely to hear when we talk with faculty and staff about the […]