What I’ve learned about marketing, managing people, and being a human at work:

The Manager’s Guide to Parental Leave Planning: A Timeline
In the wealth of articles on what to pack in my hospital bag, I found nothing useful on parental leave planning. Here's what worked for us.

Job Crafting: The Cure for Career FOMO?
If you’re feeling a little fear of missing out — a sense that work could be about 15 percent better, try an exercise in Job Crafting before you quit.

Snaps and Buttons are for Chumps: Working Parents’ Practical Advice to Manage Baby-Raising
I pride myself on being coachable and listening to smart people around me. This MO has served me well... until I sought parenting advice.

Are You an “Asker” or a “Guesser” at Work?
The concept of ask vs. guess culture has fascinated me for years. When it comes to work, are you an asker or a guesser?

Talent Profiles Streamline Hiring and Onboarding. Steal Our Template.
Talent profiles become invaluable guides before and after hiring, ensuring new employees transition smoothly into their first year.

Who’s Doing the Glue Work at Your Company?
When a few employees pick up all the little, invisible jobs, it harms their careers. We should identify and share that work, and make sure it gets rewarded.

The Low-Tech Tool I Use to Wrangle Runaway Worries at Work
Often, worries show up in the shadowy, less-conscious parts of my mind. This tool helps me gain perspective on worrying at work.

The Big Stay: Job-Hopping May Be Lucrative, but Tenure Pays, Too
Here are a few counterpoints to reasons people advocate for job-hopping. That trend is slowing down in favor of one called The Big Stay.

How to Start Investing in an Employer Retirement Plan if You Aren’t a Personal Finance Nerd
If you make a modest investment in a retirement plan early in your career, the growth of those investments will increase exponentially.

Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 2: Our Publication Process
In my previous post, I explained why we pay our software makers to blog daily. In this post, I’ll share each step of the publication process.

Breaking Down Employee Blogging, Part 1: Why Bother?
As Atomic’s marketing director, one of the questions I’m most often asked is how we get our employees blogging daily about software.