by Dale Kreienkamp | May 2, 2022 | Blog, Personal & Career Development
Congratulations new graduates! You now have your diploma, and you’re ready for the job market. It’s an exciting time in your life, but work isn’t like school. College is a linear process whereas life is more like a video game with unexpected challenges and levels you...
by Dale Kreienkamp | Aug 3, 2021 | Blog, Personal & Career Development
With over 80 youth from my congregation, I was ready to experience “white water” rafting on the Ocoee River, north of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where rafting took place for the Olympics in 1996. Each raft had a guide and I remember our guide sharing a warning, that...
by Dale Kreienkamp | Jun 8, 2021 | Blog, Leadership, Personal & Career Development
Have you ever been asked a question that wasn’t easy to answer, but in your heart, you knew it was the right question that needed to be answered? I know what that question is, and it’s always been a hard one for me. It’s the question we all need to be ready to answer...
by Dale Kreienkamp | Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, Leadership, Personal & Career Development
It is a parent teacher conference, Justen and Kathy are discussing their son’s grade with Don, his high school Calculus teacher. There was almost panic in their voices about his grade, which wasn’t an “A”, he was struggling to make a “C.” “He has to have an “A””,...
by Dale Kreienkamp | Oct 19, 2020 | Blog, Job Search, Personal & Career Development
“When one door closes, another opens.” You have likely used this phrase, or had it said to you as a reminder that new opportunities are on the way. That phrase leads people to think there is a particular “door” they must locate and open to find the opportunity – a new...