by Rochelle Melander Identify a person’s strengths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run. – Marcus Buckingham One of my teaching mentors gave me this advice about managing a challenging class, “Encourage and reward... Read More

by Rochelle Melander One hasn’t become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating. – Niyi Osundare... Read More

July 4, 2023 Note From Rochelle Dear writers, Hello, hello, and happy Fourth to those who celebrate. Today’s tip is an excerpt from my book, Level Up. I tend to be a workhorse—that’s what my thesis advisor called me—push right through. But that’s not the sanest or most productive approach.... Read More