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What if We Treated Our Relationships With Employers Like Marriage?
No, not like that, hear me out…
I was talking recently with a newly engaged friend. She and her fiancé are preparing for all the wildness of wedding planning, including something called pre-cana.
“Pre-what,” I asked?
The short answer was, essentially, pre-marriage counseling for Christian couples.
Spouses-to-be meet with religious leaders (like priests or deacons) and other already-married people to learn “how it is” on the other side of a wedding. The topics range from finances to intimacy to conflict resolution and even careers — all the stuff couples should discuss before entering into a pretty serious, typically life-long arrangement.
How interesting, I thought.
Before we were waxing about weddings, we were having a hearty chat about starting new jobs — we both recently had — and how convoluted the process often is, especially in our nonprofit sector.
As she was enlightening me about pre-cana, I wondered: “Wouldn’t it be interesting if companies had organizational pre-cana with new employees?”
With a divorce rate (in the U.S.) hovering between 40–50% and millions of people divorcing their jobs every month, thinking about…
