Key Takeaways: Layoffs affect leaders too: While the focus is often on helping those who are laid off, team leaders also experience significant stress, including guilt and additional work. It's important to recognize that leaders need support as well. Adopt a mindset of transition: Accept that...
Key Takeaways: Networking is a crucial leadership skill: As you advance in your career, networking becomes more important than technical expertise, helping you clear obstacles and connect with resources and information. Networking doesn’t have to be about big events: Success in networking is often...
Key Takeaways: Understanding Confidence: Confidence isn't about perfection; it's about knowing what to expect and how to handle it. Building confidence involves learning from experiences and practicing responses until you find what works. Identifying Areas for Growth: Recognize areas where you...
Key Takeaways: Integrity as the Antidote to Toxic Corporate Culture: In environments where negativity and dysfunction prevail, introducing integrity can act as a transformative force. By upholding commitments and fostering trust, leaders can counteract pervasive toxicity. Empowering Personal...
Make your YES mean more by saying NO more often. Saying “No” is hard because we don’t just say the word, we burden it with other – unsaid – baggage on both the sayer’s and receiver’s part. But it doesn’t have to be that way and powerful leaders know how to use the Art of No in ways that leave the listener feeling useful, appreciated and inspired. Learn to practice the Art of No. Your team will thank you for it.
Key Takeaways: “Shoot like a girl” means lead with grit, heart, and skill. MJ Hegar’s story redefines what it means to be tough—not by acting like the guys, but by showing up fully as a woman who can fly, fight, and stand her ground under fire, both in combat and in the face of systemic...
Key Takeaways: Leadership isn’t reserved for the C-suite—it’s a daily, personal choice to stand in your power and be a force for positive change, wherever you are. We've let go of our dreams and power too easily—traded in our passion for the illusion of security, and it’s time to wake that...
Key Takeaways: Gratitude isn't about denying your frustration—it's about learning how to shift your emotional state so you can respond from a place of peace and power. Waiting for your boss to change gives away your control; learning to shift your own mindset puts the power back in your hands....
The Dali Lama said “The Western Woman will come to the rescue of the world.” Never mind that Hilary Clinton didn’t get elected president of the United States. The trend she is a part of is well underway, and I’m not talking about feminism.
Just because no one I know got raptured last weekend doesn’t mean the apocalypse isn’t upon us; it just means we get to change the world before everything goes to hell. The world is in a pretty nasty state, based on the daily headlines, and it’s easy to feel powerless to save it. Yet I know so many people determined to do just that, many of them women. What I’d like to see is more people – men and women – stepping into their world-saving powers, more consciously, more assertively and more effectively.
Note to Men: Don’t stop reading now (if you got this far – kudos to you!) The stuff we ladies are naturally good at – and that the world needs – you are pretty good at too. Mostly you just need to ALLOW yourself to be good at it!
This guest post from Laurie Erdman reminds us that even though we are often encouraged to play small and create a work environment where I staffs can play small too, this helps nobody. It takes courage to play big. Where can you play bigger than you do today? ~Dana Key Takeaways: Fast-growing...
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Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Self Care for Leaders During Layoffs
