Everyone struggles with difficult conversations - just a little. Learning to have a tough conversation isn't just a leadership skill, it's a life skill. Learn it early and often. Do it with compassion and you help yourself, your business and the people you're having the tough conversation with...
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11 Things Your Team Can Teach You About Leadership
It's typical to think that your boss will teach you to be a better leader, but sometimes the most important lessons come from below or along-side. These young entrepreneurs share amazing leadership advice about what they've learned from their employees. - InPower Editors You hired your employees...
Personal Power Tip: How to Respond Instead of React
How many times do you react without thinking and wish you'd had the ability to stop and choose your response more intentionally? Don't feel alone if you said "too many times!" Sameer gives some great advice and perspective on this all-too-common challenge to developing your personal power in the...
Relaxation: A Secret to Personal Power
When we first met Sameer, martial artist, coach and all around interesting guy, we were struck by the way he embodied personal power. Getting to know him we discovered a seeker, guru, teacher and coach who understands how personal - inner - power translates into external power in the world in very...
3 Steps to Feeling Confident
What does an etiquette expert say when you ask her to talk about inner power? Kara Ronin gives us the answer. We love how Karen ties together inner power with outer presence. - InPower Editors Did you know that confidence isn't something you're born with? Shocking revelation—I know. In today's...
Strategies to Keep from Falling Off a Glass Cliff (Mary Barra, Are You Listening?)
Every event we go to we are asked whether we think Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, was set up for failure. The Glass Cliff is certainly a problem for some, but let's face it. When you're taking on top leadership roles, whether you're a woman or a man, you're going to face some risks and some...
Leadership Skill: Hearing Bad News
GUEST AUTHOR: ANN TIMMONS It takes a lot of humility to be a good leader. You have to be personally strong enough to hear bad news without blaming the messenger. Ann does a great job of helping us focus on this key leadership skill and reminding us why developing our own inner power is so useful...
Career Coach: How Critical Thinking Independence Defeats Dragons
Early in our career - or anytime in our career - we often encounter workplace challenges that seem overwhelming. We really like how Sheila breaks down an overwhelming problem into its piece parts with the socratic method to provide guidance for how to tackle big career challenges. The dragons...
You Can Have It All? Moms on the brink
It's no secret that being a working mom is a tough job, and everyone seems to have an opinion on the downsides. When many working mothers hear, "you can have it all," they also hear, "and since you don't have it all you must be doing something wrong." We want to honor Shana, at the...
Leading Change: It’s What They See You Doing
Bringing more women into leadership requires that cultures change. Not because they're "keeping us out," but because business culture with more women is simply different than most of the ones that exist today. For that matter, virtually all leadership requires that we master the dynamics of...