We hear that women suffer from the imposter syndrome, but what exactly is it? Here is Vreneli's succinct description of the imposter syndrome: The first time you get driving lessons, it is very exciting so you will feel insecure. That makes sense. You have never driven a car before. At the...
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Career Planning Advice: Your Career Is a Journey – 4 Ways to Not Get Lost
Career planning advice should always start with, "You should always be doing career planning!" We all need this reminder because too often, you’ll get your dream job and think you’ve achieved your final goal. Then you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy what you achieved and believe that now is the time...
August 30: InPower Coffee Break: Shannon Muruli discusses overcoming your fears
Coffee break starts: 1pm ET / 10am PTDuration: 30 minutes Stay current with our podcast on iTunes. Does fear paralyze you from achieving your goals? Does it stop you in your tracks and make you reconsider what you are doing? This is especially true for women who are involved in starting up...
Giving and Getting: Find Community To Share Your Entrepreneur Story
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair The life of an entrepreneur can be thrilling. The rush of a big partnership or client win. An award acknowledging hard...
August 16: Mary Schaefer discusses setting a career intention for the next year
We all sometimes get stuck in our careers - get a little complacent, sometimes stuck, sometimes we just don't see a different way to get what we want. Or from a different perspective, we simply forget what we want. For this discussion, Mary Schaefer will be joining us again to discuss how to set a...
Captain Obvious Gets A Lesson in Empathy
There have been a number of projects where I observed a client not following industry best practices. It was weird. The client company had many smart employees, so for them not to follow best practices, to not do what was obvious, seemed strange. Why not do what every other company does? I learned...
May 24: InPower Coffee Break with Liz McGrory Discussing Working Mom Culture
What does it mean to be a Working Mom? What's Working Mom Culture? Liz McGrory is a certified professional coach, speaker, author and Working Mom Expert on About.com. She’s changing the working mom culture one working mom at a time by guiding them to be audacious bosses of their habits and...
Bored At Work? Stay Inspired And Learn New Things At Work
The world is changing by the minute. It’s exciting to see the constant changes with mobile, the Internet of Things, Agile, Lean, social media, bots, video. We are rethinking our world - how we live in it, how we play in it, and how we work in it. And then there is the work environment we have to...
May 10: InPower Coffee Break with Lynn Borton and Leading through Curiosity
What does it mean to lead through curiosity? We will be having a conversation with Lynn Borton, a facilitator—of conversations and transformation—with more than two decades of experience in governance and change management in the non-profit sector. For nearly 25 years she worked with NAMI...
May 3: InPower Coffee Break with Mary Schaefer – Improving Results with Pro-Human Workplaces
In our last converastion with Mary Schaefer, we talked about pro-human workplaces. We learned that employers who had pro-human work environments had a better bottom line. And not just slightly better - significantly better than their peers. She read this quote last time: Studies show that...