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Managing a Polarized Workforce Without Abandoning Your Principles

Managing a Polarized Workforce Without Abandoning Your Principles

Key Takeaways Successfully managing a polarized workforce–including deciding whether to take public stances–requires a crucial mindset shift: move away from trying to align personal beliefs and instead focus on aligning teams around shared professional objectives and...

Women in Leadership: A Guide for Women, Their Mentors and Allies

Women in Leadership: A Guide for Women, Their Mentors and Allies

Download this article in PDF Women in leadership play a critical role in driving innovation, improving organizational performance, and promoting diversity. Companies with gender-diverse leadership teams report higher profitability and stronger employee engagement....

Is The Era Of Servant Leadership Over?

Is The Era Of Servant Leadership Over?

I believe I have found the chink in the armor of servant-based leadership, which is that when only some people are served, everyone does not feel protected. Instead, they feel vulnerable. 

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Self Care for Leaders During Layoffs

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Self Care for Leaders During Layoffs

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...

Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?

Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?

Key Takeaways Coaching vs. Mentoring: Key Differences: Coaches focus on personalized growth, offering tools and strategies for skill and leadership development, while mentors share their experience, providing industry-specific insights and helping expand professional...

5 Tips for Networking Success

5 Tips for Networking Success

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:...

Popular Posts

How to Prepare for a Performance Review or Job Interview

How to Prepare for a Performance Review or Job Interview

One thing I love most about the InPower Community and other forums where I take part as an expert is answering people's questions. One of the most popular topics on people's minds is how to prepare for a performance review, followed closely by queries about how to...

Want An Executive Job? 4 Tricks To Get Out Of The Weeds

Want An Executive Job? 4 Tricks To Get Out Of The Weeds

In a previous post about job interview tips, I outlined the findings of several research studies about advancing your career – especially for professional women in leadership who want to land a C-suite executive job. The research basically pointed up the...

10 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes Most of Us Make

10 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes Most of Us Make

Do you ever wonder what the "best practices" are for LinkedIn, whether you're looking for a job or not? Check out this wonderful post by Henna on common LinkedIn mistakes most of us make for some good advice. We've already done a little LinkedIn profile update after...

Leadership

Managing a Polarized Workforce Without Abandoning Your Principles

Managing a Polarized Workforce Without Abandoning Your Principles

Key Takeaways Successfully managing a polarized workforce–including deciding whether to take public stances–requires a crucial mindset shift: move away from trying to align personal beliefs and instead focus on aligning teams around shared professional objectives and...

Is The Era Of Servant Leadership Over?

Is The Era Of Servant Leadership Over?

I believe I have found the chink in the armor of servant-based leadership, which is that when only some people are served, everyone does not feel protected. Instead, they feel vulnerable. 

Mentoring

Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?

Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?

Key Takeaways Coaching vs. Mentoring: Key Differences: Coaches focus on personalized growth, offering tools and strategies for skill and leadership development, while mentors share their experience, providing industry-specific insights and helping expand professional...

Sponsor vs. Mentor – 3 Tips for Attracting a Sponsor

Sponsor vs. Mentor – 3 Tips for Attracting a Sponsor

Is “Executive Sponsor” is the New “Mentor” for Women Leaders? The missing piece in women's advancement strategies into leadership? Mentorship helps us be effective, but it’s not as helpful at helping us get a job as sponsorship is. Dana takes a look at what is means...

Building Successful Mentorship Programs: What You Need to Know

Building Successful Mentorship Programs: What You Need to Know

Mentorship is an important part of any leadership development program. But should you formalize something that is often most powerful in its informal state? Having participated in and supported many different styles of mentorship program over the course of my career I...

Interviews

How to be an Ally to Women of Color, and All Women

How to be an Ally to Women of Color, and All Women

I so appreciate this conversation with Saundra Gilliard and the powerful women who participated in my interview with her. We discussed the complexities of setting up true and impactful alliances across racial lines between women. It turns out that the answer to the...

Getting a Promotion is SO Yesterday

Getting a Promotion is SO Yesterday

Podcast/Audio Getting a promotion has never been so hard. The economy is in constant flux and burnout is running high, especially among women. One question many are asking these days is, "Do I even want a promotion? And if I'm unsure, why should I stay here?" These...

Career Advice

5 Practices To Go From Fears to Fierce

5 Practices To Go From Fears to Fierce

Key Takeaways: Fear is normal—don’t pretend it’s not there. Instead of hiding behind rational excuses, call fear what it is. You're not broken; you're just human. And fear, like heartburn after pizza, is something we all deal with. Make friends with your fear. Invite...

Do You Confuse Emotions with Emotional Intelligence (EQ?)

Do You Confuse Emotions with Emotional Intelligence (EQ?)

Key Takeaways: Emotional intelligence isn’t about suppressing feelings—it’s about understanding them. EQ isn’t the absence of emotion; it’s the skill of recognizing emotions (yours and others’) and responding to them in a way that’s constructive, not reactive. Strong...

3 Tips To Help Women Network Effectively For Career Development

3 Tips To Help Women Network Effectively For Career Development

Key Takeaways: Women often build great networks but hesitate to use them—and that hesitation comes from deep, gendered wiring. Many women feel “icky” about leveraging relationships for professional gain, confusing authenticity with self-sacrifice. It’s time to rewrite...

Women in Leadership

5 Tips for Networking Success

5 Tips for Networking Success

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:...

The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make Receiving Feedback

The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make Receiving Feedback

Key Takeaways: Receiving feedback as a woman often means managing style critiques, not just performance issues: Women are disproportionately given feedback about how they behave—not just what they achieve. This makes receiving feedback more personal and often more...

Diversity & Inclusion

Is The Era Of Servant Leadership Over?

Is The Era Of Servant Leadership Over?

I believe I have found the chink in the armor of servant-based leadership, which is that when only some people are served, everyone does not feel protected. Instead, they feel vulnerable. 

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

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...

Why The Woman Effect? Men are Helping Us

Why The Woman Effect? Men are Helping Us

Key Takeaways: Work-life balance is evolving into work-life partnership. Many successful women are thriving not because they’ve mastered a solo juggle, but because they’ve built supportive partnerships—especially at home—with men who share the load, often in ways that...