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5 Questions to Ask When People Drive You Crazy

By: Lea McLeod As surely as the sun rises in the east, someone will get on your nerves today. The degree to which they do will be in direct proportion to the amount of stress, anxiety, or other negative emotion you’re experiencing. This week, I let someone throw me...

On Being ‘Nice’

Women often find themselves between a rock and a hard place. When women are viewed as "nice," studies show that people "like" them better, but they are considered less effective in the workplace. When they're considered more effective but less nice, they experience...

Research Summary: Women in the Workforce (BLS Data)

Study: Women in the Labor Force - A Databook (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013) Finding: Women's participation in the workforce is vibrant, substantial and growing. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not affiliated with...

5 Strategies to Help You Forgive

Is there someone in your life that you need to forgive?  Have you reached out or are you still hanging onto the hurt?  I reconnected with a friend of mine, who I’ll call Mary, earlier this week.  Thanks to a big miscommunication about a job search nearly a decade ago,...

A Note to New Career Moms

The other day I found myself at the doctor’s office for the second time in two weeks. I wasn’t sick. My kids were. First, one caught a virus and juuusssst as he was starting to feel better – poof! – he gave the same freakin’ germs to his brother. “If I know what’s...

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