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The Power Code [Book Review]
There are a LOT of books out there on women in professional settings. I don’t read them all, or recommend many, though all of them are worth exploring for new ideas and insights. I am recommending that women and men both read The Power Code: More Joy. Less Ego....
Managing A Team With Psychological Safety To Achieve Team Productivity
You gotta love Google. Who else would conduct a data study on human soft skills dynamics to teach us what we already know? Ok, maybe we don’t already “know” that psychological safety produces more successful teams, but we each individually know: we’re more...
Tapping Your Inner Coach With Expressive Writing
Can an exercise in “expressive writing” reduce your stress, improve your mood and help you get ahead in your career? The answer is yes. Before I started coaching, I took a wandering, self-improvement journey. I quickly discovered that I had a secret “inner coach”...
The Risk of Self-Effacement? “Self-Erasement” – Do’s & Don’ts
Leaders are often told to be "humble," but this can actually work against women who are trying to get into leadership. Why? Not because humility isn't a virtue, but because some women use it to mask a lack of confidence and virtually disappear as a result. Think of...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: New To the Team And Dealing With Workplace Bullying By A Colleague
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, our Friday column to give you workplace advice and coaching. Please write in and tell me about a frustration you’re facing at the office and I’ll publish my answer in an upcoming column. I can’t wait to hear from you! In this week's post we'll...
Leadership Test: Integrity During The Holidays
Lessons for leadership. The holidays are a stressful time for all of us, when we struggle with work-life balance (or not) and work to serve our business and our families with equal gusto, too often at the expense of ourselves. This month when things are so crazy, I’m...
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Leadership
Do Men and Women Vision Future Success Differently?
One of the joys of my career has always been helping individuals and groups develop compelling, meaningful and guiding visions – the kind of visions that pull them excitedly into their future success. Most of the corporate visioning work I’ve done with executive teams...
2022 Leadership Development Carnival
We're so excited to be sharing this rich post full of great ideas this month. We've participated in the leadership development carnival for years and always find it full of good stuff to read and share. Communication The Power of Storytelling From Confucius to...
Imposter Syndrome: It’s Not Just for Women Anymore
I learned of the imposter syndrome early in my career at a women’s professional meeting, and through the years I’ve come to understand that the imposter syndrome is not just for women anymore. Way back when, the speaker on the podium described the phenomenon she said...
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Career Advice
Set Your Career Intention For the Year Ahead
Do the words “fresh start” or "intention setting" come to mind as a new school term approaches? What would a fresh start mean for you at work? At the start of the school term, students often get a list of what to pull together and how to prepare. We as adults at work...
Being Bold at Work
Many women think they are not leading, and yet they are. Why? Because they are setting their intentions, achieving them and making the world better as a result. We’d like more women to know how to be bold at work. Not to get the credit (though, you should take credit...
5 Steps to Taming Your Emotional Triggers
We welcome Dr. Marcia Reynolds back to the site to provide insight into ways of understanding and releasing your emotional triggers. Learn about Marcia's book, The Discomfort Zone and how to turn discomfort into a leadership asset. – InPower Editors How to Tame...
Women in Leadership
Burkini or Miniskirt: Why can’t women make their own decisions about what they want to wear?
It’s a simple question that I don’t think we women ask ourselves enough: why can’t we decide what to wear by ourselves? Burkini or miniskirt, so to speak. It seems that women are “managed” in their fashion decisions to wear what’s hot, what’s hip, or what’s...
The Art of Influence: Lesson 4 – Dress For Success?
InPower Women has begun a discussion on women, fashion and power, which is a great reason to repost this article Mary wrote a while ago. We love how Mary covers the issue of "dress for success", tying the power of being attractive to our own sense of confidence. Read...
Forget the “Virtuous Woman” Myth, Enter the “Virtuous Leader”
Have you noticed how harshly we can view women leaders, especially in politics? Is it because of sexism? Or is there something more subconscious and deeply cultural happening? We have had women leaders in the past, but the ones that many of us know best from childhood...
Diversity & Inclusion
Owning My Place on the Ladder of Privilege, Social Justice and Inequity
One coach’s approach to becoming a better human being I am profoundly uncomfortable. I recently wrote an article for Smartbrief about how to lead in response to the protests roiling our cities. While I stand by what I said, here is what I did not say in that article:...
3 Ways a Male Executive Can Help Create a Less Biased Corporate Culture
Dear Dana, I’ve recently been promoted to an executive position in my company and I read your article about how senior women can help change corporate culture regarding gender and sexual discrimination and harassment. In my new position, I now see things that are...
Good Careers for Women: Best Fields & Companies
By Anna Williams Women in today’s economy have more options than ever before, comprising almost 47 percent of the U.S. workforce. Among mothers with children under age 18, over 70 percent are employed. Women are more likely than men to earn a bachelor’s degree before...
