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Research Says: How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace

Research Says: How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace

How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace (Harvard Business Review, 2009, Medina) Finding: Mean girls and workplace bullying are having detrimental affects on companies' productivity and bottom line. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This gender research study...

Learn to Rock the Boat

Learn to Rock the Boat

Women are often caught in the paradox of wanting to "play nice" and the need not to "rock the boat." It can feel like a no-win scenario but Henna reminds us that the path out of this paradox is authenticity. - InPower Editors How many times have you stopped to...

Define ‘Authentic’ At Work

Define ‘Authentic’ At Work

We love it when smart thinkers challenge buzzwords, which is why we love Laurie’s post this week as she endeavors to define Authentic behavior in the workplace and explore the deeper meanings of this important idea. After reading the post, take a moment and think...

6 Lessons Learned on the Work-Life Jungle Gym

6 Lessons Learned on the Work-Life Jungle Gym

Sheryl Sandberg contributed many valuable insights to professional women in her book, Lean In. The one that hit me most squarely was her analogy of a career as a jungle gym instead of a ladder. Truer words have never been written, and I think this is a major...

Why You Want a Seat at the Table  Early in Your Career

Why You Want a Seat at the Table Early in Your Career

I won’t pretend that I see every trend or can put my finger on THE solution to how to achieve gender parity in leadership, however, I do notice a few things I believe can help women gain important perspectives. One thing that’s popped up in my practice...

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Leadership

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...

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Career Advice

Who Do You Work For (Really)?

Who Do You Work For (Really)?

I had lunch recently with a career coach who works for one of those big outplacement firms. She told me something that really opened my eyes. Whereas until about five years ago, many companies would include “career development” in their definition of employee...

7 Ways to Survive A Bully Boss

7 Ways to Survive A Bully Boss

There’s an old stereotype about female bosses, which is that they can be really mean, and for some reason women are often the ones to perpetuate this story about female leaders. Personally, I don’t think this is particularly more common – or more important – to think...

Questions to Ask a Mentor

Questions to Ask a Mentor

Mentors are a true career asset, whether they are “officially” part of a formal mentoring relationship (often matched through a mentoring program) or unofficially informal relationships that grow organically. Regardless of how you enter a mentoring...

Women in Leadership

Research Summary: The New Path To C-Suite Leadership

Research Summary: The New Path To C-Suite Leadership

Title: The New Path to C-Suite Leadership Study: The New Path To The C-Suite (Boris Groysberg, L. Kevin Kelley, and Bryan McDonald, The Harvard Business Review 2011) Finding: Would-be executives in each functional area have different paths to follow to the top. Learn...

Keys to Success: 2 Tricks for Goal-Setting and Personal Change

Keys to Success: 2 Tricks for Goal-Setting and Personal Change

Leadership, career and success gurus place a huge focus on goals as keys to success. There are tons of articles, books, videos, classes and “systems” on how to set goals, how to organize them and how to “keep” them. Entire franchises have been built on this one...

Diversity & Inclusion

Women’s Empowerment Update: Progress in International Development

Women’s Empowerment Update: Progress in International Development

When Dana first announced The Woman Effect, which recognizes that gender balanced groups produce better results than gender-dominant groups, we noted that this philosophy was informing efforts to improve conditions for even the poorest countries. That was 5 years ago!...

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

  Mary Jennings Hegar was an all-American girl from Texas. She had an abusive father, a loving mother and step father, and a dream to fly airplanes in war. She did that, and much more. Reading her memoir, Shoot Like A Girl, was a real treat for someone who explores...