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Claim Credit For ‘Your’ Work

Claim Credit For ‘Your’ Work

by: Tanvi Gautam Climbing the corporate ladder is a competitive affair—just as competitive as football, basketball, swimming, or whatever your favorite sport may be. Just like in the world of sport, the key to winning is to make the most of your opportunities and to...

Executive Communications: Start with the Bottom Line

Executive Communications: Start with the Bottom Line

Every single one of my coaching clients face challenges with executive communications in one form or another. The most common contexts in which these issues come up include these two dimensions of personal branding and executive presence: Communicating in an executive...

Inside Out Change

Inside Out Change

Key Takeaways: Reframing Change Management: Change management models often fail to account for the internal change needed within individuals for successful implementation. Creating the Right Conditions: Successful change management requires preparing, including, and...

Microaggression – Everything You Say Matters

Microaggression – Everything You Say Matters

How you say things matters Hurt is hurt, no matter how small the words that carry the offense. Choose to speak powerfully, as though everything you say matters. Because it does. This is how we roll back the negative impact of microagression in our society. You can’t...

Decoding Leadership Presence: 3 Steps to Confidence

Decoding Leadership Presence: 3 Steps to Confidence

One of the most important things women can do to accelerate their career is develop authentic confidence. But it’s not always easy. Dana decodes leadership presence for women in this post based on her experience helping women adapt to a male business culture. –...

Why Asking For Help Is One Of Your Greatest Strengths

Why Asking For Help Is One Of Your Greatest Strengths

Do you ask for help when you need it? Why? Why not? At least as important ask asking for help is knowing when you need it, and when you don't because you can rely on your strengths. Sometimes you can ask for help to figure out whether you need it or not! Great leaders...

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Leadership

4 Key Leadership Lessons From Top Female Executives

4 Key Leadership Lessons From Top Female Executives

  What leadership lessons do you wish you'd known earlier in your career? Which ones would you like to learn the easy way instead of the hard way? Recent studies have revealed something that many savvy women have known all along: women are good for business. With so...

Executive Interview: Judy Marks, President & CEO of Otis Elevator

Executive Interview: Judy Marks, President & CEO of Otis Elevator

What do you do when you don’t have an executive female role model above you to show you what a successful woman looks, acts and thinks like? You find one somewhere else! We’re here to help! In our series of interviews with senior executive women we’re happy to...

Sanity Challenge: Powerful Bosses Don’t Listen

Sanity Challenge: Powerful Bosses Don’t Listen

And you thought it was just you. Research shows that the more power(*) a manager or leader has, the more likely they are to ignore advice. Does this describe your boss? We’ve all had them. To some extent the findings in this research--that powerful people listen less...

Mentoring

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Career Advice

Mentoring: How to Help Yourself, and Your Team Grow

Mentoring: How to Help Yourself, and Your Team Grow

I have a complicated relationship with mentoring. Though I’d heard that mentoring was important, I never felt I received much mentoring early in my career, certainly not by anyone who looked like me (I only had one female boss, once, for three months). With decades of...

Constructive vs Destructive Complaining

Constructive vs Destructive Complaining

Admit it. Sometimes you just need to whine a bit. Complaining is a natural impulse to experiencing things that we don't like. Mary gives us a great gift in helping distinguish constructive complaining from destructive complaining. Use her wisdom the next time you feel...

Women in Leadership

Iron Man vs. Athena for CEO – Leadership Battle of the Sexes?

Iron Man vs. Athena for CEO – Leadership Battle of the Sexes?

I recently saw Iron Man III with my family and it was a good time. Bad guys. Good guys. Destruction. Even a humble pie big enough to go around. As I enjoyed the pyrotechnics and good-guy triumph, however, I was reminded of how completely our comic books reinforce the...

Diversity & Inclusion

The 3% Leadership Revolution: A (Missed) Opportunity For Women?

The 3% Leadership Revolution: A (Missed) Opportunity For Women?

There is a quiet leadership revolution going on, a shift in the definition of success from “what” to “how.” In times of major change, the underdog has a strategic opportunity to end up on top. In this revolution, the women-in-leadership underdogs have a unique...

Gender Matters: Aussies Set Bar for Women in Film

Gender Matters: Aussies Set Bar for Women in Film

  Creative Commons "Supergirl” by Ali Zaidan is licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Oscar nominations are all the buzz after last week’s announcements. Even though 2015 saw some very strong roles for women in film (did you see Suffragettes?), as a whole the entertainment...