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Why Playing Small Doesn’t Serve You Or Your Company
This guest post from Laurie Erdman reminds us that even though we are often encouraged to play small and create a work environment where I staffs can play small too, this helps nobody. It takes courage to play big. Where can you play bigger than you do today? ~Dana...
The Upside of Office Politics
Key Takeaways: Feeling like a victim of office politics is more common than you think—but staying stuck in that mindset keeps you from recognizing your power and learning the rules of the game. Office politics isn’t evil; it’s just human dynamics in action—who gets to...
Manage your own career – advice from Sharon Miller
Key Takeaways: Sometimes we think we're steering our careers, but in reality, we might just be going along for the ride—letting employers, bosses, or life circumstances nudge us off course without realizing it. Acting out of frustration or urgency—like leaping from...
Fear of Failure and Embracing The Inner Loser
Key Takeaways: Fear of failure is sneaky—it creeps into our dreams, our self-talk, and our leadership style, convincing us we’re impostors just waiting to be exposed (usually right before a big presentation). We all have an “inner loser”—that voice whispering that...
How to be “Realistic” Without Becoming Negative Nelly
Key Takeaways: It’s tough to bring a grounded, realistic voice into leadership conversations—especially in sales-driven cultures where optimism is currency—but doing so doesn’t have to make you the team downer. Speaking hard truths without sounding negative is a...
Stop Praising the Differences in Men and Women
Key Takeaways: Recognize the Evolution of Gender Traits: Many traits attributed to gender differences are socially learned rather than biologically inherent. As societal roles evolve, behaviors once considered gender-specific are increasingly adopted across genders....
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Leadership
Personal Development Plan for Leadership: Get Out of the Weeds and Bring Out Your Best Self
When I was early in my career, I sought leadership positions because I felt compelled to achieve my higher purpose through my career. I set out on a personal development plan for leadership believing it would make me a better, and more impactful person. But I soon...
How To Maintain And Use Group Power – Book Review of The PRIMES by Chris McGoff
A PRIME is a pattern or principle that reliably comes into play when people gather in a group. This observable pattern – once named and shared with the group – goes from being an unconscious pattern to a manageable dynamic. Use the PRIMES to increase your team’s power. A powerful group makes a more powerful leader.
Leaders Aren’t Only Bold and Outspoken
By: Kathryn Sollmann, 9Lives For Women Founder You’re just starting out in your career—or working in a summer job or internship to boost your resume and give you an edge after graduation. Either way you’re now on your personal path to leadership—not lost at the...
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Career Advice
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...
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...
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. –...
Women in Leadership
Intentions vs Goals: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Personal Success
Ever found yourself wondering about the effectiveness of your goals and how they align with your overarching life ambitions? ‘Intentions vs goals’ is not a competition. Both are important to your overall success, but most of us pay way too much attention to goals and...
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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....
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...
Diversity & Inclusion
Overcoming the Gender Gap [Infographic]
Do women have more opportunity to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship than we're taking? This data seems to say "yes." Originally on: kauffman.org
Research Says: We Need More Working Women
Study: The Business Benefits of Gender Diversity and Working Women on the Front Lines (Gallup, Badal, 2014) Finding: The study of more than 800 business units from two companies representing two different industries -- retail and hospitality -- finds that...
What Do Family-Friendly Policies Look Like? [Infographic]
When issues of family-friendly policies in the U.S. come up, it's hard for us to understand what's possible since we have little precedent in this country, historically. This infographic sheds light on what policies look like in other countries, countries without the...
