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Team Achievements Examples: Accomplishments When Applying for a Job
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, a column to give you career and workplace advice/coaching from executive coach, Dana Theus Dear Dana, I am updating my resume to apply for jobs. I read your article about "speaking accomplishments." I liked your advice and will apply it to how...
Research Summary: The Qualities that Distinguish Women Leaders
Study: The Qualities that Distinguish Women Leaders (Greenburg, Caliper 2005) Finding: Women and women leaders abilities to share freely, collaborate, and build teamwork, distinguishes them as great leaders. InPower Insight: Include women leaders to bolster your...
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 Dress for Work: The Casual Dilemma
As we come closer to Spring, would-be graduates are starting to stream towards the workforce. One issue they always need support on: how to dress for work. Appropriate workwear is more complicated than it seems because it’s one of the most visible expressions of our...
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.
3 Things Women in Leadership Can Do To Stop Workplace Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
If you’re a woman in leadership, chances are you’ve experienced workplace discrimination due to your gender, even if you’re not aware of it. More likely, you were aware of it (especially if you’ve experienced sexual harassment) and were trying to ignore it so it...
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Lessons from a Power Breakfast – What’s at STAKE?
To everyone but us, we were a power breakfast. Meeting early at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington DC, we were strategists behind an international organization representing 160 of the biggest companies and Non Governmental Organization (NGO) nonprofits in the...
INSPIRATION: Being Begets Doing
I’m a pragmatic person. When I want something to happen, I think about what I should DO. Seems logical, right? Cause begets effect. Stuff happens ‘cuz other stuff happened before it. Do something, make something happen. Duh. But… even though I believe that the way I...
The Power of Who in Personality Assessments
Here’s a quick social experiment I’d like you to try at your next cocktail party or networking event. Instead of asking the ubiquitous “So, what do you do?” question of the first person you meet, ask this instead: “So, who are you?” The first question can get you a...
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Career Advice: Examples of Team Accomplishments When Applying for a Job
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, a column to give you career and workplace advice/coaching from executive coach, Dana Theus Dear Dana, I am updating my resume to apply for jobs. I read your article about "speaking accomplishments." I liked your advice and will apply it to how...
5 Things You Can Do To Help Your Company – Leadership Right Now
In recognition of the fact that a company with women in roughly 30% of its leadership tend to produce healthier and stronger performing companies, there are lots of good programs out there trying to help women. But should we really wait for HR to come up with a great program?
Seriously – it’s not about the special programs. It’s about you and me and what we do every day to create the culture we live in – and to create a culture that welcomes the gifts women bring into the leadership ranks. Culture is created by the behaviors we tolerate and those we don’t. This doesn’t just apply to women.
Men and women both bear responsibility for helping lead their companies and create a strong culture – no matter what their title is.
Personally what can we do?
Do Hard: The Most Important Mentoring Tips For Women In Leadership
Much is written about how few women make it into the top leadership positions. The reasons are complex and multilayered, so there is much to write. But I consistently find several mentoring tips for women both maximally effective and minimally understood when I talk...
Women in Leadership
Executive Presence for Women: What does it even mean?
Discussions about how women can rise to the top have traditionally focused on discriminatory dynamics. And there are many of those dynamics to discuss, but that’s not all there is to it. In addition to navigating unconscious bias, harassment and discrimination, women...
Executive Mindset: Advice for Women Leaders to Navigate the Glass Ceiling
Discussions of the “glass ceiling,” an invisible barrier to the progression of women (and other underrepresented leaders) from management to the executive ranks, has traditionally focused on discriminatory dynamics. But there’s more to the glass ceiling than...
Does Everything REALLY Happen for a Reason? A Contemplation on the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Does everything really happen for a reason? I’m not so sure. 2020 has been a year like no other in my memory. The earth is giving us so many challenges and then there’s the political and cultural shifts afoot that can truly challenge your beliefs about everything....
Diversity & Inclusion
The Evolution of Women in Business [Infographic]
This infographic explores the creative, determined efforts of 20 entrepreneurial women past and present. It details their journeys as the become inventors, motivators, and leaders. Guide to Women in LeadershipOrganizations with women in their executive suites...
An Infographic Look at History’s Most Amazing Female Leaders
While many extraordinary female leaders are household names, this selection of incredible women are not as well known. Discover the incredible women who changed the world and are often forgotten. Originally on: Brightonsbm.com Get InPower Women blog posts in your...
Do You Confuse Emotions with Emotional Intelligence (EQ?)
It often surprises my executive coaching clients how important their emotions are to their workplace success. Most of us have been trained to keep our emotions out of the office, so we let lag an ongoing investment in our Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Part of the...
