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Toss The To Do Lists – Set Your Intention And Lead
I no longer believe in ToDo lists. I sometimes use them to help clear my mind of stuff that’s in the way of important thoughts, BUT, I have found that in being productive, in running effective meetings and even in moving projects along a diffuse and choppy timeline,...
Soap vs. You: A Leader’s Guide to Branding
Back in the old days, companies did branding and people did leading. Not so today. Now-a-days if you want to get into, or stay in, leadership and other positions of influence you must have personal branding. In our overwhelmed world, brands – both personal and...
3 Ways to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed
Many times the voice in our head holds us back. So it is quite often the voice in our head that needs to give us permission to move forward. Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, Elizabeth's advice will give you permission to do this more often! - InPower Editors...
How To Get Through The Never Ending To-Do List
I’m a list maker. There’s something very gratifying for me to be able to cross things off my “list”. They’re done. Finished. It feels good and satisfying. I’m sure those of you who are list-makers can relate. But what about the task list that never ends? The one that...
How to Delegate: 3 Tips for Letting Go Of Control
One of the first leadership and management lessons most of us learn is how to delegate - and battle that old "control" instinct. Why is it first? Because leaders don't scale unless they delegate well and you have to scale if you're going to have a big impact. Andria...
The Impact of Poor Leadership on Burnout & Job Satisfaction
Burnout is a work-related process of chronic stress and disengagement and has been called the occupational hazard of the 21st century. The formula for job burnout is simple: too many job demands, too few job resources, and not enough recovery or time to re-charge...
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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...
Mentoring
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Career Advice
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
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
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
Vaulting Into The C-Suite, Interview with Patricia Koopersmith, COO of The Clearing
Patricia Koopersmith is the very definition of a doer and a go-getter, and a glass ceiling breaker, but to her surprise this career strength turned out to be one of her biggest hurdles as she transitioned into the executive ranks as Chief Operating Officer at The...
I’m Not Jaded: Don’t Discourage Our Future Female Leaders
Sometimes it's so easy to fall into negativity that we forget how much energy it saps from us. That's why we started InPower Women, to help restart the dialog about women, leadership and power. That's also why we love this post for female leaders by Kelsey, who...
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...
Diversity & Inclusion
Research Summary: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently
Title: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently Study: Reinvent Opportunity: Looking Through a New Lens (Accenture 2011) Finding: Women and men have different strategies for handling job dissatisfaction. InPower Insight: Women and men have similar...
Research Summary: Women and Risk – What if Women Ran Wall Street?
Title: What If Women Ran Wall Street? Study: What If Women Ran Wall Street? (Sheelah Kolhatkar, New York Magazine 2010) Finding: A certain amount of risk-taking is biologically driven by testosterone, and women can use this to their advantage in producing less...
Research Summary: Women on Boards Make More Generous Companies?
Study: Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms (Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee, Harvard Business School, 2011) Finding: More women on boards and senior management teams correlate with greater giving...
