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Research Says: The Language Power of Female Leadership
Study The Language of Female Leadership (Judith Baxter, UK Economic and Social Research 2011) Finding: Women tend to take on apologetic language pattern styles in executive committee meetings. InPower Insight: Turn powerless language into powerful language and own...
Set Your Career Intention For the Year Ahead
Do the words “fresh start” or "intention setting" come to mind as a new school term approaches? What would a fresh start mean for you at work? At the start of the school term, students often get a list of what to pull together and how to prepare. We as adults at work...
Being Bold at Work
Many women think they are not leading, and yet they are. Why? Because they are setting their intentions, achieving them and making the world better as a result. We’d like more women to know how to be bold at work. Not to get the credit (though, you should take credit...
5 Steps to Taming Your Emotional Triggers
We welcome Dr. Marcia Reynolds back to the site to provide insight into ways of understanding and releasing your emotional triggers. Learn about Marcia's book, The Discomfort Zone and how to turn discomfort into a leadership asset. – InPower Editors How to Tame...
How to Give Feedback by Asking Questions
Managers can read books, get trained, practice and plan, and still your employee may toss you something you don't anticipate. But you can handle it. The key is asking good questions and really listening. When you give feedback, you are a role model. They will...
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...
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Why You Should Cultivate a Leadership Mentoring Style
Someone once gave me the greatest compliment. She said, “Since you’re my mentor I think you can help me with this.” Until that moment I had no idea I was her mentor! From that day forward, I started paying more attention to my interactions with her, being more clear...
The Power of Female Leadership: 3 Important Behaviors to Adopt
By: Carmen Bolanos We’ve all read about the qualities it takes to become a great female leader: how to “lean in,” what language to use in order to show an attitude of cooperation, the importance of personal flexibility. In addition to some of these overt actions and...
5 Important Lessons in Empathetic Leadership
By: Kevin Xu The greatest business lessons we can learn always involve treating one another with respect and kindness. When a devastating magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit Sichuan, China in May 2008, my late father Dr. Rongxiang Xu was the first person to assemble a...
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Career Advice
FAQ: Career Coach Advice
Though most of my executive coaching centers on leadership, authentic personal branding and thriving in the midst of office politics, I often support people in job search and career transition. When I am giving career coach advice, I often find some themes in the...
How to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome: Make it Your Best Friend
Mary finally received her promotion! After years of positioning herself and working on her personal brand she finally achieved her goal and had been put in charge of a product division for a major manufacturer. Predictably, our first executive coaching call in her new...
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...
Women in Leadership
Dear Dana Career Advice: What do they mean when they say you need a confidence leadership style?
Dear Dana, What do they mean when they say I should be more "confident"? I recently had a boss tell me that if I want to get ahead I need to express “confidence leadership style.” I think I am confident but I keep getting this advice in order to further my career. My...
Leadership, the Imposter Syndrome, and Being REAL
Do you ever feel like an imposter? Like someone will figure out you aren't up to the job you have? Guess what? The Imposter Syndrome is a thing. And it's a thing all kinds of leaders learn to deal with and overcome. Women. Men. Even people like you who are in exactly...
6 Things You can Do When You’ve Had Enough Of Sexual Discrimination & Self-Sabotage
Every woman reaches a point at least once in her life (most of us, many more), where the frustration of sexual discrimination, subtle undermining or personal self-sabotage we learned at the knee of the dominant culture smacks us in the face. You know it. It’s that...
Diversity & Inclusion
4 Workplace Trends on the Horizon [Infographic]
There are some major changes in the forecast for the workplace. Over the next 10 years it is expected that the majority of baby-boomers will retire reducing the overall workforce numbers by 40%. Many job areas will suffer from this reduction, namely those jobs which...
Surviving the Wolves’ Den: Leadership Character Through a Woman’s Lens
How is a woman’s perspective on her leadership identity different than a man’s? This question goes DEEP, but Dana uncovers a fundamental distinctions between inner and outer definitions of leadership that often leave women at a disadvantage in identifying how...
Research Says: Do Nice guys – and Gals – Really Finish last?
Study: Do Nice Guys- and Gals- Really Finish Last? The Joint Effects of Sex and Agreeableness on Income (Timothy A. Judge, Beth A. Livingston, Charlice Hurst. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2011) Finding: Being too agreeable can have negative results on...
