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5 Steps to Taming Your Emotional Triggers

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

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)?

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...

The Gender Wealth Gap: Pay Gap Reframed

The Gender Wealth Gap: Pay Gap Reframed

For better or worse, the gender pay gap (currently at $0.77 per dollar) is now a fact of life we all seem to accept, sadly, as each equal pay day for different gender and racial demographics passes throughout the year. Given that our paychecks are not only necessary...

Leadership Through Conversations

Leadership Through Conversations

Sometimes the simple things are the most powerful. How often do you simply talk to the people you work with? How often are you human with them and invite their humanity out? John reminds us why leadership conversations are so important. - InPower Editors Two weeks...

7 Ways to Survive A Bully Boss

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...

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5 Steps for Earning Respect as a Leader

5 Steps for Earning Respect as a Leader

By: Carrie Rich Every few days, my tech-savvy father sends me a simple reminder via text — an image, a saying, a blessing or a piece of wisdom to remind me about what’s important in life. The other day, he sent me this powerful quote from Bryant McGill: “You have to...

As Leaders In Business, What Is Our Calling?

“Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.” ~ Mollie Marti What is our purpose in life? That is a question that could be discussed for hours and is worthy of our attention. I pose it because I believe how we lead our personal lives has...

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How to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome: Make it Your Best Friend

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?

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...

How to Use Career Intention to Have Your Best Year Ever

How to Use Career Intention to Have Your Best Year Ever

When I was 28, I discovered that my favorite day of the year was New Year’s Day.  And every year since I’ve had my best year ever. As a habit, I don’t overindulge in party mode on the Eve so the Day is mine to do with as I please. Especially before we all carried a...

Women in Leadership

WOMEN LEADERS – A Global Phenomenon

WOMEN LEADERS – A Global Phenomenon

By: Suzanne Wisse - Huiskes As a startup mentor of accelerator programs in developing countries, I am a mentor to some exceptional female entrepreneurs, women leaders who make a huge impact on their community no matter the circumstances. I’ve seen entrepreneurs start...

Women’s Empowerment Update: Progress in International Development

Women’s Empowerment Update: Progress in International Development

When Dana first announced The Woman Effect, which recognizes that gender balanced groups produce better results than gender-dominant groups, we noted that this philosophy was informing efforts to improve conditions for even the poorest countries. That was 5 years ago!...

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl

  Mary Jennings Hegar was an all-American girl from Texas. She had an abusive father, a loving mother and step father, and a dream to fly airplanes in war. She did that, and much more. Reading her memoir, Shoot Like A Girl, was a real treat for someone who explores...

Diversity & Inclusion

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...