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3 Ways To Thrive During Life Changes
Have you ever lost your job? Cute quotes about making lemonade out of lemonade don't quite cut it when you get the news, do they? Dealing with change is tough, even for those of us who've practiced a lot. We really like Andria's simple rules for handling the...
The Role of Dialogue in Performance Reviews
Working in low-income communities, I’ve learned that leadership and management are not only skills that increase productivity, they can and should be empowerment skills as well. Dialogue, in particular, has become my go-to strategy for empowering the people who work...
Change Leadership: Maximizing your ROL (Return on Luck)
Sure, sometimes you’re the lucky recipient of spontaneous innovation, but according to business gurus, consistently good innovators actually have strategies for leveraging luck (the good and the bad) when it trips across their paths. In “Great by Choice” Jim Collins...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Lots of Interviews, But No Job Offer!
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, our weekly column to give you career and workplace advice/coaching. Please write in and tell me about a career challenge or frustration you’re facing at the office! – Dana Theus Dear Dana, I have been on a number of interviews and they all...
3 Reasons Effective Communication Skills On Technical Subjects Are Hard To Master
Miscommunication happens. The very nature of human communication dictates that the meaning I have inside me will become distorted by the time it makes it out of my mouth, through your ears and into your brain. But what happens when our brains seem wired very...
How to Prepare for a Performance Review or Job Interview
One thing I love most about the InPower Community and other forums where I take part as an expert is answering people's questions. One of the most popular topics on people's minds is how to prepare for a performance review, followed closely by queries about how to...
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Leadership
The Leadership Effect
What if everyone woke up one day and decided to lead from inside their power? We all can. All you have to do is set your intention. And do it.
Watch this great video more for inspiration on your journey.
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...
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
Mentoring: How to Help Yourself, and Your Team Grow
I have a complicated relationship with mentoring. Though I’d heard that mentoring was important, I never felt I received much mentoring early in my career, certainly not by anyone who looked like me (I only had one female boss, once, for three months). With decades of...
Constructive vs Destructive Complaining
Admit it. Sometimes you just need to whine a bit. Complaining is a natural impulse to experiencing things that we don't like. Mary gives us a great gift in helping distinguish constructive complaining from destructive complaining. Use her wisdom the next time you feel...
How to Prove Yourself Without Working Twice as Hard (for Half the Credit) When You Have Reduced Privilege
It’s both a trope and a truth that working twice as hard will help you get ahead in your career. It’s also, not surprisingly, a key assumption that under-represented leaders assume they must overwork in order to prove themselves in order to advance their careers. Talk...
Women in Leadership
Reframing the Quest to “Have it All” – The Case for Worklife Equity
How did we get here? Who’s silly idea was it to “have it all?” in the first place? My mother’s generation didn’t “have it all” – or even half. Married women in my mother’s and grandmother’s generation were locked in the domestic ivory tower as queens of their...
What You & An Air Force General Have in Common – The Path To Leadership
When I first met Lieutenant General Judith Fedder, I was immediately struck by her poise and presence. Then I noticed the three stars on her shoulder and wanted to know about her experience with power and leadership as one of the most senior ranking women in the...
Women Have No Skills (If You Just Listen To What They Say…)
By: Adele Galey EVERYTHING BEGAN AT THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD... About a year ago, I arrived in Chile with my back pack, a big smile on my face, and a lot of motivation. I was at a transitioning moment in my life. I was asking myself a lot of questions about what...
Diversity & Inclusion
Research Says: Joint Evaluations Curb Gender Bias
Study: When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation (Harvard Business School, Bohnet, Van Green, Bazerman, 2012) Finding: Joint evaluations for senior level positions might be the ticket to overcoming gender bias and stereotypical...
Research Says: Volunteer to Juice Your Career
Study: Volunteer to Juice Your Career (Forbes, 2012, Hewlett) Finding: Volunteering is a win-win situation with potential to provide a needed spark to a stagnant career. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not...
Research Says: If You Want The Top Job, Learn The Interview Techniques
Study: Why you didn't land the top job (CBS News, 2011, Weisul) Finding: Many job seekers at all levels don't understand what the hiring managers are actually looking for in the interview process, and because of this they tend to emphasize the wrong characteristics...
