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Speaking Truth To Power – Why Leaders Keep Fools Nearby

Speaking Truth To Power – Why Leaders Keep Fools Nearby

In researching Speaking Truth to Power to help people use their own deep wisdom to advance their careers, I stumbled on this great article by James O'Toole on Harvard Business Review called A Culture of Candor. O'Toole gave several examples of corporate cultures that...

Sponsor vs. Mentor – 3 Tips for Attracting a Sponsor

Sponsor vs. Mentor – 3 Tips for Attracting a Sponsor

Is “Executive Sponsor” is the New “Mentor” for Women Leaders? The missing piece in women's advancement strategies into leadership? Mentorship helps us be effective, but it’s not as helpful at helping us get a job as sponsorship is. Dana takes a look at what is means...

Year End: The Psychology of Closure

Year End: The Psychology of Closure

Have you ever noticed that once you can tell a story about something, it’s in the past?  The year’s end is upon us and I observe my clients reaching for closure to make sense of another time of upheaval in the world. I encourage everyone to engage the psychology...

What’s Wrong With Women’s Empowerment?

What’s Wrong With Women’s Empowerment?

What’s wrong with women’s empowerment? Nothing and everything. - Click To Tweet At its best, women’s empowerment programs are an organizational (or social) recognition that cultural barriers diminish women’s chances to succeed and make an attempt to counteract those...

Can Empathy Help You Overcome Bias?

Can Empathy Help You Overcome Bias?

Almost everyone deals with bias, and there are many strategies to deal with it, but we love Dana and Kate’s takes on InPowered strategies for confronting bias with empathy and humility. Enjoy a not-so-obvious-but-very-effective strategy to deal with awkward and unfair...

Career Audit: How Much Worklife Bliss Did You Achieve?

Career Audit: How Much Worklife Bliss Did You Achieve?

Where Has “Normal” Career Planning Gotten You? How are you doing in your career? Are you where you want to be? Is everything hunky dory? Do you end every day at work glad to be alive? If every answer isn’t an enthusiastic YES! Then it’s time to do a career audit and...

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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...

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...

Leadership

Kindness In Leadership

Kindness In Leadership

A stereotypical leader is not always "kind," yet kindness can be one of the most important leadership qualities when it comes to building employee loyalty and motivation. Being kind also doesn't mean bing a sap. Know the difference to be a great leader. - InPower...

A Historical Perspective to Women in Leadership

A Historical Perspective to Women in Leadership

For women in leadership perspective is everything. Even though sometimes reading the day’s headlines or encountering the accidental sexist at the water-cooler can make you feel like women aren’t getting ahead in leadership, this little retrospective may give you hope...

Radically Redefining Leadership, Lessons From My Daughter

Radically Redefining Leadership, Lessons From My Daughter

Out of the mouths of 7 year olds . . . Who says that leaders have to do it all - perfectly? Too often we talk ourselves out of taking on more responsibility because we don't want "that" job. Mitch reminds us that we have control of what leadership looks like to us. -...

Mentoring

Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?

Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?

There are many ways to get stuck in your career. You can find yourself feeling unmotivated, frustrated at a lack of progress, confused about what your goals should be, or uncertain about how to motivate your team, manage your workload or get your mojo back. When you...

Mentee vs. Protégé: Is there a Difference?

Mentee vs. Protégé: Is there a Difference?

When you’re mentoring someone, what do you call the person to whom you’re imparting all your wisdom? Mentee seems the easy, opposite of mentor, but I don’t like the term. Putting an “ee” on something makes it sound like something you’re “doing to” someone else. ...

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Career Advice

Wake Up To Your Fluid Career Development Opportunity

Wake Up To Your Fluid Career Development Opportunity

Happy Valentines Day! This year we wanted to give you a new way to love yourself, by sharing a career development perspective designed to help you take the pressure off yourself, take more credit for what you’ve achieved and strategize more productively about where...

Leadership Tips: Don’t (S)mother Your Staff

Leadership Tips: Don’t (S)mother Your Staff

Welcome to our newest blogger, Mary Brodie! Mary's day job is at HP but she has a lot more going on than that! We love her leadership tips and "insights from the trenches" of leadership and hope you do too! Welcome Mary below. - InPower Editors I'm often told that I...

How to Foster Productivity Through Communication and Transparency

How to Foster Productivity Through Communication and Transparency

By:David Hassell I left the first company that I founded. My co-founder and I had different values, and without realizing it, we created two disconnected cultures within the same company. This is a common problem within startups. In growing organizations, employees...

Women in Leadership

6 Dynamics of Transformation – for Your Business and Your Life

6 Dynamics of Transformation – for Your Business and Your Life

Good leaders need to be reasonable managers, able to make sure the important stuff gets done from day to day, but a true leader’s potential is discovered and exercised during times of business transformation. It is in those times that the leaders truly change the world.

3 Steps To Escape The Double Bind Of The Female Boss

3 Steps To Escape The Double Bind Of The Female Boss

Women make great leaders, but do they always make a great bosses? Yes, that’s a trick question. No one is a good boss because of their gender any more than because of their race, religion or geography of origin. But if you had a peek into my inbox over the last month,...

Diversity & Inclusion

The Game Is Rigged: Strategies for Overcoming Unconscious Bias

The Game Is Rigged: Strategies for Overcoming Unconscious Bias

When it comes to unconscious bias, the bad news is that the game is rigged–against women, people of color, introverts and others that don’t fit a certain “success” stereotype that is often male, white and extroverted. But the good news is, it’s not really a game so...

Women Have Always Been Great Leaders. Why Do We Need to Prove It?

Women Have Always Been Great Leaders. Why Do We Need to Prove It?

Women have always been great leaders. We just don’t talk or hear about them. Sometimes I’ll read articles about why women should be leaders, as if we need an argument upon argument to support women’s leadership. I have noticed that some of these articles focus on...