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The Mute Button on Your Ego: How Active Listening Builds Respect
The Underrated Leadership Skill: How Active Listening Builds Respect and Power Active listening skills are a communication hack for all kinds of professional and personal situations. It is one of the most effective skills a leader can develop to improve their...
Every Leadership Vision is a Change Management Vision
Key Takeaways for Leaders Vision isn't a prediction, it's a direction: Stop trying to predict the future. Instead, use your leadership vision to intentionally guide your team away from the status quo and towards a better, shared future. It's about aligning everyone...
Employee Engagement Hack: Why Empowerment is More Than a Buzzword
Employee empowerment is a powerful strategy for cutting to the core of the challenges associated with employee engagement, particularly employee retention and development. Want to achieve organizational effectiveness and foster a thriving workplace? Learn to empower...
Managing a Polarized Workforce Without Abandoning Your Principles
Key Takeaways Successfully managing a polarized workforce–including deciding whether to take public stances–requires a crucial mindset shift: move away from trying to align personal beliefs and instead focus on aligning teams around shared professional objectives and...
Why Crazy Attracts Crazy
Key Takeaways: Life tends to magnetize the energy we emit, so if your mind is spinning in “crazy” territory—frenzied, anxious, or chaotic—you can expect more of the same to show up in your life. Reality-TV drama teaches us something real: drama is not a natural...
Captain Obvious Gets A Lesson in Empathy
Key Takeaways: Empathy — Recognizing that stating the obvious might sting, Mary models curiosity and care over critique, inviting us to see what’s really behind someone’s choice before we comment. She reminds us that pointing out what everyone “should do” can feel...
Popular Posts
Unconscious Bias: The Key to Effective Gender Communication
In executive coaching (both women and men) I’ve often observed that two parallel stories about women and men in the workplace often coexist. First, “women and men communicate differently” is a truth that few bother to deny. Second, “men and women are treated equally...
Team Achievements Examples: Accomplishments When Applying for a Job
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, a column to give you career and workplace advice/coaching from executive coach, Dana Theus Dear Dana, I am updating my resume to apply for jobs. I read your article about "speaking accomplishments." I liked your advice and will apply it to how...
Middle Managers – The Critical (Weak) Link of Change Management
If you were in charge of your corporate culture and knew it needed fixing, would you fix it? Certainly anyone in charge of change management would want to say yes to this question, but as anyone who is actually in charge of corporate culture knows, it’s harder than it...
Leadership
The Mute Button on Your Ego: How Active Listening Builds Respect
The Underrated Leadership Skill: How Active Listening Builds Respect and Power Active listening skills are a communication hack for all kinds of professional and personal situations. It is one of the most effective skills a leader can develop to improve their...
Every Leadership Vision is a Change Management Vision
Key Takeaways for Leaders Vision isn't a prediction, it's a direction: Stop trying to predict the future. Instead, use your leadership vision to intentionally guide your team away from the status quo and towards a better, shared future. It's about aligning everyone...
Employee Engagement Hack: Why Empowerment is More Than a Buzzword
Employee empowerment is a powerful strategy for cutting to the core of the challenges associated with employee engagement, particularly employee retention and development. Want to achieve organizational effectiveness and foster a thriving workplace? Learn to empower...
Women in Leadership
Women: Picture a World Where We Are Winning And Not The Underdog. It’s Here Today.
Key Takeaways: Underdog narratives keep women small—we’re actually already winning: Despite media spotlighting pay gaps and boardroom absence, the author invites us to see that women are founding thriving companies, earning competitive salaries, and excelling in...
Live Your Own Fairy Tale by Negotiating Your Own Value
Key Takeaways: fairy tale isn’t just fantasy—it’s your own value story: The author encourages women to view the negotiation process like crafting their own fairy tale, reclaiming narrative control by defining and asserting what they’re truly worth. Negotiation goes...
Do You Suffer From “Sorry-itis?”
Key Takeaways: sorry can become a self-sabotage habit: The author shows how women often apologize reflexively—even when no harm was done—and how this "sorry‑itis" gradually teaches others to see us as less capable or confident. Owning your space means choosing...
Mentoring
Unlocking the Benefits of Reverse Mentoring
Mentoring is often thought of to help younger employees develop by passing on the wisdom of more experienced leaders. And it is! But that model ignores all the wisdom that many people have to give those of us who sit in leadership positions. And there is a lot that...
What Does a Mentor Do? A Comprehensive Guide for Mentors and Mentees
If you sometimes struggle to navigate the complex world of personal and professional growth, you're not alone. And that's the point. Many others have walked the path you're on, and you can learn from their successes and mistakes. Don't go it alone. Get a mentor to...
How to Ask Someone to Be Your Mentor: A Step-by-Step Guide
Key Takeaways: Organic Mentoring: Formal requests aren't always necessary; consistent seeking of advice can naturally cultivate mentoring relationships over time. Clarify Your Goals: Understand your career objectives and challenges before seeking mentorship to...
Career Advice
4 Traits That Fuel Success
Key Takeaways: success grows from a blend of grit and clarity: The author emphasizes that true success isn’t accidental—it’s cultivated through perseverance, wholehearted intention, and a clear vision for your path. Motivation flows best when nurtured by autonomy,...
7 Factors To Get Sponsored To The Top
Key Takeaways: Sponsored connections are earned, not just given: High-potential individuals must be proactive—actively pursue and nurture relationships, choose environments that value sponsorship, and demonstrate initiative to be seen and supported. Sponsored...
Leaders: How are You Taking Care of Yourself?
Key Takeaways: leaders must treat self-care not as a “nice-to-have” but as mission-critical—prioritizing personal well-being enables clarity, presence, and sustained impact. Setting clear boundaries around time, energy, and availability—like scheduled breaks and...
Interviews
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Diversity & Inclusion
Iron Man vs. Athena for CEO – Leadership Battle of the Sexes?
Key Takeaways: The Battle of the Sexes in Leadership: Traditional leadership models often favor masculine traits, but modern perspectives recognize the value of integrating both masculine and feminine qualities for effective leadership. Desirable Leadership Traits:...
If You Have to Fight, Shoot Like a Girl
Key Takeaways: “Shoot like a girl” means lead with grit, heart, and skill. MJ Hegar’s story redefines what it means to be tough—not by acting like the guys, but by showing up fully as a woman who can fly, fight, and stand her ground under fire, both in combat and in...
Why The Woman Effect? Men are Helping Us
Key Takeaways: Work-life balance is evolving into work-life partnership. Many successful women are thriving not because they’ve mastered a solo juggle, but because they’ve built supportive partnerships—especially at home—with men who share the load, often in ways that...
