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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...

Do Women Really Have Effective Communication Skills?

Do Women Really Have Effective Communication Skills?

Women are great communicators... aren't we? Well, it depends on what you think the most successful aspect of communication really is. Mary hits it right on the nose. Good communicators, and powerful people, are excellent listeners. Effective communications skills...

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...

Intentions vs Goals: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Personal Success

Intentions vs Goals: The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Personal Success

Ever found yourself wondering about the effectiveness of your goals and how they align with your overarching life ambitions? ‘Intentions vs goals’ is not a competition. Both are important to your overall success, but most of us pay way too much attention to goals and...

Reframing Change Management Theory as an Act of Creation

Reframing Change Management Theory as an Act of Creation

As a technology and marketing professional, an executive coach and a human recovering from trauma, I have studied change ever since I can remember. In fact, change and transformation have become my personal way of life and nothing gives me more pleasure than helping...

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Leadership

Fearlessness: The Key To Effective Feedback

Feedback is so important to our careers and effectiveness, and yet it freaks so many of us out. What can we do to get better at giving and receiving feedback? - InPower Editors When you think about it, giving and receiving feedback is pretty much all communication is....

Women Leaders: It’s (still) Not Easy Being ‘Grit’

It's still not easy for a woman to have an assertive management style without repercussions. Leslie helps us see this challenge for what it is. How do you manage it? - InPower Editors Earlier this year, my partner and I interviewed 28 women leaders about their styles...

Leaders Make Time For Conversations

Sometimes it's the simple things that have the biggest impact on our effectiveness  - InPower Editors Many people in the past week have provided me with appreciative feedback about my recent Ideas & Advice post. I wrote about a friend who has joined a new company...

Women in Leadership

Leadership, the Imposter Syndrome, and Being REAL

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...

Is Stress Good For You?

Is Stress Good For You?

  When Stress Can Actually Be a Good Thing “I’m so stressed!”“This is so stressful!”“I don’t need stress in my life right now!” These commonly heard phrases all point to the idea that stress (and the difficult people who cause it) is something negative that needs to...

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Career Advice

5 Things You Can Do To Help Your Company – Leadership Right Now

5 Things You Can Do To Help Your Company – Leadership Right Now

In recognition of the fact that a company with women in roughly 30% of its leadership tend to produce healthier and stronger performing companies, there are lots of good programs out there trying to help women. But should we really wait for HR to come up with a great program?

Seriously – it’s not about the special programs. It’s about you and me and what we do every day to create the culture we live in – and to create a culture that welcomes the gifts women bring into the leadership ranks. Culture is created by the behaviors we tolerate and those we don’t. This doesn’t just apply to women.

Men and women both bear responsibility for helping lead their companies and create a strong culture – no matter what their title is.

Personally what can we do?

Do Hard: The Most Important Mentoring Tips For Women In Leadership

Do Hard: The Most Important Mentoring Tips For Women In Leadership

Much is written about how few women make it into the top leadership positions. The reasons are complex and multilayered, so there is much to write. But I consistently find several mentoring tips for women both maximally effective and minimally understood when I talk...

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Diversity & Inclusion

Ladies, What Are We Waiting For?

I’ve been watching the statistics and conversations on pay inequality and women’s leadership development. The more I read, the less inspired I am that the world will change as a result of this dialog.