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What Is Personal Power?

What Is Personal Power?

There are many kinds of leadership and power and I choose to focus on personal power for myself and with my clients – I call it InPower. InPower is that special ability leaders can develop to free themselves from the culture around them so they can choose where and how they place their energy in service to the world and themselves. Our dominant culture doesn’t train us to see InPower and many can’t appreciate it until you do.

Ladies, Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First [Work-life 101]

Ladies, Put Your Own Oxygen Mask On First [Work-life 101]

We KNOW we're supposed to take care of ourselves, but we also still too-often put ourselves at the end of our todo list - if not last. Andria gives us some serious reminders of the price we may pay when we don't manage our work-life to invest in ourselves. - InPower...

Unconscious Bias: The Key to Effective Gender Communication

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...

End Your Relationship With Dignity

End Your Relationship With Dignity

Long-term relationships and marriages end and part ways for many reasons. Rarely do they end for no reason. If the reasons are not clear and understood by both parties, including the one choosing to leave, grudges and guilt will destroy good memories. The bad breakup...

INSIGHT: People Problems – Who’s Fault Is It Anyway?

INSIGHT: People Problems – Who’s Fault Is It Anyway?

I've got a client (we'll call her Jenny) who's got some real people problems. She believes her boss is threatened by her and most of her direct reports want her job. Based on what she's told me, she has reason to believe that these people would all love to see her...

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Leadership

Can You Lead Through Discomfort?

Can You Lead Through Discomfort?

  When you want to make things happen and have an impact, leadership is one of the best ways to do it. Why do some of us shy away from becoming leaders? Henna gets real and reminds us that sometimes being a good leader isn't always a comfortable place to be....

Creative Leadership

Sometimes leadership seems like a mystery. We know “command and control” rarely works to motivate people, and even more rarely allows women to lead authentically. We like this insight from Dana to help you round out your leadership style. – InPower Editors I recently...

The Shortest Distance To Higher Profits

  “The shortest distance between two points is under construction.” Leo Aikman Getting from A to B always seems so simple until you encounter the devil in the details. We learn in B school that profits come from high demand, meeting customer needs, low costs,...

Women in Leadership

Speaking a Truth that Hurts

  Whether you are typically cautious or assertive when it comes to stating your opinions without being asked, it is likely you shy away from telling a friend, colleague or family member something that you fear could hurt. The feedback could be as simple as...

Embrace the Power of Choice

Embrace the Power of Choice

Feel stuck?  Choose to become unstuck. Have you ever felt stuck in a job, with a daycare, or just in a bad situation?  It's a sinking feeling when you feel like there's no way out. But we have good news!  In this month’s Working Mom chat Dana and Lizzy will talk about...

The [Right] Way to Make Waves at Work

Do you ever think you can't make change happen because you don't have the title and the authority? Think again and find inspiration in this chat with Emily and Patti - two changemakers of the first order! - InPower Editors Kindness may not be the first word we...

Mentoring

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Career Advice

How Managers Can Improve Employee Engagement & Retention

How Managers Can Improve Employee Engagement & Retention

By: Patricia Hughes Organizations are experiencing another perfect storm in recruiting and hiring. A combination of decreasing employee engagement, increasing turnover and fewer skilled candidates available, is making it tough for companies to get the right resources....

Dear Dana Career Advice: Should You Bother with the Top Job Boards?

Dear Dana Career Advice: Should You Bother with the Top Job Boards?

Continuing our New Year/New Career theme, this inquiry on top job boards is perfectly timed. 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 looking for a job for several months and...

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: 4 Tips for Changing Careers

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: 4 Tips for Changing Careers

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 TheusDear Dana,My situation is that I am embarking on a second career....

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