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INSIGHT: Intentions Solve Overwhelm
Key Takeaways: Intentions help cut through overwhelm: When the chaos of daily life clouds your vision, setting clear intentions brings perspective, helping you distinguish what truly matters. Intentions activate your intuitive mind: Instead of relying solely on logic,...
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:...
The Dirty Little Secret About Employee Engagement
Key Takeaways: Employee Engagement Requires Two-Way Communication: True employee engagement is not just about top-down directives; it thrives on authentic, two-way conversations between managers and employees. Policies Should Facilitate Personalized Work Approaches:...
Executive Mindset: Advice for Women Leaders to Navigate the Glass Ceiling
Key Takeaways: Executive Mindset as a Leadership Foundation: Developing an executive mindset is crucial for women aiming to break the glass ceiling. It involves thinking strategically, managing both the business and its people, and demonstrating judgment and influence...
6 Steps to Authentic Self Confidence for Women
Key Takeaways: Understanding Confidence: Confidence isn't about perfection; it's about knowing what to expect and how to handle it. Building confidence involves learning from experiences and practicing responses until you find what works. Identifying Areas for Growth:...
The Antidote for Toxic Corporate Culture
Key Takeaways: Integrity as the Antidote to Toxic Corporate Culture: In environments where negativity and dysfunction prevail, introducing integrity can act as a transformative force. By upholding commitments and fostering trust, leaders can counteract pervasive...
Popular Posts
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...
Career Advice: Examples of Team 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...
How to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome: Make it Your Best Friend
Mary finally received her promotion! After years of positioning herself and working on her personal brand she finally achieved her goal and had been put in charge of a product division for a major manufacturer. Predictably, our first executive coaching call in her new...
Leadership
Reclaiming Leadership: A Manifesto
Key Takeaways: Leadership isn’t reserved for the C-suite—it’s a daily, personal choice to stand in your power and be a force for positive change, wherever you are. We've let go of our dreams and power too easily—traded in our passion for the illusion of security, and...
October 2024 Leadership Development Carnival
It’s time for another installment of the Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to Weaving Influence and the Lead Change for organizing some great posts from some remarkable leadership writers. If you're new to blog Carnivals, these represent a collection of...
Feedback Coaching: How to Get Results with “Tough Love”
Key Takeaways: Balance empathy with clarity: While empathy is crucial, over-empathizing can prevent leaders from delivering clear feedback. Leaders need to ensure their feedback is understood without being overly soft or accommodating. Effective leaders use a spectrum...
Mentoring
What are Long-Term Goals for Your Career and Why You Should Set Them
If you’re focused on achieving your highest potential, you need to set long-term goals for your career. In any situation, goal-setting gives you clarity and direction, which helps you stay focused. In career planning and strategy, however, goals are the critical piece...
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. Key...
Five Steps to Start A Mentoring Circle
Did you know that according to this 2011 Linked In survey of 1,000 women professionals, while 80% said having a mentor was important, only 20% actually had a mentor? In my work as an executive coach and speaker, I notice how easy it is for many women to second-guess...
Interviews
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Career Advice
The Cost of Analysis Paralysis
Most of the time when I tell people that I am researching women and business, the conversation wanders into what I now think of as “the analysis paralysis” conundrum in which we try to suss out the why’s of women’s place in society. Here are common themes that come...
Soap vs. You: A Leader’s Guide to Branding
Back in the old days, companies did branding and people did leading. Not so today. Now-a-days if you want to get into, or stay in, leadership and other positions of influence you must have personal branding. In our overwhelmed world, brands – both personal and...
3 Ways to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed
Many times the voice in our head holds us back. So it is quite often the voice in our head that needs to give us permission to move forward. Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, Elizabeth's advice will give you permission to do this more often! - InPower Editors...
Women in Leadership
How Emotional Intelligence in Leadership is a Strength, Not a Weakness
Key Takeaways: Emotional intelligence isn’t a trait you either have or don’t—it’s something you can lose and reclaim. For me, rediscovering it after burnout completely changed my leadership, motherhood, and happiness. Self-awareness is the first step toward...
The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make Receiving Feedback
Key Takeaways: Receiving feedback as a woman often means managing style critiques, not just performance issues: Women are disproportionately given feedback about how they behave—not just what they achieve. This makes receiving feedback more personal and often more...
Women Getting to the Top: Change Culture vs Change Behavior
Key Takeaways: Cultural shift requires both top-down and bottom-up momentum: True change happens when organizations address bias at the systemic level and when ambitious women step up as visible examples of leadership. One mid-level manager can’t do it alone, but many...
Diversity & Inclusion
Breaking the Mold: Thriving as Women in the Workplace Built for Men
Key Takeaways The workplace needs to evolve to support women: Traditional workplace structures, designed with men in mind, often fail to accommodate the needs of women in the workplace, hindering their advancement. Women bring unique strengths to leadership: Qualities...
Which Double Standard for Women Applies To You? All of Them?
Double standard for women in leadership is an age-old problem, but it turns out that it's not just a problem for leaders; it's a problem for all women in the workplace. Key Takeaways: Numerous Double Standards: The article highlights the plethora of double standards...
Cultural Change: An Update on Workforce Diversity
As I’ve begun to explore the interpersonal dynamics of workplace discrimination more closely, I have gone back to update my own understanding of workforce diversity data and what it tells us about the the demographic makeup of the modern workforce. I have been...
