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How to Give Feedback by Asking Questions

How to Give Feedback by Asking Questions

Managers can read books, get trained, practice and plan, and still your employee may toss you something you don't anticipate. But you can handle it. The key is asking good questions and really listening. When you give feedback, you are a role model. They will...

Who Do You Work For (Really)?

Who Do You Work For (Really)?

I had lunch recently with a career coach who works for one of those big outplacement firms. She told me something that really opened my eyes. Whereas until about five years ago, many companies would include “career development” in their definition of employee...

The Gender Wealth Gap: Pay Gap Reframed

The Gender Wealth Gap: Pay Gap Reframed

For better or worse, the gender pay gap (currently at $0.77 per dollar) is now a fact of life we all seem to accept, sadly, as each equal pay day for different gender and racial demographics passes throughout the year. Given that our paychecks are not only necessary...

Leadership Through Conversations

Leadership Through Conversations

Sometimes the simple things are the most powerful. How often do you simply talk to the people you work with? How often are you human with them and invite their humanity out? John reminds us why leadership conversations are so important. - InPower Editors Two weeks...

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...

INSIGHT: Vision vs. Reality

INSIGHT: Vision vs. Reality

How much energy do you spend trying to push back reality? Many of us deplete ourselves unconsciously by fighting reality with vision, and then we wonder why the heck we’re so tired. What insight can we draw from this cycle? I know I can fall into this pit, even with...

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Leadership

5 Tips for Being a Leader to Your Employees

By: Mary Schaefer Do you simply manage the people who work for you – or do you truly lead? Consider utilizing what naturally engages human beings at work, like appreciation and a sense of being a meaningful part of something bigger than themselves. The result is an...

To-Be List for Aspiring Women Leaders

By: Angela Maiers I speak often to groups of aspiring young leaders. Typically, the question on their minds when I begin is "what do I need to DO to become a leader?" I quickly aim to change their orientation from what they must DO to what they must BE. Success in...

The Future Is Here – Where Are You?

We all know we’re living in interesting times as technology boils under the sea change in our economy, but it’s rare that we can see it very clearly. As a business person, it’s important to see such future trends clearly and this presentation by Mary Meeker, Wall...

Mentoring

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Career Advice

Real Life Monsters: 3 Career Lessons from a Bad Boss

Hopefully the biggest monsters you find on this Oct. 31st will be knocking on your door looking for candy, but sometimes a bad boss happens. When you find yourself working for someone who is insecure or over his or her own head it can make your job even harder. We...

When I Don’t Know What I Want, I Suck

When I Don’t Know What I Want, I Suck

For months I’ve been contemplating this big blog post about the importance on setting intentions for guiding your career development and life (without having to rely on coaches and other expensive experts.) After all, I wandered in the wilderness for decades before I...

3 Steps I Used To Find  Mentors To Catapult My Career

3 Steps I Used To Find Mentors To Catapult My Career

Young women often hear “get a mentor to get ahead!” Wondering what that advice is all about? Read on! – InPower Editors By: Joyce Akiko Are you a strong, ambitious young woman who wants more out of her life and career? A woman who knows she’s capable of making a huge...

Women in Leadership

Decoding Leadership Presence: 3 Steps to Confidence

Does someone with leadership presence always make a good leader? Can someone without presence lead effectively? Many career gurus will say leadership presence is essential to becoming a good, and ladder-climbing, leader. In my experience, however, many good leaders...

3 Tough Leadership Conversations Every Leader Must Face

3 Tough Leadership Conversations Every Leader Must Face

Everyone struggles with difficult conversations - just a little. Learning to have a tough conversation isn't just a leadership skill, it's a life skill. Learn it early and often. Do it with compassion and you help yourself, your business and the people you're having...

Tips for WorkLife Blending [VIDEO]

No matter how much “flexibility” we get in our office, we all struggle to get it all done in our worklife. This cross generational video discussion takes a look at the realities of worklife “blending” from the employee’s and employer’s point of view, and gives us all...

Diversity & Inclusion

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