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5 Steps to Taming Your Emotional Triggers
We welcome Dr. Marcia Reynolds back to the site to provide insight into ways of understanding and releasing your emotional triggers. Learn about Marcia's book, The Discomfort Zone and how to turn discomfort into a leadership asset. – InPower Editors How to Tame...
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)?
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
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
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
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...
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Leading in the Age of AI
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Leadership Is An Inside Job
This weekend I took my daughter and her friend to see the new movie “Oz The Great and Powerful” based on the classic book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. The occupational hazard of having a mom who is a leadership coach is that you don’t get to actually just eat the...
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...
Women in Leadership
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...
Finding Purpose in Your Fab 40’s Video 2
No more midlife crisis! In Power Women's series, "Finding Purpose in Your Fabulous 40's" will get you unstuck and loving life. In this second video, Carin Rockind, founder of #ThisIs40, the movement for women to feel free and fabulous, unveils her 4 step process to...
5 Steps to Getting Back In Control
Sometimes we feel yanked around by our work—our life—or both. We can’t get on top of the pile. We can’t even stop to catch our breath. The list of stuff we’re not doing crushes the list of stuff we’ve accomplished. We can’t breathe and feel helpless and out of...
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Women Leaders: Communicate With Grit And Grace
“I know what I want to say, but HOW do I say it without getting ignored or killed?” In my experience as an executive coach, this question stymies women leaders as much as any other issue. Why? Because organizations often require women to operate within a painfully...
What To Do If You’re Worried About Getting Laid Off
Here it comes: year-end when a dearth in 2016 financials start showing up in 2017 budgets as lower head counts. Is that likely to be you? Layoffs at Christmas make no sense emotionally, but financially they do for the people planning next year’s expenses. If you’re...
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...
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