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What Is Transformational Leadership?
Popular culture is entranced with the idea of transformation. Just look at our blockbuster movies that feature all kinds of magic, relationships renewed and personal bests beat despite the odds. We love our stories of redemption and renewal, all of which celebrate the...
Confessions of a Reluctant Feminist: My Role In Perpetuating Workplace Discrimination
The lack of workforce diversity affects virtually every business. We need to figure out how to fight the kind of workplace discrimination that creates cultural uniformity in our businesses for two reasons. First, it’s the right thing to do; when more of our...
5 Tips for Networking Success
Networking success isn’t just about getting a new job, it’s an important leadership skill, which can help you do your job more effectively. The higher you go the less important it is that you be able to execute the technical details that your team takes care of, and...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Should I Return to a Toxic Corporate Culture?
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 Theus Hello Dana, [Note is abbreviated-ed.] Quite complicated and online...
Working Mother Advice: Back-to-School Tips & Tricks – Part 2
By: Anna Williams Last week in part 1 of our working mother advice mini-series, we talked about the challenge of juggling work, kids at home at the end of summer, and back-to-school prep all in the busy month of August. Here are a few more thoughts on getting ready...
Working Mom Advice: Back-to-School Tips & Tricks
In the U.S. labor force today, women comprise 47% of workers. Among mothers with children younger than 18, more than 75% have full-time careers. Being a working mom may be the norm nowadays, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy or stress-free, especially during seasons...
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Leadership
The Key To Being Adaptable
By: Susan Mazza If you want to be adaptable you must be willing to let go of the need to know the answer. Why? Because there is rarely one answer: that single right answer to the questions you are being asked and are asking or the right path through the challenges you...
How Virtual Managers Can Lead Effectively
By:Kristi Hedges Go into most companies these days and you’ll witness hand wringing around the complexities of managing a virtual workforce. Studies show that 80 percent of managers deal with dispersed teams, which may include managing people in remote locations,...
Need Career Advice? Exercise and Climb a Tree
There’s nothing like a great metaphor to make a point. I often look for metaphors that illustrate my mission to help women “Find the Work that Fits Your Life”, and I love one I just saw on the Levo League web site that equates building a career with climbing trees. In...
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Career Advice
6 Fail-Proof Ways to Give Yourself the Leverage to Succeed
By: Peter Voogd By applying the power of leverage to business, you can (with less effort) accomplish a lot more. Without it, you increase your risk of burnout and frustration, and limit your rewards. Put simply, leverage is all about multiplying gains and making...
Your Real Biological Clock
Timing is everything, right? It can be and when you're focused on achieving a major impact - that's meaningful to YOU - the best things start happening right now. Take inspiration from Paula's simple and powerful reminders. - InPower Editors I recently appeared on a...
How Do You Respond To Gender Discrimination & Bias?
What do you do in that moment where you see someone discriminating against you - or another woman? - Click To Tweet Sometimes you want to lash out at gender discrimination. Sometimes you're so flabbergasted you don't know what to say or do. Take some tips from...
Women in Leadership
Silencing the Inner Mean Girl
Do you ever feel stuck in your negative thoughts? Join the club! When we think about the future through the lens of the past it's easy to let negativity rule. Emily gives us some great insight into how to shut up your inner mean girl. - InPower Editors In my group...
Career Coaching for Your Inner Critic
We are all familiar with that little voice in our head that likes to sabotage our confidence - our inner critic. Henna gives some very practical advice for how to deal with her. - InPower Editors We all have an inner critic. She’s usually telling us: – “You’re not...
Women in STEM – Interview with a Female NASA Leader [VIDEO]
The stats still aren’t good for women in executive leadership, but they’re particularly poor in STEM careers (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math). Today at 3:30pm Eastern, Dana will interview Teresa Vanhooser, Deputy Director of NASA Marshall Space Flight...
Diversity & Inclusion
Research Says: Women Leaders Rank Higher Than Men
Study: A Study in Leadership: Women Do it Better Than Men (Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman – Zenger/Folkman 2012) Finding: This study of 7,280 leaders finds that women excel at 15 of 16 individual leadership characteristics, as judged by their peers, subordinates and...
The Paradox of “Women’s Leadership Training”
Our economy needs women in leadership. When women are more than tokens in leadership – representing over 30 percent of the team in diverse business specialties – their organizations perform demonstrably better. Not only are women naturally good leaders, showing the...
Research Says: SuperMoms are More Likely To Be Depressed
Study: Why SuperMoms Are More Likely To Be Depressed (Katrina Leupp, University of Washington at Seattle 2011) Finding: The strain to attain work life balance may be causing depression in some stay-at-home SuperMoms. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This...
