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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...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Career Planning in the Age of Digital Disruption
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, our regular 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! Today's topic is career planning! – Dana Theus Dear Dana: You wrote a post...
5 Employee Development Trends in Human Capital Management
As a business leader, you want to stay on top of the latest trends in employee development and retention. The rapidly evolving human capital management (“HCM”) field is full of innovation and change, and there are some great ideas out there you can adapt to your own...
Lighten Your Soul at Work: How to Declutter Your ToDo List
How do you plan to lighten your soul in the new year? Do you look forward to a new year with anticipation and hope? Or is it more like dread? My clients often tell me that even if they’re excited about the challenges on the horizon in the coming year, they’re...
How To Psyche Yourself Up For Difficult Conversations
By: Mary Schaefer What do you do when you’re really ticked off A client asked me for coaching to help deal with having difficult conversations a colleague. The colleague made false accusations, talked about him behind his back and micromanaged. Overall he made him...
The Woman Effect: TEDx MassAveWomen Video & The Research Behind It
On December 3, 2012 I had the honor of speaking to a group of powerful women in Washington DC at a TEDx event, TEDxMassAveWomen. I’m very excited because I’ve long wanted to distill down what InPower Women's about, into a simple but powerful video, and this gave me...
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Leadership
5 or 6 Coping Strategies for When You Don’t Feel Heard
It happens to all of us. We speak up and - crickets. A guy with our idea? Yay! Lots of kudos and discussion. Don't get angry, get smart when this happens to you. Learn coping strategies to lead through the injustice. - InPower Editors Ever have a really interesting...
The Secrets to Empowered Leadership – Turn The Ship Around (Book Review)
Many women are praised for having an intuitive handle on empowering those who work for them. Whether women are naturally good at this skill or not, true empowerment is the most challenging leadership style to master. Last month I read a book, Turn the Ship Around,...
Employee Turnover: 5 Phrases That Send Your People Scurrying For The Door
Words are powerful communicators of attitudes that can build people up or tear them down. As a leader, your words carry more weight than you realize, and you need to be careful you're not parroting things that are driving people to leave. Employee turnover is...
Mentoring
Do Hard: The Most Important Mentoring Tips For Women In Leadership
Much is written about how few women make it into the top leadership positions. The reasons are complex and multilayered, so there is much to write. But I consistently find several mentoring tips for women both maximally effective and minimally understood when I talk...
4 Things Women Need To Know About Mentors
Having a well-placed, successful mentor can be the difference between success and failure on the leadership track – but it is definitely more an art than a science for the mentor and the mentee. I recently started hosting a radio show interviewing CEOs of...
Why You Should Cultivate a Leadership Mentoring Style
Someone once gave me the greatest compliment. She said, “Since you’re my mentor I think you can help me with this.” Until that moment I had no idea I was her mentor! From that day forward, I started paying more attention to my interactions with her, being more clear...
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Career Advice
Who am I? A Fresh Approach to Personal Brand Identity
Want to go places in your career? A lot of people will give you advice about your personal brand identity when you tell them you’re looking for new opportunities. In our socially visible culture, personal branding is that elusive skill that requires us to present...
Myth #1 for Women Entrepreneurs: Corporate America Has to Change for You to Succeed
We humans tell ourselves a lot of stories. Don't let the stories confuse you about what matters to your success. Mary gives us a great perspective on why when you read about women not making it in Corporate America, you should not believe this has anything to do with...
Wake Up To Your Fluid Career Development Opportunity
Happy Valentines Day! This year we wanted to give you a new way to love yourself, by sharing a career development perspective designed to help you take the pressure off yourself, take more credit for what you’ve achieved and strategize more productively about where...
Women in Leadership
Research Says: Overcoming The Backlash Effect
Study: Overcoming the Backlash Effect: Self- Monitoring and Women's Promotions (Olivia A. O'Neill, PhD and Charles O'Reilly, Stanford Graduate School of Business 2011) Finding: Learning to self-monitor your masculine and feminine leadership style characteristics, and...
Why Women in Leadership Must Change Our Narrative
With a virtual thud for women in leadership everywhere, the Catalyst 2012 Census of Fortune 500 companies hit my e-mailbox: NEW YORK (December 11, 2012)—Despite high-profile news about gender gaps, equal pay, and women on boards, once again the needle barely budged...
Unintended Consequences Matter: Learning to See Bystanderism and Microaggression as Contributors to Employee Turnover in the Workplace
Efforts to increase diversity in our workplaces has been dismally slow over the last few decades, despite business initiatives, research and even expansions of the very definition of diversity. Like many, I find this frustrating. I find it especially frustrating that...
Diversity & Inclusion
Research Says: How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace
How to Stop Mean Girls in the Workplace (Harvard Business Review, 2009, Medina) Finding: Mean girls and workplace bullying are having detrimental affects on companies' productivity and bottom line. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This gender research study...
Why You Want a Seat at the Table Early in Your Career
I won’t pretend that I see every trend or can put my finger on THE solution to how to achieve gender parity in leadership, however, I do notice a few things I believe can help women gain important perspectives. One thing that’s popped up in my practice...
Damned if you do…. Unpacking Gender Bias in the Workplace
Over a decade ago, when I began writing about women in leadership and gender bias, I was very hopeful. Up to that point I had, what I thought, was a good experience working in mixed gender workplaces. I felt welcome and generally appreciated as a female leader. When I...
