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Dear Dana Workplace Advice: How Do I Start A Career Move?

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: How Do I Start A Career Move?

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 Currently, I am working for a software company that makes software...

Stop Serving the Feedback Sandwich

Stop Serving the Feedback Sandwich

By: Michael Bungay Stangier Asking for feedback shouldn’t be seen as a negative thing, as it shows an employee is engaged and looking for constructive criticism. Unfortunately, many people struggle to really understand how to effectively give (and receive) feedback....

4 Things Women Need To Know About Mentors

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...

The Upside of Office Politics

The Upside of Office Politics

Sometimes my clients start falling into a pattern, and it gives me an opportunity to look more deeply at common challenges we all face. Lately, too many of my clients have fallen into the “victim of office politics” trap. This looks different for each person, but in...

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Leadership

How Women Can Balance Strong Leadership With Authenticity

As women, we face unique challenges as leaders, whether we work in the corporate world or as business owners. There seems to be a large chasm between female leaders who too easily sacrifice authority, and iron-fisted women who never budge once their minds are made up....

10 Reasons to be an Empowered Manager

By: Mary Schaefer Why it’s worth it to take your management skills to the next level, as a manager of people I’ve been conducting training on manager/employee communication for years. In one class last year I heard the same phrase over and over and it really struck...

Will You Choose To Lead From Who You Are?

Imagine:  What it would be like to grow up in a family that is always behind on their bills. To live in a home that could be featured on the television program HOARDERS. To have your home burn to the ground and lose everything when you were in grade-school.  Then live...

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Career Advice

Don’t Ignore Your Career Path Nudges

Do you know what your next career opportunity looks like? Look deep into your heart and soul and you'll find all kinds of dreams there waiting to lead you to your next - amazing - career opportunity. - InPower Editors “I don’t know what I want to do next” is a comment...

The REAL Key to Connection

We know that we're supposed to treat others with respect, but sometimes we forget we deserve it too. Emily reminds us how very powerful this gift can be. - InPower Editors In my career, I’ve been lucky. Call it the right place. The right time. Fate. Chance. Who knows....

Maintain Boundaries: Treat Your Manager Like Your Client

There is more in common between a consultant and employee than you may think. I have worked in both roles, and I think I wear my consultant hat more often as an employee. Consultants have a sense of boundaries that helps one focus on work and think beyond assigned...

Women in Leadership

Working Moms Have Mommy Energy! [VIDEO INTERVIEW]

Working Moms Have Mommy Energy! [VIDEO INTERVIEW]

I’m excited to interview Lizzy McGrory, who turned her own struggles to be a successful working mom into a coaching practice that helps working moms find their power from the inside out. She’s written a book about it, too, which is full of practical tips, advice and...

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

Research Says: Joint Evaluations Curb Gender Bias

  Study:  When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation (Harvard Business School, Bohnet, Van Green, Bazerman, 2012) Finding: Joint evaluations for senior level positions might be the ticket to overcoming gender bias and stereotypical...

Research Says: Volunteer to Juice Your Career

  Study: Volunteer to Juice Your Career (Forbes, 2012, Hewlett) Finding: Volunteering is a win-win situation with potential to provide a needed spark to a stagnant career. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not...

Research Says: When Girls Succeed, So Does Society

Study: To Get Her There: When Girls Succeed, So Does Society (Girl Scouts) Finding: The potential of young women and what they can contribute to the world is not being recognized and nurtured in their formative years. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This...