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Dear Dana Workplace Advice: What’s the LinkedIn Best Practice to Follow Up With a Recruiter on LinkedIn?
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, our regular column to give you workplace advice and coaching. This question about LinkedIn best practices is informative if you're looking for a job or simply building out your business network. – Dana Theus Dear Dana: What is the protocol or...
November 15: The Brain State Model with Sarah Baca
What is the brain state model? And how can we use it for our success? A while back, I attended Sarah Baca's Brain State Model talk at the Agile 2015 Conference and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was able to take away from the discussion how I could best communicate and...
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...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Dealing With Difficult People At Work
Welcome to “Dear Dana”, our Friday column to give you workplace advice and coaching. Please write in and tell me about a frustration you’re facing at the office! – Dana Theus Dear Dana, I need help dealing with difficult people at work. I love my job. I’ve been with...
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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Q-and-A with Mary Davis Holt: The state of women in leadership
By: James daSilva I recently asked Mary Davis Holt about the book she co-authored, “Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking That Block Women’s Paths to Power,” and some of the general themes regarding women and workplace advancement. Holt is a...
Who’s the Character in My Character-Based Leadership Style?
I’ve been self-employed for a decade (more if you look closely), but it wasn’t until this year that I became an entrepreneur and began to see my leadership style shift closer to authenticity. What’s the change and why is it affecting my leadership style and character?...
Pitching Your Big Ideas
To advance in your career, you have to have good ideas, but if you can’t get people to pay attention to them, it doesn’t really matter. Research shows that when women speak up and champion themselves and their good ideas, they get ahead. If it’s so simple, why don’t...
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Women Leaders: It’s (still) Not Easy Being ‘Grit’
It's still not easy for a woman to have an assertive management style without repercussions. Leslie helps us see this challenge for what it is. How do you manage it? - InPower Editors Earlier this year, my partner and I interviewed 28 women leaders about their styles...
Break Your Rules, Create New Paradigms
I recently attended a meeting sponsored by Women’s Weekly, an organization that connects high accomplishing women in the Washington, D.C. area. Judith Wilson founded the organization, herself a highly accomplished leader in the D.C. business and nonprofit communities....
Do Your Research For the Job Search
Looking to make a change to your work-life status? You might be considering or ready for a return the workforce. The more fun-filled summer months could be reminding you that you want to downsize your career. Or you may be starting or continuing a job search after a...
Women in Leadership
Why Does Equal Pay Really Matter?
There is no question that women and minorities are not at salary parity with white males in our business culture. They are not. But the prevailing myth that this is an evil plot to oppress us doesn’t fly with me, because when you look under the covers of equal pay,...
Stocks, Bonds & Soccer Moms: 7 Steps to a Balanced Life [A Work-Life Book Review]
So many times when we're thinking about balancing our work-life ideas of success, we think about juggling the meetings and the soccer games, but we forget about the other important parts of our life - like finances! Christy enjoyed reading Michelle Perry Higgins'...
Calm Your Inner Voice for Work-Life Success
Too often work-life life seems overwhelming, but how much of that is under our control? Emily reminds us that most of it is ours to command. - InPower Editors When you write a book about women dominating in business, a funny thing happens. People call your bluff. And...
Diversity & Inclusion
Research Says: Encouraging Girls Is Key In Closing The Entrepreneurial Gender Gap
Study: Resolving the Entrepreneurship Gender Gap (Scott Shane, The Bloomberg BusinessWeek 2011) Finding: The entrepreneurial gender gap remains stagnant but encouraging young girls to pursue careers in business could foster growth. Note about The Woman Effect Research...
Research Says: Executive Committees Are Better Indicators Of Gender Diversity
Study: Where the Worlds Top Companies Stand: 20-First's Global Gender Balance Scorecard 2011 (Wittenberg-Cox, 20-First 2011) Finding: Executive committees are a much better indicator of true gender balance in corporate culture than board reports, and women's...
Research Says: Millennial Women Burn Out Early
Study: Millennial Women Burn Out Early (Forbes 2011) Finding: Studies show that Millenial women are reaching their corporate career peak at age 30 and burning out due to going non-stop from grade school straight into the corporate world. InPower Insight: Find time to...
