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Want to Inspire Your Team? Develop This Leadership Trait First

Want to Inspire Your Team? Develop This Leadership Trait First

Leaders must inspire team members to achieve their personal and professional best. Pep talks and motivational speeches can only go so far, and if you lack one trait in particular, they may not help you at all. A team of researchers from the graduate business school...

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: 3 Reasons For Negotiating A Job Offer

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: 3 Reasons For Negotiating A Job Offer

  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 Dear Dana, I just got a job offer within my company (in another...

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: My Boss Is The Problem

Dear Dana Workplace Advice: My Boss Is The Problem

Welcome to “Dear Dana”, our weekly 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 I recently got put on a team with a boss who is so negative that I’m feeling “infected” by...

3 Essential Tips To Ace Your Job Interview

3 Essential Tips To Ace Your Job Interview

Congratulations! You got the job interview! It’s totally normal to feel excited and anxious when you get the call or email. It’s also normal to want to dive into preparing, but before you do, take a pause and look at how much time you have to get ready. Use that time...

Dear Dana Career Coaching: Resume Advice

Dear Dana Career Coaching: Resume Advice

Q: If you have held multiple positions at the same company, is it better to list those separately or grouped together on your resume and highlight that you were promoted multiple times? - Curious in New York A: Generally speaking you want to optimize resume space so...

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Fearlessness: The Key To Effective Feedback

Feedback is so important to our careers and effectiveness, and yet it freaks so many of us out. What can we do to get better at giving and receiving feedback? - InPower Editors When you think about it, giving and receiving feedback is pretty much all communication is....

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....

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Remember: You Are Not Your Job

Remember: You Are Not Your Job

I know a woman who lost her job. She knew it was coming. After all, she was privy to the numbers. Moreover, she’d watched as colleagues went into the boss’ office one-by-one, only to emerge and pack up their things. Now it was her turn. In the days leading up to her...

6 Lessons Learned on the Work Life Jungle Gym

Sheryl Sandberg contributed many valuable insights to professional women in her book, Lean In. The one that hit me most squarely was her analogy of a career as a jungle gym instead of a ladder. Truer words have never been written, and I think this is a major...

Women Getting to the Top: Change Culture vs Change Behavior

By: Natalie Runyon I attended a dinner with senior executive women leaders in financial institutions a few weeks ago at which a question was asked about the quickest way to increase the number of women in the C-suite.  Very quickly, the consensus was to change the...

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