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3 Steps I Used To Find Mentors To Catapult My Career
Young women often hear “get a mentor to get ahead!” Wondering what that advice is all about? Read on! – InPower Editors By: Joyce Akiko Are you a strong, ambitious young woman who wants more out of her life and career? A woman who knows she’s capable of making a huge...
Does “Life Purpose” Really Equal Life Happiness?
At InPower Coaching we believe that having purpose is critical to both happiness and effectiveness at life - but what if you haven't found your life's calling? The thing you plan to devote every waking breath to forever? If you haven't found a "life purpose" are you...
Want to Attract Talent? Be Talent!
Someone recently asked me for my secret to making a good hire and attracting talented employees. I had to admit that I’ve never considered myself particularly skilled at hiring, even though I’ve made some stellar hires - if I do say so myself - so I had to dig deep...
October 11: Vreneli Stadelmaier discusses imposter syndrome
We hear that women suffer from the imposter syndrome, but what exactly is it? Here is Vreneli's succinct description of the imposter syndrome: The first time you get driving lessons, it is very exciting so you will feel insecure. That makes sense. You have never...
Research Summary: Women in the Workplace (McKinsey, Lean In)
Study:Women in the Workplace (McKinsey & Lean In, 2016) Finding: Women face an uneven playing field in the workplace. Women get less access to the people and opportunities that advance careers and are disadvantaged in many of their daily interactions. (Also...
Career Planning Advice: Your Career Is a Journey – 4 Ways to Not Get Lost
Career planning advice should always start with, "You should always be doing career planning!" We all need this reminder because too often, you’ll get your dream job and think you’ve achieved your final goal. Then you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy what you achieved...
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3 Reasons Good Ideas Aren’t Good Enough
There’s a particular skill that middle managers who will become more than middle managers learn, and it’s not something that is taught in business school. It’s one of the reasons that we all benefit from good mentors, who really understand “how things work.” This...
Gendership: A Guy’s View
When I interviewed Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft, on the subject of leadership, we also had a great conversation about the role he sees gender and diversity playing in modern organizations. I listened to understand Gendership – the partnership of...
The Essence of Leadership – Interview with Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft
When you meet Microsoft’s Chief Security Officer for the first time – a man who spent over two decades in super secret intelligence and law enforcement before taking on one of the most challenging commercial assignments on the planet – you don’t get what you expect....
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Career Advice
4 Ways to Increase Daily Productivity (and Save More Time)
You don’t need additional hours in a day to get more done. How do some entrepreneurial leaders get more done in a day than the rest of us? Here are four simple strategies, used by the world’s most successful people, that will increase your productivity and save you an...
10 Mindsets That Undercut Happiness
Positive thinking can save us from hell, but often it's not enough to just "be happy" out of sadness. Today Paula takes us deeper into the limiting beliefs to help us crawl out. - InPower Editors For the past four years, I have been studying, writing, and talking...
10 Tips for Taking Some Real Time Off Before the New Year
The holidays are bearing down! Hurry! Run! Work late to finish that todo list before you enjoy your family. . . . or not. Maybe you should just go enjoy your family and take a break. Good advice from young executives to chill out and enjoy the holidays. It's good for...
Women in Leadership
Women, Burnout and Mindfulness
Burnout isn't working for anyone in our business culture - especially not women, who so easily burn out from family + work duties. Emily raises our consciousness with this post to remind us that we have the choice. - InPower Editors Two years ago I wrote about a...
Why Women Don’t Make Less than Men [Infographic]
We hear a lot about the pay gap and there certainly is one. The official data says women earn $0.77 to the dollar that men do, but what we're learning is that the pay gap isn't all about discrimination. The choices women make matter too. Nothing is all or nothing! -...
Jumping The Corporate Ship? 3 Self-Employed Survival Tips
There are plenty of the Debbie Downers who look at the exodus of women from the corporate ranks and see bad news. If your priority is getting women in to socially, politically and economically powerful positions, this IS bad news. But what if you just want to have a...
Diversity & Inclusion
Research Says: Women Are The World’s Most Powerful Demographic
Study: Women of Tomorrow: U.S. Multicultural Insights (Neilson Consultants, 2012) Finding: U.S. women are optimistic, expect to be earning a greater percentage of their household income in the future and feel in control of their household spending. InPower Insight:...
The Business Case For Gender Balanced Leadership
I have been honored with a regular writing gig at the Smartblog on Leadership - an extention of the Smartbrief empire. This was my first post as a contributing author and it generated a lot of interesting comments (read them here). The comments reminded me that there...
Research Says: Top-Team Diversity Equals Greater Financial Gain
Study: Is There A Payoff From Top-Team Diversity? (McKinsey 2012, Thomas Barta, Makus Kleiner, Tilo Neumann) Finding: Companies with diverse executive boards have notably higher earnings and returns on equity. InPower Insight: Increase the diversity of your executive...
