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Getting Ahead in 2018: Networking Secrets to Know Now
By Jessica Thiefels Networking can be hard, nervewracking, expensive and time-consuming. It can also afford you otherwise unavailable job opportunities and ultimately provide you with the tools you need to find success and stand out in your field. Especially as we...
Business Leaders – What Don’t Your Employees Tell You?
Bosses, Do you know what’s really going on in your organizations? According to the Speak Truth to Power Survey I fielded last month, no. You’re often not hearing what your people really think. According to my unscientific-but-interesting poll, almost half your...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Should I Return to a Toxic Corporate Culture?
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 Hello Dana, [Note is abbreviated-ed.] Quite complicated and online...
Women’s Empowerment Update: Progress in International Development
When Dana first announced The Woman Effect, which recognizes that gender balanced groups produce better results than gender-dominant groups, we noted that this philosophy was informing efforts to improve conditions for even the poorest countries. That was 5 years ago!...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: How Long Should You Stay At A Job?
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 used to love my job; recently my colleague caught me...
June 6: Vreneli Stadelmaier joins us to discuss imposter syndrome and fluid careers
We welcome back Vreneli Stadelmaier to talk about imposter syndrome. This time, we’ll talk about imposter syndrome and how it impacts the fluid career. There was recently a wonderful article at HBR.com about competence vs. confidence and how people respond to...
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An Open Letter of Apology To All Stay at Home Moms (aka – the 24 hour, no vacation, no pay, no FLSA, no anti-harassment job)
We at InPower Women are so excited to publish the first article of our new blogger Christy Pruitt-Haynes. Please welcome her and give her your feedback in the comments. We're honored to have her as part of our blogging team! ~InPower Women Staff Dear Stay at home...
“I’m not ready yet…” An Equal Pay Gap Contributor?
I have a female client, J, transitioning careers who just woke up to how she’s getting in her own way – and mustering the courage to stop. This post celebrates her, and every other woman who’s decided to “get ready to be ready” to take that next step and talk up her...
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...
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Feel Good Self-Promotion
Do you hate networking? Meeting strangers and having to promote yourself – or your business – from scratch? Join the club! Dana is something of an expert in helping us learn authentic personal promotion techniques. Her secret? Authentic strategies that don’t feel like...
Career Advancement Tips: How To Get A Sponsor
Research has shown that career sponsors have a more positive effect on your career than mentors. But how do you get a sponsor? We love Henna’s career advancement tips on the 5 factors that invite sponsors to help us. What are you doing to attract sponsors? – InPower...
Is Office Politics Holding You Back?
We’ve heard some women point at “office politics” for why they don’t care much about getting ahead, and even some who don’t let it stop them hold their nose and deal with it. Sometimes this is an excuse and sometimes it’s not. Dana takes a hard look at what is really...
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