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3 Communication Tips for Women: Be Realistically Positive To Avoid Being Called “Risk Averse”
As a rule, women are good communicators. Yet many women are told that their communications patterns are holding them back when it comes to workplace success. What’s going on here? For starters, the above observation is full of generalizations. “All women” aren’t...
Getting Itchy At Work? Maybe It’s Time To Start Your Proactive Passive Job Search
Every job has it’s turning point, that time when you’re not learning as much as fast; or you’re losing interest; or starting to figure out what you really want to put your career energy into… even though you’re not quite ready to declare the job you’re in “ready to...
Freedom of Choice: A State Of Mind
Yes, many organizations and governments are oppressive and need to be voted and fought against. But true freedom of choice is a state of mind. How can you tell? In any community, regardless of circumstance, you can find people who bear the burden of the rules around...
How To Start A “Happily Enough Employed” Job Search
If you’re “happily enough employed”, can you really be in a job search? Yes! In the career development world we call this a “passive job search” and it’s been shown that people who are happy where they are usually get the best job offers to go somewhere else and...
InPower Summer Camp: 20 Fun Activities for The Working Mom
Summer is a special time that you deserve to take advantage of. You’ve worked so hard over the past year, survived the holidays and maybe even some big birthdays. Now is a time to celebrate all of your achievements with a little rest and relaxation. It’s summer...
Is There A Roadmap for Women’s Leadership and Career Success
As a human resources corporate executive, consultant and coach for many years I have had a front row seat to the challenges that women (including myself) faced in the development and growth of their careers and leadership. Most of us have firsthand experience of the...
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Just Be Yourself? 5 Ways This Can Be Dangerous
Cliches have truth in them, but sometimes they're just too simple! We love how Henna gives deeper insight into the truism "be yourself." Wisdom below! - InPower Editors “Just be yourself, you’ll do fine”. Ever heard this well-meaning advice? I gave this advice...
How to Tell Your Leadership Communications Skills Need a Tune Up
Ever get one of those "little feelings" that warns you're saying one thing and communicating another? This is particularly problematic when you're the boss. For those in charge, learning good leadership communications skills is critical. Mary helps us diagnose some...
Managing People – Do We Really Do That?
My first management experience was a disaster. I had a poor manager myself and was told to “be in charge” of a group of my peers, who did not report to me and had no particular reason to do what I told them to do. It turned into a backstabbing circus within hours....
Women in Leadership
The Role of Fear In Success [AUDIO]
I want you to meet an InPower woman. Dallice Joyner has risen above the most abject circumstances of poverty and prejudice to be an effective and motivating leader of an organization doing much needed work in our society. Dallice is the Executive Director of the...
Research Summary: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently
Title: Employee Satisfaction Is Down, Women Respond Differently Study: Reinvent Opportunity: Looking Through a New Lens (Accenture 2011) Finding: Women and men have different strategies for handling job dissatisfaction. InPower Insight: Women and men have similar...
What’s The Worst That Could Happen When You Speak Your Mind?
I like working with men, I really do. Of my clients and colleagues, the gender mix is evenly distributed. Over the years, I’ve become accustomed to being the only woman in a room full of businessmen and have never felt excluded or diminished. When I read the vigorous...
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