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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...
INSPIRATION: Being Begets Doing
I’m a pragmatic person. When I want something to happen, I think about what I should DO. Seems logical, right? Cause begets effect. Stuff happens ‘cuz other stuff happened before it. Do something, make something happen. Duh. But… even though I believe that the way I...
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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The Ironies of Failure
If we’ve read one “fail fast” article lately, we’ve read a million. Failure is an option! You can’t succeed until you fail! The Lean Startup goes so far as to encourage experimentation on your customer base, with the goal of failure, so you can turn it around into...
How A Female Exec Found Success in a Stinking Pile of Goo
Meg and I were lunching, as we often do, and I was being a good ear - only putting my executive coaching hat on occasionally for an old friend. The young company she’d joined a few years ago – that had allowed her to break the glass ceiling into the inner executive...
How to Encourage Folks to Stay in Corporate America… 3 Lessons from Solopreneurland
Even when I left Corporate America, I didn't leave. For at least a few years I think I was still caught in the corporate culture trance as I contracted in semi-permanent positions. It was lucrative and fun, but I didn't really experience the freedom of the outside...
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3 Steps to Feeling Confident
What does an etiquette expert say when you ask her to talk about inner power? Kara Ronin gives us the answer. We love how Karen ties together inner power with outer presence. - InPower Editors Did you know that confidence isn't something you're born with? Shocking...
3 Tips On Making Mistakes (Goof Ups Aren’t So Bad Once You Get To Know Them)
Perfection is overrated. As a matter of fact, it isn't possible, so learning to accept, learn from and deal with our mistakes is critical. We love how Christy shows how humor is one of many strategies to handle it when you goof up. Making mistakes is an inevitable...
Sales Skills Help You Reach Your Personal Best
Think you don't have any sales skills? Think you don't need them? You do! Kathryn deconstructs the most important sales skills and shows you how to develop your ability to get buy-in. What can you do to develop your sales skills this week? - InPower Editors There’s a...
Women in Leadership
Yellen Down The Glass Ceiling
With President Barack Obama nominating Brooklyn-born Janet Yellen for Chair of the Federal Reserve, the 67 year old is poised to become the first woman to ascend to this prestigious position in the 100 year history of the US central bank (the “Fed”). When she is...
The Top 5 Mistakes Women Make Receiving Feedback
"Women and feedback" is a rich subject. Not only do we often have our own filters in place about what feedback "really means" (and we're not always right!) but we DO receive feedback that's different from what the men are hearing next to us. Leslie does a fabulous job...
Don’t Get Caught In the Results Trap!
If you produce excellent results but don’t feel like you’re moving up the leadership ladder (or around the jungle gym) fast enough, take a look to see if you’re excellent work is holding you back. Here’s what it feels like to be stuck in the results trap: You do good...
Diversity & Inclusion
Research Summary: Board Diversification Strategy
Title: TBD Study: Board Diversification Strategy: Realizing Competitive Advantage and Shareowner Value (Virtcom Consulting) Finding: TBD Note about The Woman Effect Research Index: This study was performed by researchers not affiliated with InPower Women. Our Research...
What if Self-promotion is a Gender-Neutral Leadership Skill?
Sometimes true wisdom hides behind sensational headlines. I often think this when I read gender wars articles; you know, the ones that toss the sexes in the ring? Here’s my latest beef: Women need to self-promote to make more money. (Forbes Woman , Catalyst Inc.) So...
Ladies, What Are We Waiting For?
I’ve been watching the statistics and conversations on pay inequality and women’s leadership development. The more I read, the less inspired I am that the world will change as a result of this dialog.
