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Dear Dana Workplace Advice: 3 Work at Home Motivation Tips
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, Thanks for the opportunity to seek your guidance and...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: How Do I Start A Career Move?
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 Currently, I am working for a software company that makes software...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Salary Negotiations Tip – Don’t Tell Them What They Don’t Ask
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 have found that all three websites I've used to apply...
4 Things Women Need To Know About Mentors
Having a well-placed, successful mentor can be the difference between success and failure on the leadership track – but it is definitely more an art than a science for the mentor and the mentee. I recently started hosting a radio show interviewing CEOs of...
Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Tips for a Salary Negotiation
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, What am I missing in salary negotiations? I think I...
Trump and Women: Should We Be?
There’s a lot of confusion and anxiety running around the Internet these days, and it feels relentless, like we’re drowning in the next big thing every time a text alert comes in. When I started writing this, I was thinking of the Women’s March on Washington (and...
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Women in Leadership
“Political and Economic Might” – Is This the Definition of ‘Power’ We Want?
Forbes has just published its annual list of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women. I applaud these women for their amazing impact and success, and I applaud Forbes for recognizing them. Yet it makes me wonder. Do Forbes’ more traditional criteria for power – “political...
Research Says: If You Want The Top Job, Learn The Interview Techniques
Study: Why you didn't land the top job (CBS News, 2011, Weisul) Finding: Many job seekers at all levels don't understand what the hiring managers are actually looking for in the interview process, and because of this they tend to emphasize the wrong characteristics...
Research Says: Women In Leadership Don’t Automatically Promote Women Company-Wide
Study: Women in Charge: The Impact of Female Managers on Gender Inequality (Academy of Management, 2012) Finding: Despite a widely held assumption that women in leadership will help promote women throughout the organization, in at least one organization this didn't...
Mentoring
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Career Advice
Mindfulness Can Help Your Career? Yes!
Today many of us are relaxing for the first time in a while. Others are looking forward to when they can. All of us can benefit from remembering that we choose the life we are leading and such mindfulness can help us through the busy times and the doldrums. We really...
New Year’s Intentions and Career Planning
New year’s day only comes once a year, and it offers us an opportunity to create a beginning like no other day. We like how Dana uses this day to do some intuitive career planning. But seriously, why wait until New Years to plan your future? Whatever you do today,...
Maxed Out – 6 Sources of Work Stress for Moms and Non-Moms
Moms know how much stress they're under, but what does a non-mom work stress expert think? We really appreciate that Paula took a look at stress through a mother's eyes in today's post where she reviewed the new book by Katrina Alcorn, Maxed Out. Along the way, Paula...
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