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Why Collaboration is the Key to Success in Business
Key Takeaways: Collaboration boosts efficiency: Effective collaboration reduces duplicated efforts, clarifies roles, and streamlines workflows, leading to cost savings and quicker turnaround times. Empowerment through collaboration: When teams collaborate, employees...
The Leadership Upside of Getting Fired
Key Takeaways: Failure builds character: Being fired from a high-level job teaches humility and resilience. It reveals that self-confidence, without humility, can lead to missteps, and failure doesn’t define you as a person. Redefining leadership: Leadership is not...
How to Deal with Annoying People
Key Takeaways: Choose your battles wisely: Sometimes staying silent is stronger than reacting, especially when the situation is petty. Not every conflict deserves your energy, so reserve it for the things that truly matter. Silence can shift the energy: When...
Discovering the Roots of Your Restlessness
Key Takeaways: Feeling restless, sad, or stuck—even in a seemingly “good” life—is often a signal that you’ve drifted from your authentic self, not a sign that something external needs fixing. Choosing comfort and fear-avoidance over fulfillment can slowly erode your...
Blend, Don’t Balance Work and Life
Key Takeaways: Work-life “balance” is outdated—embrace the blend. Life isn’t a neat 50/50 split; it’s a constantly shifting mix of priorities, and it’s okay if the ratios change day to day (or hour to hour). Guilt doesn’t serve you—cut it out. Women often carry a...
Breaking the Mold: Thriving as Women in the Workplace Built for Men
Key Takeaways The workplace needs to evolve to support women: Traditional workplace structures, designed with men in mind, often fail to accommodate the needs of women in the workplace, hindering their advancement. Women bring unique strengths to leadership: Qualities...
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Leadership
The Secrets to Empowered Leadership – Turn The Ship Around (Book Review)
Many women are praised for having an intuitive handle on empowering those who work for them. Whether women are naturally good at this skill or not, true empowerment is the most challenging leadership style to master. Last month I read a book, Turn the Ship Around,...
Employee Turnover: 5 Phrases That Send Your People Scurrying For The Door
Words are powerful communicators of attitudes that can build people up or tear them down. As a leader, your words carry more weight than you realize, and you need to be careful you're not parroting things that are driving people to leave. Employee turnover is...
Kindness In Leadership
A stereotypical leader is not always "kind," yet kindness can be one of the most important leadership qualities when it comes to building employee loyalty and motivation. Being kind also doesn't mean bing a sap. Know the difference to be a great leader. - InPower...
Mentoring
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Career Advice
Selfishness or Self-sacrifice: Is That Our Only Choice?
Ever feel stuck between self-sacrifice and being a selfish b&%ch in the office? Too many women know what this no-win situation feels like. We really like how Leslie reframes this choice around "self-fullness." Don't get stuck, choose selfully! - InPower Editors...
Building Your Social, Personal Brand
Please welcome special guest blogger, Heidi Lorenzen, President of Marketing Moksha, who’s turning her extreme marketing knowledge to helping us think about how to use social media to shape your personal brand. “Social business” is a buzz-phrase increasingly used...
Who am I? A Fresh Approach to Personal Brand Identity
Want to go places in your career? A lot of people will give you advice about your personal brand identity when you tell them you’re looking for new opportunities. In our socially visible culture, personal branding is that elusive skill that requires us to present...
Women in Leadership
3 Ways to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed
Many times the voice in our head holds us back. So it is quite often the voice in our head that needs to give us permission to move forward. Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, Elizabeth's advice will give you permission to do this more often! - InPower Editors...
The Woman Effect: TEDx MassAveWomen Video & The Research Behind It
On December 3, 2012 I had the honor of speaking to a group of powerful women in Washington DC at a TEDx event, TEDxMassAveWomen. I’m very excited because I’ve long wanted to distill down what InPower Women's about, into a simple but powerful video, and this gave me...
What’s Wrong With Women’s Empowerment?
What’s wrong with women’s empowerment? Nothing and everything. - Click To Tweet At its best, women’s empowerment programs are an organizational (or social) recognition that cultural barriers diminish women’s chances to succeed and make an attempt to counteract those...
Diversity & Inclusion
Why You Want a Seat at the Table Early in Your Career
I won’t pretend that I see every trend or can put my finger on THE solution to how to achieve gender parity in leadership, however, I do notice a few things I believe can help women gain important perspectives. One thing that’s popped up in my practice...
Damned if you do…. Unpacking Gender Bias in the Workplace
Over a decade ago, when I began writing about women in leadership and gender bias, I was very hopeful. Up to that point I had, what I thought, was a good experience working in mixed gender workplaces. I felt welcome and generally appreciated as a female leader. When I...
Why I Am A Male Feminist
By: Rob Sterling It's not often a fresh new voice enters the women's inpowerment movement, but today we have one. Meet Rob Sterling, male homemaker, feminist, and advocate for women's and men's rights to make careers out of what makes them happy. Rob believes that...
