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Gender Matters: Aussies Set Bar for Women in Film
Creative Commons "Supergirl” by Ali Zaidan is licensed under CC BY 2.0 The Oscar nominations are all the buzz after last week’s announcements. Even though 2015 saw some very strong roles for women in film (did you see Suffragettes?), as a whole the entertainment...
Why You Should Cultivate a Leadership Mentoring Style
Someone once gave me the greatest compliment. She said, “Since you’re my mentor I think you can help me with this.” Until that moment I had no idea I was her mentor! From that day forward, I started paying more attention to my interactions with her, being more clear...
The Glass Ceiling: Sometimes It’s Not About Sex
There’s merit to the feminist narrative that says professional women aren’t hired for the top jobs as often because corporate cultures aren’t accommodating and sexism still exists – but sometimes it’s not about that at all. Sometimes, high-achieving women...
Women Leaders Aren’t A Modern Invention
You don’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you have been. It’s a common cliché, but it can be true – especially when we talk about women and leadership. When we think about historic women leaders, names that frequently come to mind are Cleopatra, Joan...
INSIGHT: Beginnings
Are you looking forwards or backwards? Beginnings only happen when the past is behind you. - Click To Tweet As the new year gears up, I’ve been thinking a lot about what deserves my energy this year. I hope you have too. January is a special time that gives us the...
INSPIRATION: Release
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Hellen Keller The end is nigh. 2015 comes to a close tonight. Where are you at? Is this an end to a happy time? A crappy time? Are you ready to be done with it? Wishing you could hold on? Still rushing to close out?...
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Career Aptitude 101: Did Your Skills and Interests Intercept Today?
Wondering about our career aptitude isn't just for entry level workers. We can experience a disconnect between our work and our life at any time in our career. We welcome Christy back from her blogging hiatus as she shifted her family and her business to a new city....
11 Ways Women (& Men!) Are Changing Work-Life Values
Women are leading a quiet revolution in the workplace and Dana used her debut post for the Huffington Post Business section to detail how we're doing it. The work-life values of the future workforce don't look like the values of the past. How do you live these values...
Career Coach: How Critical Thinking Independence Defeats Dragons
Early in our career - or anytime in our career - we often encounter workplace challenges that seem overwhelming. We really like how Sheila breaks down an overwhelming problem into its piece parts with the socratic method to provide guidance for how to tackle big...
Women in Leadership
Research Summary: Women Owned Small Business
Title: Women-Owned Small Businesses Growing Quickly Study: Women-Owned Companies (Phillips, American City Business Journals 2011) Finding: Women-owned small businesses are the fastest-growing segment of the business market. Note about The Woman Effect Research Index:...
What If The Glass Ceiling Isn’t What We Think It Is?
What is the glass ceiling these days? The traditional view is that the glass ceiling is the white male’s comfy, old boy culture at the top that is threatened by the entrance of women into their private enclaves. In these secret nooks and crannies of corporate culture,...
Research Says: Gender Diversity Improves Team Performance
Study: The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment (Tinbergen Institute, 2011, Hoogendoorn, Oosterbeek, van Praag) Finding: Teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated and female-dominated...
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