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. What I learned from that...
When things are bad at work, who's job is it to fix it? The higher you are, the more that task sits on your shoulders. Henna shares with us what it feels like when you forget this. - InPower Editors True story about one of the biggest regrets I have in my corporate career. At one point, I was...
Taking unstructured time to BE is a critical tool in your productivity and effectiveness bag of tricks. How often do you use it? Take a day off like Leslie did and see what happens! - InPower Editors I did a really good thing last week: I went on a 24-hour personal retreat. From noon on Monday to...
We have opportunities to push ourselves all the time in life. What do you do with those opportunities? Do you grab them and go for it or hang back and wait for something easier? Dana comes clean on her lifelong patterns and steps up to new ways to Do Hard, which is one of the strategies she gives...
Becoming an InPower leader means becoming mindful. But what does that look like? Feel like? Emily does a great job explaining why sometimes those questions are so hard to answer! But so important to pursue. - InPower Editor If there’s one question I get asked more than any other, it’s how you’re...
When you're leading a team, sometimes it tough to know when you're doing things right. We like Paula's simple descriptions of happy employees because it's easy to recognize success through her eyes. Are your employees happy? - InPower Editor When was the last time you jumped out of bed, excited...
Research continues to show us that mentorship is not enough to help women get into senior executive leadership in significant percentages. What the research says is that in addition to cultivating mentors to help them “learn the ropes,” the folks that leapfrog their peers into the executive ranks...
Do you hate networking? Meeting strangers and having to promote yourself – or your business – from scratch? Join the club! Dana is something of an expert in helping us learn authentic personal promotion techniques. Her secret? Authentic strategies that don’t feel like self-promotion! – InPower...
Research has shown that career sponsors have a more positive effect on your career than mentors. But how do you get a sponsor? We love Henna’s career advancement tips on the 5 factors that invite sponsors to help us. What are you doing to attract sponsors? – InPower EditorsWant to get choice...
We’ve heard some women point at “office politics” for why they don’t care much about getting ahead, and even some who don’t let it stop them hold their nose and deal with it. Sometimes this is an excuse and sometimes it’s not. Dana takes a hard look at what is really going on behind the “office...
