Note from the Editor: The staff of InPower women is taking some time off this week, as we hope you are, so we are reposting this popular post you may have missed. Happy Holidays! I'd like to banish the widely held myth that women are uncomfortable with power, that we aren't in touch with our power...
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...
Even the best of intentions sometimes go wrong. Leaders have an extra challenge in learning to manage compassionately without accidentally limiting options for their team. Leslie learns a lesson from Oprah's challenges last year and gives us some great advice about leading from the heart. -...
GUEST AUTHOR: ANN TIMMONS It takes a lot of humility to be a good leader. You have to be personally strong enough to hear bad news without blaming the messenger. Ann does a great job of helping us focus on this key leadership skill and reminding us why developing our own inner power is so useful...
We're excited to publish Mary's next lesson in leadership - about influence! Influential leadership is one of the most important - and difficult to master - leadership skills any of us can hope to use. Mary provides some practical insights into how to become an influential leader. - InPower...
One of the most powerful skills women bring to the workplace and leadership is the ability to model emotional intelligence, or the ability to use emotions constructively to communicate and manage people and challenges effectively. Mitch takes her EQ inspiration from Disney's "Frozen" to help us...
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. Check out her new site, too! -...
Sometimes we’re so busy running we forget why or where we’re going. We forget to keep working on our dreams in the middle all the life rushing around us. Mitch brings a fresh, personal and poignant perspective to both our patience and our impatience, and shows us how impatience may be a virtue. –...
All too often women on the leadership track are told to work on their presence. But what does strong leadership presence actually look like? Andria shows us! ~ InPower Editors As an executive coach, when an organization contacts me about coaching one of their senior leaders, I often hear this...
Something insidious is happening in the cubicles and hallways of America’s big and midsized companies. Employees who have attained a chunk of the America dream — a steady paycheck, benefits and a rung on the upwardly mobile ladder — are risking an uncertain job market and quitting their jobs in...
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