We've all been there. Having a great day. Checking things off the to do list. Then boom! You hit a wall worse than a marathoner bonking at mile 20. You want to crawl under the desk. It takes an hour to get back to the same level of productivity. That's an hour you’ve either lost or you have to...
career advancement
Need Career Advice? Exercise and Climb a Tree
There’s nothing like a great metaphor to make a point. I often look for metaphors that illustrate my mission to help women “Find the Work that Fits Your Life”, and I love one I just saw on the Levo League web site that equates building a career with climbing trees. In the Levo League article, “6...
5 Tips for Being a Leader to Your Employees
By: Mary Schaefer Do you simply manage the people who work for you – or do you truly lead? Consider utilizing what naturally engages human beings at work, like appreciation and a sense of being a meaningful part of something bigger than themselves. The result is an increase in your company’s...
4 Pieces of Advice for Female Social Entrepreneurs
by: Laura Calandrella Ten years ago, social entrepreneurship was a pretty lonely field. There weren’t degree programs or associations; impact investing and microfinance were barely even recognized terms. Even organizations like Ashoka – which has a 25-year history of investing in entrepreneurs...
Executive Coaching Guru Joel Garfinkle [Audio Interview]
As a part of our interview series with InPower people I am loving talking to so many executive coaching experts. Coaches are often, by definition, pulling from their InPower source. They have to in order to help their clients, and the best ones are helping you access your internal power source...
Who Says It’s A Man’s World?
I'm excited to make a double announcement here on InPower Women! We have a new blogger joining us - Emily Bennington - who just wrote a great book called Who Says It's a Man's World: A Girl's Guide to Corporate Domination. (Buy it in the InPower Women's Book Store) Emily and I took a few minutes...
Lessons Learned From A Female TV Producer
An excerpt from UNSINKABLE: Find a Job, Create a Career, Build a Business By Molly Mahoney Matthews “I produce videos for the hospital.” I answered when my new hair stylist asked what I do. Amazingly, he continued to snip away and said, “TV producer, that’s nice.” I watched his face. He did not...
Building Your Personal Brand Through Your Social Career Strategy
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. Heidi and I are giving a free webinar on this subject soon, so join us for this too!...
Research Says: Women Don’t Ask?
Study: Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (Linda Babcock, Carnegie Mellon 2011) Finding: The wage gap affects more than high-level executives. Women need to negotiate for what they're worth straight out of college as well as when they're moving up the corporate ladder....
“I’m not ready yet…” An Equal Pay Gap Contributor?
I have a female client, J, transitioning careers who just woke up to how she’s getting in her own way – and mustering the courage to stop. This post celebrates her, and every other woman who’s decided to “get ready to be ready” to take that next step and talk up her achievements for the next job,...