Strategies for Clarifying and Articulating Your Career Ambitions
Many women feel stuck in their careers at some point in their professional journey and might wonder what is next. Regardless of the reasons for the feeling of stagnation, what rises as a common trend is that women tend to struggle more than men when defining and...
Elevating Latina Voices: Strategies for Leading with Conviction
"Leading with conviction means acting boldly, taking clear stands, and being willing to take risks (even when it makes you vulnerable to failure and ridicule) to preserve core values and create a future you care about"......Resilient Leadership 2.0. Bob Duggan &...
Nine Steps to Increase Your Influence as a Woman Leader
Women Leadership Series Influence, or the capacity to impact agendas and outcomes and bring others on board, is essential for any professional aspiring to get results. Organizations are minefields of gender structural barriers, biases, inequities, and unfair...
Seven Steps to Navigate an Expanded Role Scope
Organizations are constantly shifting and evolving to respond better to an ever-changing environment. New market trends, technological changes, expansions to target a broader customer base, initiatives to better adapt to customer needs, mergers & acquisitions are...
Four Steps to Taking Women Leaders More Seriously
Women Leadership Series Accepting a promotion to first time Manager is a bold career move, exciting and scary at the same time. Being taken seriously is about being seen as capable and earning respect in our respective fields and scope of work. Also, being supported,...
Insights on Becoming a More Influential Leader
Many professionals who rise through the ranks realize they need more than expertise to achieve results. Successfully transitioning from individual contributor to leader requires getting things done through others. Why Are Influencing Skills Important? Leaders need to...
Tips to Effectively Manage Requests as a Leader
Accountability is a leader's ability to plan, organize resources, and drive results. It involves planning, tracking, reviewing progress on plans, and creating a culture where people are held accountable for their results. This article provides ideas on effectively...
Five Elements of Executive Presence for Women Leaders
Women Leadership Series Executive Presence combines natural traits and learned skills that allow a person to convey credibility, trustworthiness, and assurance even when the stakes are high. Leaders who show up with Executive Presence: Look like: Possess a...
Six Ideas to Manage Peer Relationships at Work
Peer-coworker relationships refer to relationships between employees at the same hierarchical level with no formal authority over one another. This type of workplace relationship receives little attention compared to managing up and down. Yet, the quality and...
The Proactive Job Seeker
Career Transition Series Habit 1 is the habit of choice, of being proactive, meaning that we are in charge of our lives and can choose our responses and behaviors in response to external events. Losing a job is an unfortunate event for which most of us are unprepared....
