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....
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Job Seekers
Career Transition Series The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is a classic that stays relevant with time promoting personal effectiveness and principles-based living. Losing a job requires that we take charge of the unexpected. That...
Tips to Effectively Manage Your Manager
We all have had terrible bosses, incompetent and or toxic. Tales of our worst bosses make it an excellent topic for sharing with friends and colleagues. It sounds so familiar because most of us have had trouble with bosses at some point in our careers. There is even...
Tips to Effectively Manage Self-Disclosure as a Leader
Self-disclosure is a communication process by which one person reveals information about themselves to another. In the workplace, self-disclosure is necessary to create trust and foster a sense of belonging where people can be themselves. For instance, team...