What’s Your Plan to Get Ahead?
If you are ambitious and want to move your career forward, you most likely have some sort of a goal in mind; maybe it’s your next promotion or maybe it’s a long range plan to run a company. It always helps to have some kind of goal even if it changes over time. Having...
5 Things You Need To Do To Get The Promotion You Deserve
If you have been in the workplace for a couple of years, you have most likely already learned the lesson that your talent and hard work will not ensure your promotion. The myth of the meritocracy has been shattered. Though it seems unfair to be passed over to less...
Are You Opting Out of Your Success?
We each have our own personal relationship to success. We have unique ideas about what success looks like and about our ability to be successful. What I’ve learned from coaching professional women for almost a decade is that there are many reasons why women avoid...
7 Unwritten Rules of the Office Your Boss Won’t Tell You
Most organizations have policies and procedures. If you're not sure what they are, a quick glance at the employee handbook will inform you of the rules as well as the expectations for codes of behavior and ethics. The rule book provides you with a road map for...
Your Choice: Getting By Or Getting Ahead
Every day you have a choice. You can show up as the best you can be or you can slack off and do just the right amount to get by. You can choose getting by or getting ahead. Some of us are capable of accomplishing our daily tasks on auto pilot. We are used to the job....
Does Your Boss Have Favorites?
Anne tells me that there are no private offices in her department at the bank. Everyone sits in an open area. The organization of the workspace, however, is indicative of certain dynamics. For instance, her boss sits next to a young woman and most of the day they are...
Does Your Company Culture Support Your Ambition?
I coach ambitious women. They come to me because they want to get promoted and I have a proven process to help them get ahead. But what I’ve noticed lately is many of my clients are out of alignment with the culture of their company and it causes them a great deal of...
It Pays to Ask
A young woman called me for advice as she was considering changing jobs. She received an offer from new organization and was very excited about the opportunity although this opportunity involved moving her family from NYC to Maryland. She did her homework and figured...
Sorry, Not Sorry. Why Women Need to Stop Apologizing for Everything (Fast Company)
This article originally appeared in Fast Company. I was interviewed for the article by the author, Gwen Moran. It’s been called the “hardest word,” but some women seem to use the word “sorry” as everything from a way to interject their thoughts into a conversation to...