Skip The Drinks But Build Workplace RelationshipsThat Count
“I don’t have time to go out for drinks with the guys or play golf so how do I build relationships?” I often get asked this question when I do live presentations. It is true that once you identify the informal networks of influencers in your workplace, you will...
Repeat After Me: I’m Awesome!
Head & Shoulders, the shampoo company, recently surveyed 2,000 British women about their confidence level and 48% said they believe that they would have progressed further in their careers if they had more confidence. First of all, it is a little surprising...
Managing Workplace Politics During Change: 10 Tips to Stay Ahead and Get Ahead
We know that nothing stays the same for very long and in the current business environment you need to be prepared for the many changes that take place every day. Companies reorganize to stay profitable and marketable. Mergers and acquisitions are ever present. All...
Does Pleasing Everyone Else Hold You Back From Reaching Your Goals and Dreams?
Your focus is making everyone around you happy. This includes spouses/partners, children, family, colleagues, friends, and bosses. You want everyone to not only be happy, but to be pleased with you. You like doing things for others. You are most content when...
Why Doesn’t Academic Success Lead to Career Success?
Women excel academically. We are currently earning almost 60% of college degrees, about 50% of doctorates, and roughly 45% of MBA’s. We are more prepared than ever to assume leadership roles in business. Yet just 4.2 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. So...
A Heads Up About Keeping Your Head Down
I facilitated a workshop this past week for women executives from ADP at The Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. Before the workshop, a survey was sent out by The Athena Center in order to determine some of their barriers to advancement....
Changing Things Up
This past week I moved from Martha’s Vineyard to Connecticut; lots of packing and unpacking; organizing and discarding. Now that I am fairly (?) settled in my new place, I realize how challenging change can be, even when we plan for it. Our daily routines are...
Leaning In and The Hokey Pokey
It’s ok to “lean in”. It’s ok to “lean out”. It’s ok to opt-out. As I was writing this, I had a visualization of doing the hokey pokey. Do you remember that from your childhood? “You put your whole self in. You put your whole self out. You put your whole self...
Learning From Failure
We all do it. We make mistakes every day; some big mistakes and some minor ones. It’s part of life. Do you know that if you Google “learning from failure”, you will get about 129 million results? So you are not alone. We can’t avoid our missteps but we can...