Self Promotion Backfires To get a raise you need to self-promote, but self-promoting women may experience backlash in the workplace. What can I do to keep my self-promotion from backfiring? The website W2Wlink.com has some answers. “The characteristics we associate with success, including confidence and competitiveness, are seen as stereotypically masculine. Characteristics that are seen […]
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How can you mentor other women to help them succeed? What have been your keys to success? If you’re not already on Linked In and using social media, get with it! Now! LinkedIn provides some terrific groups like Women 2.0. Check out this recent post by Dawn Goldberg, CPA, in response to a question in
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Technology was supposed to give us more leisurely and better lives. Sadly, many women are discovering an opposite effect. Instead of feeling plugged in, they find themselves isolated, cut off from real human interaction. This isolation is especially painful — and dangerous — for women who work from home. They have no contact in the
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Learn from association expert Cynthia D’Amour how to succeed as a lazy leader. Invite others in Make it fun Accept new ideas Don’t try to do it all yourself Dump the martyr tiara Toot horn for others N: We are fortunate indeed when our careers intertwine with our passion and our purpose and our need
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Social-profit organizations always operate with small staffs and people who can feel maxed out. Social media opportunities today stretch staff resources to the breaking point and have created three major problems. This excellent article explores three negative consequences and what to do about them. The 24/7 news cycle creates compassion fatigue. People feel overloaded with
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How do I keep cliques from damaging my group? You know the bad things about cliques. Workplace expert and blogger Marlene Chism tells us that Cliques can represent exclusion Cliques contribute to jealousy Cliques create a tribal mentality or blind spots But despite the problems they can create for your fundraising, volunteer, community, school or
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Do you get what you ask for? Are you a great negotiator? Many women hate to bargain, but it’s an essential skill in relationships and in the business world. A brief article in Inc. Magazine cautions about five things we should NOT do when negotiating if we don’t want to give the advantage to the
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Speaking of helping women advance in the world of science and technology, blogger Mary Hodder offers a fascinating discussion of male-female differences and how they play out in the workplace. Men as risk takers, women as the ones who think ahead to prevent problems they KNOW they will be left to clean up……..hmmmm, that sounds
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What is your work style? Are you a doer, happiest when leaping tall buildings and achieving the impossible? What do you do when you’re finished? If you feel let down, empty and try to fill the void with another impossible challenge, that makes you a Wander Woman! Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and
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Vulnerability An Inescapable Human Trait – Make it a Strength When we have worked so hard to achieve credibility and position and influence and power it can feel deeply threatening to reveal our human vulnerabilities. It’s necessary, though, and can actually put us in a much stronger position than trying to pretend we’re never wrong,
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