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Dear Dana Workplace Advice: Self Care for Leaders During Layoffs
Key Takeaways: Layoffs affect leaders too: While the focus is often on helping those who are laid off, team leaders also experience significant stress, including guilt and additional work. It's important to recognize that leaders need support as well. Adopt a mindset...
Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?
Key Takeaways Coaching vs. Mentoring: Key Differences: Coaches focus on personalized growth, offering tools and strategies for skill and leadership development, while mentors share their experience, providing industry-specific insights and helping expand professional...
5 Tips for Networking Success
Key Takeaways: Networking is a crucial leadership skill: As you advance in your career, networking becomes more important than technical expertise, helping you clear obstacles and connect with resources and information. Networking doesn’t have to be about big events:...
Gaining Power In Your Career: A Guide to Getting Promoted at Every Level
Key Takeaways Getting promoted is not just about hard work: While dedication is important, getting promoted requires a deeper understanding of how the system works. You need to be strategic and play the game effectively. Toot your own horn: Don't be shy...
October 2024 Leadership Development Carnival
It’s time for another installment of the Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to Weaving Influence and the Lead Change for organizing some great posts from some remarkable leadership writers. If you're new to blog Carnivals, these represent a collection of...
A Guide to Allyship: The Authenticity Paradox and How to Help Women in the Workplace Move Past It
Key Takeaways: Key Actions for a Guide to Allyship: Men and women can support women in leadership by assuming competence, mentoring and sponsoring them, calling out bias, and fostering visibility. Allies should also work to educate themselves about the unique...
Popular Posts
How to Prepare for a Performance Review or Job Interview
One thing I love most about the InPower Community and other forums where I take part as an expert is answering people's questions. One of the most popular topics on people's minds is how to prepare for a performance review, followed closely by queries about how to...
Want An Executive Job? 4 Tricks To Get Out Of The Weeds
In a previous post about job interview tips, I outlined the findings of several research studies about advancing your career – especially for professional women in leadership who want to land a C-suite executive job. The research basically pointed up the...
10 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes Most of Us Make
Do you ever wonder what the "best practices" are for LinkedIn, whether you're looking for a job or not? Check out this wonderful post by Henna on common LinkedIn mistakes most of us make for some good advice. We've already done a little LinkedIn profile update after...
Leadership
October 2024 Leadership Development Carnival
It’s time for another installment of the Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to Weaving Influence and the Lead Change for organizing some great posts from some remarkable leadership writers. If you're new to blog Carnivals, these represent a collection of...
Feedback Coaching: How to Get Results with “Tough Love”
Key Takeaways: Balance empathy with clarity: While empathy is crucial, over-empathizing can prevent leaders from delivering clear feedback. Leaders need to ensure their feedback is understood without being overly soft or accommodating. Effective leaders use a spectrum...
Unlocking Potential: How the Right Coach for Executives Can Transform Your Leadership Skills
As an executive--or an executive-wannabe--enhancing your leadership effectiveness is pivotal to career success. After over a decade of executive coaching, I can confidently say that the right coach for executives can be the catalyst you need. Through personally...
Mentoring
Coaching vs Mentoring: Do you need both?
Key Takeaways Coaching vs. Mentoring: Key Differences: Coaches focus on personalized growth, offering tools and strategies for skill and leadership development, while mentors share their experience, providing industry-specific insights and helping expand professional...
Sponsor vs. Mentor – 3 Tips for Attracting a Sponsor
Is “Executive Sponsor” is the New “Mentor” for Women Leaders? The missing piece in women's advancement strategies into leadership? Mentorship helps us be effective, but it’s not as helpful at helping us get a job as sponsorship is. Dana takes a look at what is means...
Building Successful Mentorship Programs: What You Need to Know
Mentorship is an important part of any leadership development program. But should you formalize something that is often most powerful in its informal state? Having participated in and supported many different styles of mentorship program over the course of my career I...
Interviews
Change Management Secrets: Leading (and Surviving) Large Scale Change
Large scale change, a new software system, a culture change initiative or a new business investment can create havoc for those unprepared and major opportunity for those who seize it. In this discussion with Brand Transitions expert, Donita Prakash she shares some of...
How to be an Ally to Women of Color, and All Women
I so appreciate this conversation with Saundra Gilliard and the powerful women who participated in my interview with her. We discussed the complexities of setting up true and impactful alliances across racial lines between women. It turns out that the answer to the...
Getting a Promotion is SO Yesterday
Podcast/Audio Getting a promotion has never been so hard. The economy is in constant flux and burnout is running high, especially among women. One question many are asking these days is, "Do I even want a promotion? And if I'm unsure, why should I stay here?" These...
Career Advice
Soap vs. You: A Leader’s Guide to Branding
Back in the old days, companies did branding and people did leading. Not so today. Now-a-days if you want to get into, or stay in, leadership and other positions of influence you must have personal branding. In our overwhelmed world, brands – both personal and...
3 Ways to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed
Many times the voice in our head holds us back. So it is quite often the voice in our head that needs to give us permission to move forward. Whether you're an entrepreneur or not, Elizabeth's advice will give you permission to do this more often! - InPower Editors...
How to Delegate: 3 Tips for Letting Go Of Control
One of the first leadership and management lessons most of us learn is how to delegate - and battle that old "control" instinct. Why is it first? Because leaders don't scale unless they delegate well and you have to scale if you're going to have a big impact. Andria...
Women in Leadership
5 Tips for Networking Success
Key Takeaways: Networking is a crucial leadership skill: As you advance in your career, networking becomes more important than technical expertise, helping you clear obstacles and connect with resources and information. Networking doesn’t have to be about big events:...
Breaking the Mold: Thriving as Women in the Workplace Built for Men
Key Takeaways The workplace needs to evolve to support women: Traditional workplace structures, designed with men in mind, often fail to accommodate the needs of women in the workplace, hindering their advancement. Women bring unique strengths to leadership: Qualities...
How to be Feminine, Ambitious and Successful: Navigating the Gender Gap in Workplace Ambition
A common theme among the women I coach–at all levels–is a clear awareness of the gender gap in workplace ambition and confusion about how to navigate it. Key Takeaways Understanding Gendered Ambition Norms: Many women feel pressured to choose between achievement and...
Diversity & Inclusion
A Guide to Allyship: The Authenticity Paradox and How to Help Women in the Workplace Move Past It
Key Takeaways: Key Actions for a Guide to Allyship: Men and women can support women in leadership by assuming competence, mentoring and sponsoring them, calling out bias, and fostering visibility. Allies should also work to educate themselves about the unique...
Breaking the Mold: Thriving as Women in the Workplace Built for Men
Key Takeaways The workplace needs to evolve to support women: Traditional workplace structures, designed with men in mind, often fail to accommodate the needs of women in the workplace, hindering their advancement. Women bring unique strengths to leadership: Qualities...
Which Double Standard for Women Applies To You? All of Them?
Double standard for women in leadership is an age-old problem, but it turns out that it's not just a problem for leaders; it's a problem for all women in the workplace. Key Takeaways: Numerous Double Standards: The article highlights the plethora of double standards...
