Blog – Category Career
Are You Headed Straight Toward Burnout? You NEED A Self Care Checklist
In 10 minutes you will be ready to build a self care checklist of your own. Make that small effort now and get the big payoff of feeling relaxed and taken care of.
Are There Gender Differences in Communication?
Learn how gender differences in communication —and thinking—works for men and women and how we can use that to better ourselves and our organizations.
The Benefits Of Inclusion Training
In this video, I’ll share the benefits of inclusion training and what diverse employment can do for your organization. It also includes good tips on how to make the business case for initiating inclusion and diversity trainings in your firm.
The Problem of Sexist Dress Codes
There’s no doubt that dress codes are helpful in terms of creating a professional and unified workplace environment. It also takes the guess work out of dressing yourself every day. Problems arise when these dress codes start towing the line (or else crossing it...
How To Set Personal Goals That You Actually Achieve
Setting a New Year’s resolution is always fun. It’s exciting to challenge yourself to change for the better in the new year. In this video, I want to talk about how you can use simplicity to achieve and surpass your own personal goals for this new year.
What Are Your Strong Points?
Why should you get the job, the promotion, the project, the sale? What are your strong points? You must know. You have to not only know your unapologetic value proposition, but also be able to deliver it–with confidence, power, and energy.
Is Promotion in the Workplace Fair?
In this video, I explain why there seems to be a strong bias against working moms. Fair promotion in the workplace means that working moms get equal opportunity rather than being relegated to the side as less committed, less capable and less worthy.
Professional Networking Tips For Women
There are many ways to learn professional networking tips but find a way to join a women-specific networking group. Let’s MAKE room at the top for more women leaders… together!
What Leaders Need To Know About Responding to Adversity
Who ever wants to talk about how to deal with adversity? No one. In this video, I share how responding to adversity properly is a critical skill for you to master. Learn more and chime in on how you deal successfully with adversity.
Find Balance in Your Life and Make Time for Yourself
In this article, I’d show you how to find balance in your life and make time for yourself—long before you experience those severe and debilitating effects of burnout. You deserve to find a way of achieving balance in your life now!
Staying The Course Is Crucial Because Running A Business Is Hard
In this post, I share my favourite analogy about getting through and ‘staying the course moment’. You may need it now– or in the future—and other entrepreneurs will definitely need it, too.
Men and Women in Business: Why Gender Balance is Important
Gender balance is important in the workplace—critical, in fact. That’s what the numbers show and common sense suggests it as well. But, we don’t seem to be getting any closer to achieving this. Why not? Why are men and women in business at odds?
Why Ghosting Destroys Corporate Etiquette?
What is ‘Ghosting’? Who Does It and Why? Learn how this often happen at work and how it destroys corporate etiquette. A thing to note, let us not forget the importance of communication in business.
5 Obstacles To Making Positive Changes
There are five main reasons why women are not progressing as much as we’d like in terms of workplace equality. Making positive changes will ultimately come down to looking at these obstacles and then overcoming them.
How to Get More Women on Boards?
Here I explore whether the increasing focus to have more women on boards is merely a fad. Is this something that will pass or is this a trend that will grow?
The Benefits Of Paid Parental Leave: Why We Should Offer Maternity And Paternity Leave In The US
The US is in last place compared to other Western countries because, as a nation, we have yet to recognize the wide-spread benefits of paid parental leave.
What Constitutes Wage Discrimination? Understanding the “Same Job, Different Pay” Scenario
Wage parity is not a 1:1 game. Compensation criteria vary from tenure, direct reports, and responsibility and of course, eradicate actual wage discrimination wherever it exists. The real question to answer however is this: Is the compensation fair?
Are Women Terrible in Negotiating Salaries? A Quick Look on Pay Difference Between Men and Women
Many believe that pay difference between men and women is a result of the latter being poor salary negotiators. Yet, the facts don’t support this idea. Is something else – something women can’t control – the real cause on why this issue persists?