You’ve reached the point in your career where you are ready to take on more responsibility and move up to the position of director? I’ve got you. While the transition from manager to director is a big jump and can be challenging, it is possible with the right approach. Here are some tips to help … More Top 5 Skills You Need To Move From Manager To Director
As we move into 2023, there are several key leadership trends that are likely to shape the business landscape. These trends are being influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for more diversity, and the growing environmental crisis. Here are the top leadership trends for 2023. Remote Work and Virtual Teams One of the biggest … More Top Leadership Trends for 2023: Virtual Teams, Diversity, Technology, and Sustainability
According to Indeed, the average hiring manager looks at your resume for six seconds. Knowing this it’s important to create a resume that, in six seconds, increases your chances of getting a job interview while at the same time avoiding unconscious gender and other biases that may be present in the hiring manager. While we … More The Best Way to Minimize Gender Bias in Your Resume
In this TikTok video, I asked my followers for one piece of career advice they would give their younger selves or other younger career women starting out. The response was overwhelming! I’ve tagged these smart, beautiful women in their responses so you can follow them if you choose. Here is some of the most popular … More Top Career Advice from Women Over 40
Your attention and your time is a commodity, and marketers everywhere, like me, are competing for it. Forbes estimates the average American is exposed to between 4,000 to 10,000 marketing messages per day! This leads to an enormous amount of clutter, both physical and digital. Too much clutter is bad for our emotional and physical … More 16 Tricks to Make More Time, Reduce Distractions, and Conquer Clutter
As I say in my Leadership for Women Web Series, culture is a construct. Culture is defined as “The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.” In other words, it’s something we all agree to acknowledge and follow. Unfortunately for women, for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, … More The Top Five Mistakes Women Make At Work
This is a leadership lesson from a spider. Stay with me. Throughout most of the summer, I’ve had a spider building a web on the driver’s side mirror of my car. While I’m not driving as much these days, I am still driving between 30 minutes to an hour a couple times per week. Each … More More than Talent: Career Success Takes Perseverance
Although things are improving, women continue to be underrepresented at every level in the workplace. A 2019 study by Women in the Workplace shows that women hold only 21 percent of C-Suite level positions and 38 percent of management positions. Much of this is due, of course, to bias, both conscious and unconscious, at every … More Mistakes Women Make in the Workplace That Hold Them Back
One of the most challenging aspects of running social media for a large organization can be coordinating and facilitating communications between departments in the company. It’s easy for the social media manager to become siloed, or, if you don’t have buy-in from all departments, it can be difficult or impossible to get the information you … More How to Take Leadership of your Company’s Social Media Strategy
Words have power. The words you choose can either bring strength to your communication or dilute it, removing power and lessening the impact. Very often we choose, either deliberately or subconsciously, words that undermine our own messaging as a way to be “polite” or “less threatening.” Instead, we end up being taken less seriously, or … More Four Easy Ways to Improve Your Email Communications
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