Category Archives: Job Advancement
Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Embrace Your Strengths | Podcast
Click Play below to listen. Feel like a fraud? You’re not alone. Even the most accomplished among us have felt that way. It’s called “imposter syndrome,” and it could be holding you back. In this 30 minute teleclass, Ladies Get Paid founder Claire Wasserman shares tools to combat Imposter Syndrome so that you can better advocate for yourself at work and in your personal life. You will learn how to … [ more ]
Free Teleclass | Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Embrace Your Strengths
Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Embrace Your Strengths Tuesday, August 28, 2018 12:00-12:30 pm Register Now
The Art of Pushing Back: Advocate for Yourself Successfully | Podcast
Click Play below to listen. We all know it’s important to speak up when we’re being challenged to our face. But what about all the informal opportunities to self-advocate that crop up on a daily basis? In this 30-minute teleclass, Selena Rezvani, author of Pushback: How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want, will teach you how to amplify your voice at work by preparing ideas that are promotable, recognizing opportunities to back yourself, … [ more ]
How to Stop a Bad Boss from Impeding Your Career
If you have a difficult boss, you know what it is to feel stuck. You can always quit, of course, but leaving without a new job is risky. Most people can’t take the financial or professional hit. Or maybe you are at a great company and simply don’t want to leave. The thing to remember in this situation: “Your career is a marathon and not a sprint,” says Mary Abbajay, … [ more ]
Office Hours: What to Do When You Get a New Boss
Changes in management can be unsettling, whether they’re part of a major restructuring or due to just one person’s departure. We asked Suzanne Quigley, director of community and corporate responsibility at QVC and PA Conference for Women board member, for her advice on what to do when you get a new boss.
Transform Your Workplace with Radical Honesty | Podcast
Click Play below to listen. When Patty McCord was the chief talent officer at Netflix, she co-authored the company’s famous “culture deck,” which spelled out her vision for creating a company culture that hinges on employees behaving like, and being treated as, adults. In this 30 minute teleclass, the author of Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility will share what she has learned about radical honesty in the workplace, motivating with … [ more ]
Office Hours: Candid Answers to Your Pressing Career Questions
Two of the most accomplished executives you’ll ever meet, Marian Heard and Margaret McKenna aren’t just founts of business and management wisdom. As female trailblazers who were often the only woman in the room, they are also experts at handling workplace-culture and gender-bias issues. Over the years they’ve shared their experience and advice as mentors to women, and at the most recent Conferences, they fielded questions from attendees in breakout … [ more ]
5 Things I Wish I Had Been Told When Building My Career
By Marissa Tarleton, CMO, RetailMeNot It’s happened to all of us. We’ve all received advice at some point in our career that we just knew in our gut wasn’t right. Cautionary words that could have stopped us from moving forward or tamped down our desire to push to the next level. Phrases like, “Just be patient!” or “Don’t rock the boat.” As the executive lead for the [email protected] employee resource … [ more ]
2017 Session | Working with Difficult People: Navigating Different Personalities for Career Success
Your work day is filled with them—people who frustrate, impede, maneuver, undermine, plot, connive, and whine. This session will detail specific techniques for handling all of them, with easy-to-follow scenarios for every situation. Taking into account the modern issues that play into our work, including technology, generation gaps, and language barriers, researcher Amy Cooper Hakim and a panel of executives who have expertly handled many of these situations, will guide … [ more ]
2017 Session | Stand Out, Step Up and Get Noticed
Gender exclusion is still prominent in today’s work environments putting women in a challenging position – for obvious reasons around the lack of equity– but also for those trying to exist in a corporate landscape as they climb the ladder and try to make a name for themselves. The competition is fierce wherever you are, and whether you like it or not, you are part of it. How do you … [ more ]