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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010In my last blog (“Why Women Should Have Mentors in Business”) I talked about the importance of women using mentors to help them in their careers. For this blog, I thought I’d take the opposite approach and discuss the benefits of becoming a mentor to other women.
Why Women Should Have Mentors in Business
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010During speaking engagements with female audiences I love to ask them to raise their hands if they use mentors to help them in business. Years back, almost no one would raise their hands. Recently, more and more women are raising their hands and I’m ecstatic because I think the message about the importance of using [...]
How to Empower Others to Succeed
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Have you ever been to a restaurant and had your food come to the table either cold or the wrong meal delivered and then had the waitress or waiter bend over backwards to correct the situation (even if it wasn’t their fault)? Many companies are spending more time training managers on how to “empower” their [...]
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – as they apply to career development
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010It’s been about 20 years since I first read Stephen Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” – and I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed it. I was with a group of friends recently and someone mentioned a topic from the book. That piqued my interest again and I pulled his book off [...]
What Matters Most in Life – Thoughts from Randy Pausch
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Most of you probably read the title of this blog and thought, “Randy Pausch, now why does that name sound familiar?” You’ve probably heard his name used in the media over the last several years. Randy was asked by Carnegie Mellon University to give what’s known as a “last lecture”.
10 Tips to Improve Your Email Habits
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Did you know that according to the Email Marketing Report: 247 billion emails are sent each day. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, some 20 million emails entered cyberspace. And every second, the world’s email users produce messages equivalent in size to over 16,000 copies of the Complete Works of Shakespeare [...]
Part 4: So Your Boss is a Jerk, Now What? Dealing with “Sheila the Shameless Show Stealer”
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010I’ve had so many questions lately about how to deal with bad bosses that I’ve decided to create a four-part series focused on that topic. I’ve created four different fictional bosses and I’ll explain their work style along with tips on how to deal with them. Part 4 of the “So Your Boss is a [...]
Part 3: So Your Boss is a Jerk, Now What? Dealing with “Mike the Egomaniac”
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010I’ve had so many questions lately about how to deal with bad bosses that I’ve decided to create a four-part series focused on that topic. I’ve created four different fictional bosses and I’ll explain their work style along with tips on how to deal with them. Part 3 of the “So Your Boss is a [...]
Part 2: So Your Boss is a Jerk, Now What? Dealing with “Unorganized Ursula”
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010I’ve had so many questions lately about how to deal with bad bosses that I’ve decided to create a four-part series focused on that topic. I’ve created four different fictional bosses and I’ll explain their work style along with tips on how to deal with them. Part 2 of the “So Your Boss is a [...]
Part 1: So Your Boss is a Jerk, Now What? Dealing with “Driveby Dan”
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010I’ve had so many questions lately about how to deal with bad bosses that I’ve decided to create a four-part series focused on that topic. I’ve created four different fictional bosses and I’ll explain their work style along with tips on how to deal with them. Part 1 of the “So Your Boss is a [...]
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