Guest Post By Meghan Hall, Business Management Blogger (Learn more about Meghan at the end of this post) For a seemingly multitude of reasons women have failed to gain a foothold in the growing industries of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or more commonly known as STEM jobs. Even though there are more women in higher education than ever before and … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2012
Contracts That Hurt You
Millions of people are taking the leap to start their own business every year. Whether a solopreneur or part of a skilled start up team - new business owners are busy. Starting a business may start with a dream but businesses succeed with hard work, determination, and the drive to forge ahead. Many people, after starting a company, realizing the amount of time it takes find … [Read more...]
What’s an Encore Career? 7 Tips to Start Your Second Career
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: No matter what age you are, it's challenging to switch to a completely new career. However, more people are "recareering" every day. Amanda Augustine of TheLadders offers seven tips to jump start your encore career: Identify your key selling points. Think about the key strengths and skills that made you successful in your professional career, and … [Read more...]
Management by Generations
There is an absolute truth in being an entrepreneur that you will be out of your depth on many occasions. Knowing this fact makes it easier to shift your perspective from a defensive stance to a position on learning from unexpected sources. I recently encountered a similar situation with a younger member of a board for a national organization, here’s what I learned. While it’s … [Read more...]
4 Basic Skills of Emotional Intelligence that Can Make or Break Your Career
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you have emotional intelligence? Some people are born with it, but others have to work to develop it. Either way, emotional intelligence can affect your career. John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with … [Read more...]
Men and Women Corporate Directors Disagree on Boardroom Diversity
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The 2012 Board of Directors Survey, which was conducted by WomenCorporate Directors (WCD), Heidrick & Struggles, Professor Boris Groysberg of the Harvard Business School, and researcher Deborah Bell, was released today. The study surveyed over 1,000 directors from around the world to identify strategic priorities and views on their own boards' … [Read more...]
New Technologies for Mobile Merchant Accounts
Guest Post by Ms. Bekiroglu, editorial consultant for mobilepaymentgeek.com (learn more about Ms. Bekiroglu at the end of this post) The rising popularity of smartphones and connected tablets has allowed mobile credit card processing providers to offer a range of new options for point of service or sales transactions. This level of flexibility is a considerable asset … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Look Before Making the Entrepreneurial Leap
Guest Post by Kate Swoboda, aka Kate Courageous (learn more about Kate at the end of this post) People who are considering running their own business often consider doing so from the perspective of leaving a more standard, traditional job–in an office, with a boss, a human resources department, and a steady paycheck. Sometimes that means a hard reckoning–because … [Read more...]
The Guilt Ridden Working Mom
How to Survive those Moments of Guilt - We will all be okay! Whether you work outside the home, or in the home, you have those moments where you feel like you are doing something wrong, or neglecting them. That moment when they cry for someone else, or don't want to be with you, or the ever present "one second honey, mommy's working," "let me just finish this email," and … [Read more...]
FedEx Jingle Studio Marries Viral Video with Facebook Marketing
ADVERTORIAL: Integrated marketing is so hot these days that when a representative from FedEx's viral marketing team contacted me to ask if I'd discuss the new FedEx Jingle Studio campaign with the Women on Business audience, I was intrigued. In an effort to connect with small business owners and reposition FedEx as not just a delivery service but also a company that can … [Read more...]