NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Most people are afraid to speak in front of an audience, but it's a fear you can overcome. If you want to move into a business leadership role, you need to get over the fear of public speaking. Marcy Twete of Career Network Girls shares six tips to command a room: Practice, practice practice! Use a prop to give you something to do with your … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2012
Leaders Must Have Charisma
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The most successful leaders have great ideas and skills, but they also have charisma. Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter explains that charisma comes to some people naturally while others have to work to develop it. She writes for the Harvard Business Review, "Leaders can hire for spreadsheet skills, but they can't outsource … [Read more...]
How to Utilize Your Natural Leadership Abilities to Snatch That Big Promotion
Guest Post by Linda Hildebrant, Associate Director of Internet Marketing for Resume.com (learn more about Linda at the end of this article). Working toward a promotion requires more than simply exception skills in your line of work. You may have a fantastic resume and be a master of task completion, but leadership skills play a huge role in landing a promotion. You … [Read more...]
Customer Service Lessons from a Kindergartener
Customer Service, When to Take a Break Another piece of my personal life, but then again, when you work at home, its all personal. I was having a particularly rough day, but had shut the computer for now to go pick up my daughter from school. She got in the car, and I started the now regular routine of drilling her with questions to try and get any piece of information … [Read more...]
Australia’s Workplace Gender Equality Act Gets Closer to Reality
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The Workplace Gender Equality act is before the Australian Senate this week. If enacted, the law will require all businesses with more than 100 employees to report how many men and women they employ and whether male and female employees are paid the same amount. Clay Lucas of The Sydney Morning Herald shares some insights into the law from Helen Conway … [Read more...]
When Is It Time to Hire an Attorney?
Guest Post by Melissa Woodson, community manager for Washington University in St. Louis (learn more about Melissa at the end of this article). The numbers don’t lie: Women in the United States start businesses at a higher rate than men and are expected to create over half of the jobs in small business by 2018, Forbes recently noted. The article “Entrepreneurship is the New … [Read more...]
6 Highly Successful Executive Women Share Insights into Women in the Boardroom
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Despite the fact that research shows companies with women on on their boards perform better than companies with all-male boards, not one woman has been appointed to a board position for an FTSE100 company in the past year. Rather than looking at the negative side of that piece of news, Maeve Hosea of Marketing Week gathered inspirational advice and … [Read more...]
Why Bitchy Business Women Come in First
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Why are so many business women afraid of being called a bitch? The team at Content Factory explains, "The term “bitch” is really just a rhetorical tool for turning confidence, dignity and power into things that are unseemly. It’s a personal attack that’s used to make any woman who seeks or displays these characteristics into … [Read more...]
You Are The Company’s Greatest Asset
The number of people choosing to work for themselves continues to rise. Entrepreneurs inspired by a vision and a dream set out on a course of business ownership, their only tools often being their mind, creativity and experience. If this is you, both now and in the future you may be your company’s greatest asset. Until you are able to grow your company to a large enough … [Read more...]
5 Must-Read Success Tips for Women in Business
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Sometimes the best way to find success is to go back to the basics. Carla Young of the Bank of Montreal reminds women in business of some of those basics that can make or break your career. She shares the following 5 success tips for women in business: Find your tribe. Trust your instincts. Stop saying "Sorry." Charge what you are worth. Know when to … [Read more...]