Each year, women bloggers around the world meet up at the BlogHer Publishing Network conference. BlogHer ’12 inspired Hillary Batchelder of SmartBlog on Leadership to share five women’s leadership lessons that she learned while attending the conference:
- Strength comes in numbers, but it only takes one voice to lead.
- Value your voice — and in your own way.
- You don’t need an answer if it’s not the right question.
- Don’t let distractions rule a conversation.
- First and final ingredient: enthusiasm.
Explaining #3 in more detail, Batcheider writes:
Rephrasing an unhelpful question can be a fantastic way to lead a dialogue. In her keynote conversation with BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, Katie Couric had a few telling points on certain questions that she gets asked simply because she’s a woman in a leadership position. “I always felt uncomfortable with the ‘How do you do it?’ questions because Brian Williams never gets asked that question,” Couric said. Don’t be afraid to rephrase the wrong question to create one that makes sense.
Read More at the Source: 5 women’s leadership lessons from #BlogHer12 via smartblogs.com
Susan Gunelius
Susan Gunelius is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Women on Business. She is a 30-year veteran of the marketing field and has authored a dozen books about marketing, branding, and social media, including the highly popular Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing, 30-Minute Social Media Marketing, Content Marketing for Dummies, Blogging All-in-One for Dummies and Kick-ass Copywriting in 10 Easy Steps. Susan’s marketing-related content can be found on Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, MSNBC.com, BusinessWeek.com, and more. Susan is President & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a marketing communications company. She has worked in corporate marketing roles and through client relationships with AT&T, HSBC, Citibank, Intuit, The New York Times, Cox Communications, and many more large and small companies around the world. Susan also speaks about marketing, branding and social media at events around the world and is frequently interviewed by television, online, radio, and print media organizations about these topics. She holds an MBA in Management and Strategy and a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and is a Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC).
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