Your business is growing and so are your communication needs. Do you have a plan for how you are communicating with your audience? A plan for communicating new product launches, store openings, or expanded lines of business? How are you communicating changes to your employees? Do you feel like you are reinventing the wheel every time you send an all-staff email or customer … [Read more...]
How to End a Business Relationship (So You Can Slim Down Spending!)
If you run a business long enough, you’re definitely going to find yourself in the position of having to cancel a service, subscription, or software. Doing this has the potential to be uncomfortable, especially if you have any sort of history or personal relationship with the service provider. In fact, you may find yourself procrastinating having this conversation, because … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Business Women to Deal with a Bad Boss
Working for a bad boss can be a nightmare. It’s important to know when it’s time to take action before things get so bad there is no way to fix things. Fortunately, there are ways to deal with an unhelpful or hostile supervisor that don’t require you to put your career in jeopardy. Here are five tips for business women who find themselves stuck in this difficult situation. 1. … [Read more...]
How to Master the Art of Communicating for Business and Career Success
You want to be a great communicator in business. We all do, but communication is one of those skills that takes practice – a lot of practice. The good news is you can learn to be a great communicator if you’re willing to put in the effort. First, you need to understand what good communication looks like in the workplace, and then, you have to learn how to master the art of … [Read more...]
3 Easy Steps for Harnessing Empathy to Improve Remote Work
Corporate work is built on relationship building, negotiation, camaraderie, and interpersonal challenges -- all of which are aided by using empathy, our ability to see things from another's perspective. But working from home limits our abilities to understand what colleagues are thinking by diminishing our body language, the frequency of our interaction, and adding physical and … [Read more...]
How to Deal with Being the Only Woman in the Room
As women over the years achieved more and more success in male dominated worlds, it has become more common that they face the associated challenge; that of being the only woman in the room or the team. This can present challenges around getting yourself heard. As a young woman in a senior position, I have certainly experienced this on many occasions. While sometimes the … [Read more...]
Per My Last Email and Other Euphemisms to Use at Work
As if the manterrupting IRL wasn’t bad enough, we’ve made it to a point in our technological advancements where women are getting talked over via email... Over the last five years, and especially over the last one, my use of euphemisms in response to this phenomenon has increased. Whether it is because people are actively trying to spend less time staring at their computers … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Talk to Someone You Disagree With
There’s no getting around it: America is more divided than ever. I don’t have all the answers, but I do know that if we ever have a hope of finding our way back to each other as Americans, we need to start talking - and listening - to one another again. I have made it something of a personal mission to put this to practice. From long conversations with family, friends, and … [Read more...]
You Only Get One Chance to Recognize a Good First Impression
I recently read an article indicating that using emoticons in professional correspondence might make a wrong first impression. The author shared a recent study published in the Journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science: Effects of Smiling Emoticons on Virtual First Impressions. The results indicate that including the adorable smiley in your work email might be … [Read more...]
How to Avoid Political Wars at Work
You just watched the political debate. After hours of news headlines and social media posts focused on the discussion, you still haven’t digested the information that was delivered by the candidates on national television. Then you go to work and your opinionated co-worker pops the big question, “So, what did you think about the debate last night?” You wish you had time … [Read more...]