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Articles Filed Under: Women Leaders

February 23, 2010

I nailed it and it was liberating!

A client called me this week. She had just finished a meeting with her boss. In the past several months her boss has been bullying her (she is one of the women I talked about in my last blog).…

coaching, women leaders, workplace, new leaders

February 10, 2010

Welcome to the big leagues and don’t take it personally.

I just left a meeting with a talented young woman. She is about a year into her first real leadership role. She is passionate about her team and about what she wants to accomplish. She is bright and energetic. Any organization would…

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women leaders, new leaders

January 20, 2010

Reducing Female Employee Flight Risk

Contrary to what you’d expect, the primary way to keep good women is not to provide flex work but to help them get promoted.

From Harvard Business Review: http://bit.ly/5hobDD

women leaders

January 07, 2010

Pursuing Motherhood and Medals

Our very own Claire Carver-Dias (and Canadian Olympian) writes about the growing number of women who are engaged in high-performance sport after they have become mothers.

From the Canadian Journal for Women in Coaching: http://www.coach.ca/WOMEN/e/journal/january2010/index.htm

women leaders

December 09, 2009

Benchmarking Women’s Leadership

From The White House Project.

“Ensuring that women move into leadership alongside men is not a women’s issue, nor is it a trivial concern compared with the massive problems we face on a national and global scale. Increasing women’s…

women leaders

June 23, 2009

Silencing the Voice That Says You’re a Fraud - Wall Street Journal

A great article to help you recognize what might be holding your back (yourself) and how to fix it.  It could be called, “Stop standing in your own way.”

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greatness, motivation, women leaders, goals

March 03, 2009

Women and the Vision Thing

by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru - Published in the Harvard Business Review

Women are judged to be less visionary than men in 360-degree feedback. It may be a matter of…

greatness, women leaders

January 16, 2009

Survey of moms across Canada - women want more flexibility and supportive leadership

Survey of moms across Canada highlights that women want more flexibility and supportive leadership at work.

Results suggest how employers can attract and retain key employees who are seeking work-life balance.

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career management, leadership, balance, women leaders, workplace

January 05, 2009

A Return to Values

If you have been reading my blogs, you'll already know that I am an optimist.  I have always believed that change is good.  As I have said previously, even this current change in the economy is good. See my blogs for my…

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communications coaching, leadership, greatness, business strategy, women leaders, new leaders, influencing, managing change

December 02, 2008

Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership

Do Women Have Stronger Social Circuits? Are You a Socially Intelligent Leader? The Chemistry of Stress.

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leadership, women leaders, new leaders

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