Archive for the ‘women’ Category

• How Can We Find/Get/Keep More —-

  • September 17th, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Employment, Executives, Feedback, Mangement, Motivation, Support, women

  Many organizations bemoan the lack of female and minority candidates for senior management and executive positions. I don’t know where they are looking or what they are doing, but there is no secret about how to find them. attract them,… Read More

• Home Work Home Work Home Work Home – ME

  • July 17th, 2017
  • Posted in Employee Development, Guided Execution 1:1, Skills, Stress, Support, women, Work Life Balance

  If you are constantly seeking parity between work and home you may feel like you are on a quest in search of an elusive ‘holy grail’; it must exist out there somewhere!

• Competing for Air Time

  • March 14th, 2016
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Feedback, Motivation, Planning, Skills, Stress, Support, women

  Competing for air-time is a professional sport. We compete to get our ideas heard, to win the argument, and to clarify our points. More often than not, people interrupt each other to maximize their air-time. (Presidential debates aside!)

• Choice: Freedom from ‘Oughts’

  • August 12th, 2015
  • Posted in Employee Development, Guided Execution 1:1, Stress, Support, women, Work Life Balance

  We’ve all seen people make hard choices. They make their choices and then live with them. Yet, there is always some bit of residual guilt, as if their choice wasn’t really what they should do.

• Affirm or Develop: Both Can Work

  • August 4th, 2014
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Employee Development, Feedback, women

  I received a few emails last week to let me know that the Baltimore Business Journal had re-published an article I had written for them in March of this year. I was delighted and curious. I understood their logic perfectly…. Read More

• Read it & Sigh

  • September 10th, 2013
  • Posted in Mangement, Support, women, Work Life Balance

  I tend not to jump on bandwagons. I keep up and make sure I know what people are talking about. I read reviews and blogs and listen to the opinions of the famous and the not famous who are in… Read More

• Race ya!

  • March 12th, 2013
  • Posted in Consulting, Motivation, women

  Early in my consulting career, I met with a prospective client whose industry had very few women employed in it at the time. We hit it off and he said something that has stuck with me since those early days…. Read More

• Rhetoric vs Reality

  • May 2nd, 2012
  • Posted in Change, Skills, Stress, women, Work Life Balance

  I’ve been making presentations on the topic of work-life integration for a while now. The women I talk to are in search of the magic combination that will unlock the padlock to happy success.  They are eager to find the… Read More

• Don’t Ask = Can’t Get

  • April 25th, 2012
  • Posted in Communication, Planning, Preparation, women

  The art of negotiation involves a specialized set of communication skills. There is an agenda with an objective. Sometimes there are many objectives. There can even be hidden agendas. But overall, study after study points to findings that reveal that… Read More

• Rules for Improvisation Work at Work

  • April 10th, 2012
  • Posted in Consulting, Mangement, Skills, Support, Training, women

  I recently read Tina Fey’s book BosssyPants. Not exactly a memoir, it traces her life from growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, to college, to Chicago’s Second City impov group, to SNL, to 30 Rock. It’s funny, witty, introspective,… Read More