by Dot Callihan | Dec 12, 2017 | Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
The current narrative says that all unwanted sexual attention and harassment is based in power. It isn’t. Sometimes it is simply about sex. I’ve never had unwanted attention from or been sexually harassed or abused by any man I work for. One senior manager may have...
by Dot Callihan | Dec 8, 2017 | Dealing With The Ugly Stuff, Thinking Like Empowered Women
After reading an article I got in a comment battle with another woman over how women should respond to sexual harassment and assault. She was very focused on offering empathy and sitting up all night with a woman who has been hurt. To her offering empathy and...
by Dot Callihan | Dec 4, 2017 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
The true secret to success is being yourself – your true authentic self, full of strengths, weakness and quirks. We all gladly embrace our strengths. We love to show them off. But we should also be proud of our weaknesses and quirks because through them we find real...
by Dot Callihan | Dec 1, 2017 | Thinking Like Empowered Women, Understanding The Male-Dominated Workplace
Women have a HUGE misperception about the male-dominated workplace that has done incredible damage to our efforts to advance. Women work from a narrative that says men want to climb to the top so they can have power over others. Many women believe men aspire to...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 29, 2017 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
When we talk about how women influence the male-dominated workplace we often say that women create balance. But that isn’t very impactful and it doesn’t portray the full power of women. When we think of women balancing men we equate it to men going too far and women...
by Dot Callihan | Nov 28, 2017 | Thinking Like Empowered Women
What value do women, bring to the workplace? For centuries the accepted answer was “None.” Even today most of us can still only give a vague answer. We hear that companies with more women perform better but we can’t specifically state why that is. Without a clear...
