Empowered Women Don’t Let Ego Get in the Way of Teamwork
All of our workplaces have goals and objectives they want to achieve. The standard approach is to ask the best and brightest employees to generate ideas, work through the planning process and develop a plan to achieve the objective. But, no matter how “well-planned,” our workplaces still experience problems achieving the objective.
Why is that?
Empowered Women Can Negotiate and Succeed With Bad Faith Actors
We like to think of negotiating as two sides coming together, sharing ideas and compromising on their interests in order to achieve a larger common objective. That is how negotiations work in an ideal world. All too often we wind up in negotiations where one or both...
Empowered Women Change the Toxic Male Workplace
My first boss died of a heart attack 4 months after I began working. A year later a male co-worker died of complications following quadruple by-pass surgery. Six months later a man I frequently worked out with died of a massive heart attack following a run. One month...
Empowered Women Seek and Assert Informal Power
In spite of all of the workplace advice women are given I’ve noticed there is one topic that is seldom discussed – the importance of Informal Power. Instead we focus our attention on women achieving Formal Power. I presume this is because Formal Power is an easy...
I Reserve the Right to Say, “I Told You So.”
Is there a woman alive who hasn’t made a suggestion to a man or a group of men, only to be blown off? The response you get is: “No, we got this handled. We know what we are doing.” Then you think to yourself, “No, you don’t.” You think about all the things they...