by Dot Callihan | Aug 10, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff
Should a woman quit her job after being sexually harassed? Recently Trump stirred up some media controversy when he said that if his daughter Ivanka was sexually harassed at work “I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was...
by Dot Callihan | Aug 2, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
Recently I read an article about how to be an effective Change Agent. The article listed the characteristics of a Change Agent as Positive, Visionary, Likeable, Open and Strategic. It is through these qualities that the Change Agent has the ability to alter the...
by Dot Callihan | Jun 23, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Thinking Like Empowered Women
I often see it cited that one reason women aren’t advancing in the male-dominated workplace is because women don’t have enough female role models. I always question how much of a factor this really is because I never had an older woman in my profession to be my role...
by Dot Callihan | May 26, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
I wanted to do a follow up to last weeks article Political Swamp Wars 2016 because I got some great positive feedback reinforcing a point: When we are at work, we all need to have a bit of Alligator Slayer in us. That after all is what our...
by Dot Callihan | May 6, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women
When I was a kid growing up we understood that when people went to work, they did something tangible. We understood what the mailman, policeman, salesman, doctor, dentist, nurse and teacher did. Then a new job emerged – the middle manager. We...
by Dot Callihan | Apr 21, 2016 | Acting As Empowered Women, Dealing With The Ugly Stuff
We experience a wrong-doing at work. It upsets us. We want justice. We want management to be just as outraged and upset as us but they aren’t. They just make it to go away. This makes us even angrier that this is how the system works. It isn’t fair. We have all...