NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you ready to market your brand and get big results in 2013? Remember, brands can belong to companies or individuals. It's just as important to develop and promote your personal brand in order to reach your career goals as it is for a company to market its brands. 2013 will be a year filled with opportunities and challenges for brand … [Read more...]
The Top Business Lesson I Learned This Year
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: What's the best business lesson you learned this year? That's the question the team from Kickstart Kitchen is asking, and already, some great lessons are included in their Lessons Learned in 2012 Pinterest board. You can follow the link below for all of the details, but here are a few of the great lessons that included on the list so far: "Trust … [Read more...]
Top 2013 Resolution for Business Women Should Be Saying No
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For many business women, saying "no" is difficult, but learning to say that two-letter word can have a very positive effect on your career, your business, and your life. Stephanie Chandler shared the story of her personal Just Say No campaign on the Forbes Work in Progress blog, and it's a great read for anyone who has trouble saying … [Read more...]
Another Woman Leader Exits Google and Shares 3 Lessons Learned During Her Tenure
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Another woman in a senior leadership role at Google has left the company. Earlier this year, Marissa Mayer left Google to become the CEO of Yahoo! Yesterday, Google SVP Shona Brown gathered her team to share the news of her departure. As she spoke to her team, Brown explained three key lessons that she learned during her time at Google, which … [Read more...]
Causes of the Business Leadership Gender Gap Are Different According to Men and Women
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Ask a group of business men why there is a gender gap in business leadership and you'll get a very different answer than you will if you ask the same question to a group of business women. However, the differences might surprise you. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox shares an enlightening story on the Harvard Business Review to demonstrate the disparity in … [Read more...]
Business Women – Is Your Voice Hurting Your Career?
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to U.S. scientists cited on The Daily Mail, people prefer female leaders that have a masculine voice. This isn't a new discovery. Research in the past has shown the same thing. Even Margaret Thatcher took voice lessons to lower her voice and sound more authoritative. "Studies have demonstrated that both men and women prefer leaders of … [Read more...]
Stop Acting Like Such a Girl
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Brandy Lee of The Daily Muse wants women to stop acting like girls at work. No, she's not suggesting that women close the gender gap by trying to hide the fact that they aren't men. She's suggesting that women can get in their own way in business by letting some common female qualities hold them back. Brandy suggests that women should learn to … [Read more...]
How to Diagnose and Cure Job Burnout
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Are you stricken with job burnout? It's not just a phrase, it's a real condition that comes with a host of physical and emotional symptoms. The key to understanding job burnout is recognizing the symptoms, diagnosing them properly, and taking the necessary steps to cure it and prevent its return. First, you need to know how to recognize when … [Read more...]
Just 1 in 9 Corporate Directors and Executives at California Companies are Women
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: For the past eight years, UC Davis Graduate School of Management has conducted a census of women directors and highest-paid executives at the 400 largest publicly held corporations headquartered in California. Unfortunately, the statistics in the 2012 census, which was released earlier this week, shows that the gender gap is just as big today as it was … [Read more...]
15 Words to Delete from Your LinkedIn Profile
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: LinkedIn has analyzed its 187 million members' profiles and compiled a list of buzzwords that are so overused they can actually do more harm than good. If you want recruiters to contact you, potential clients to connect with you, or peers to reach out to you, then you need to add more substance and less buzz to your LinkedIn profile. Julie Bort … [Read more...]