NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The start of a new year means many business owners and marketers are preparing their 2013 marketing plans, and content marketing is one of the hottest topics for marketing in the new year. To help you jumpstart your content marketing efforts in 2013, I shared some free content marketing tools on Forbes today from Content Marketing for Dummies. Follow … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The key to getting more women in C-Suite positions is making sure leadership development begins while women are still in business schools. That's a critical factor that's missing from most business schools but is keeping the gender gap wide in the board room and executive offices according to Daria Burke, Founder and CEO of Black MBA Woman. Daria … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Did you know that women are far less likely to ask for a raise then men? That doesn't mean they're more deserving. They're just more assertive when it comes time to negotiate a pay raise. Sophie Cornish shares some great advice on the Business Insider for women to negotiate a pay raise successfully. She offers some key tips that you should review … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Can you be nice and be an effective leader? That's the question Myrdin Thompson of MomentumNation asks, and she believes that the answer is "yes." Myrdin offers a variety of suggestions to help you remain nice while leading your team and company to positive results in her article, which you can read by following the link below. Most importantly, Myrdin … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: How do you deal with situations in business that appear to be completely outside of your control? That's the question Sue Stockdale of Prowess 2.0 asked in a recent article, and her tips are exceptional. She writes: Focus on reality - what is actually going on? Focus on a wider perspective - how else could I view this? Focus on personal behaviors - … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Have you ever been handed a failing project and been asked to turn it around? That's the question Karin Hurt of Let's Grow Leaders asked recently. She reminds us that you need to slow down and assess the situation so you can be sure you make the right changes. But what do you change? To help you successfully tackle a turnaround, Karin offers a list of … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: According to The Wall Street Journal, just 15.6% of corporate board seats at Fortune 1000 companies are held by women (up 1% from the prior year). What's most disheartening about this statistic is that research shows again and again that diversity creates stronger teams and higher outcomes. Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal explains: "Even the … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Gender inequality at executive levels and on corporate boards of directors is a global problem. To date, nine countries have created some kind of quota requirements for corporate board diversity and another 20 have added some type of requirement for companies to address corporate board diversity in their annual reports. Despite these efforts to boost … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Venture-backed startups with women at the helm are more successful than startups led by men. That's according to a study conducted by Dow Jones which analyzed more than 15 years of venture-backed company data and executive information to compare successful versus unsuccessful companies. The Women at the Wheel study revealed: A company’s odds … [Read more...]

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATES: According to a study by the Council of Canadian Academies, Strengthening Canada's Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension, there is a significant gender gap in university research careers in Canada, which means women are excluded from both recognition and equal pay. James Bradshaw of The Globe and Mail explains: "Two decades after women began to … [Read more...]