A Little Lie? Why Fibs In Hiring And Workplace Happen and What You Need To Do

The truth is on both sides of the hiring process at many career levels, the recruiter often offers misleading information about the job and perhaps the company. Potential employees often pad their resumes.

Does the employer’s white lie and candidate’s CV padding cancel each other out? Maybe each party deserves what they get because they were less than 100% honest and transparent.

In the Australian TV series, “Fisk,” that debuted in 2021, the main character, Helen Tudor-Fisk, tells some big fibs about her experience as a trial lawyer after a divorce and career upheaval in order to get hired at a low-budget law firm. The show, many report, is very funny.

Changing the Workplace, Career successMichele WeldonApril 19, 2024Workplace Culture, Workplace Advice, LyingComment

OK To Cry? Expressing Emotions and Vulnerability Is A New Wave At Work

Raise your hand if you have cried at work.

My hand is up. Once early in my career when a boss was cruel in her comments to me in front of the newsroom and later in my career when a boss viciously chastised me for calling attention to a problem in the organization. Both outbursts were confined to me standing alone at the sink in the ladies’ room.

While this has been a definitively banned reaction for what seems like forever especially for women, new research shows being emotionally vulnerable in the workplace is optimal not just for employees, but for leaders and management.

Sizeism at Work: What You Need To Know To Make Workplaces Safe, Inclusive

It’s holiday party time at work.

If you are spending your days in an office, or you are going in from your remote office for the special in-person occasion of a year’s end celebration, there will be an abundance of buffets, holiday treats and goodies.

That can be wonderful and it can also be dreadful, particularly if you are labelled as overweight, a person in a larger body and fatshaming, fatphobia and sizeism are prevalent in your workplace culture. Subtle or overt comments such as, “Thats a full plate!” or “Why not try the fruit instead of the cookies?” may make anyone want to opt out of any celebration.

Sizeism is defined as bias or discrimination against an individual based on their weight or size. Women and weight is a toxic workplace stew with millions affected.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, MediaMichele WeldonDecember 8, 2023Sizeism, Workplace Culture, InclusivityComment

Back to Work: 6 Tips On Shifting From Remote To IRL Or Hybrid

Now that the pandemic is officially over—in spite of spiking cases nationwide— many leaders are calling for a return to the physical office.

Farmers Group CEO Raul Vargas recently mandated everyone be back in the office because it breeds creativity, camaraderie, and collegiality.

According to Business Insider, “The CEOs of Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan have said remote work is a solution for some, but not all, and larger companies like Disney and Starbucks have recently updated their requirements for employees to work in offices at least a few days per week.”.

Changing the Workplace, Entrepreneur, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonSeptember 29, 2023Covid-19, Workplace Culture, Workplace AdviceComment

Power Up: Learn How To Create Harmony At Work & More At Conference

Who hasn’t had a work experience that incites tension and discomfort? And who doesn’t want to change that?

How you lead with a more positive culture is the centerpiece of one of several roundtables at the Power Up Conference & Concert, Lead Your Intention, on Women’s Equality Day in person and virtually August 26.

Post-Pandemic Work Life Reboot: 7 Key Tips for Millennial Women To Start Now

By Megan Hudson

It’s no secret the Covid-19 pandemic turned the world on its axis and changed every facet of life as we know it. Offices emptied and busy cities went quiet for months on end until finally earlier this year the smoke began to clear.

In the post-pandemic era, we ushered in our new normal. It’s been a long and continuous period of adjustment that has not come without its challenges.

Pivotal Moments: Why Gender Equality in Leadership Is Coming

Issue 229 — May 22, 2023

My grandmother was a Bolshevik.

Grandmother Rose was anything but revolutionary by the time she was my primary caregiver during my preschool years in Temple, Texas. She came to America in 1920 to marry her fiancée from their home town in Lithuania, had two children, and learned to play domestic arts like the other traditional housewives in the neighborhood.

The SumGloria FeldtMay 22, 2023Workplace Culture, gender equality, Progress Comment

Prioritize Your Mental Health: How To Address Concerns Affecting You And Your Work

A bubble bath is not going to fix much. Nor is one “mental health day” on a calendar of hundreds of stress-filled workdays going to make it all better.

As May is Mental Health Awareness Month, it is critical to address the crisis of mental health for women in the workplace and also to acknowledge what Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine and founder of Gemma, calls “faux self-care.”

Changing Tide? What Top Firings For Workplace Harassment Mean & What You Can Do

It’s about time. Consequences for those committing sexual harassment at work is having a moment—lots of moments. And those consequences run all the way to the top of large organizations. In media and entertainment, FOX News fired high profile host Tucker Carlson in wake of sexual harassment allegations. Actor F. Murray Abraham was fired from “Mythic Quest” for sexual jokes. Journalist Don Lemon was fired from CNN for sexist and ageist comments on air as well as misogynistic treatment of colleagues. NBC Universal announced CEO Jeff Shell was out of there for an inappropriate relationship.

Changing the Workplace, Movement BuildingMichele WeldonApril 28, 2023Sexual Harassment, Workplace Culture, me too, Times UpComment

Equity in The Balance: Catalyst Winners On DEI Tools To Change Work Culture

This is not checking the box for diversity for the sake of claiming diversity. This is about leaders and their global organizations that are making a difference to create equity in the workplace, communities and the world.

At their recent Catalyst Awards 2023, the global nonprofit founded in 1962 to “accelerate and advance women into leadership” applauded an exceptional roster of those at the helms of “forward-thinking organizations that are developing new and innovative ways to advance gender equity and strengthen their organizations.”

Making The Best of It All: Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur On Leading With Energy, Intention

Learning about your circadian rhythms—your forever biological clock—can inform how you work and lead your life. It can also give you the energy you need to find and fulfill your entrepreneurship goals and “do it without being exhausted,” says Amy Leigh Looper, founder and CEO of Leading Motherhood.

Job Search Blues? 3 Strategies To Ease Anxiety

Job search anxiety is one of the many factors that may hold women back from professional development. HR Dive showed that 84% of women have the skills to advance their careers, but most of these female professionals feel anxious about their next career moves compared to their male counterparts. The younger ones, in particular, think their skill sets are not useful in the workplace and that their next career move is outside their control.

The good news is that you can overcome job search anxiety and gain control over your professional advancement. To address this dilemma, you must understand the root causes of job search anxiety and identify strategies that can address them.

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