Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: Own The Confidence As Successful Women

If Viola Davis has it, then we’re all doomed. Or maybe, we’re all in good company and can figure out a way to overcome it.

And The Winner Is: What We're Missing In Choosing One Winner At A Time

The announcement email is sent around and the name of the executive who everyone said would make the board is right there. He’s about to hit send on his email to the PR person about how glad he is to be joining the board and when, wait, there’s been a mistake and sorry, big mistake, it’s you—the woman who was meant to win it all along. Now he feels what—humiliated, weird, angry—and you feel a joy that is immediately undercut by your own doubt as well as maybe a few whispers as to why you got the nod to take the one empty seat.

For Women in The Workplace, Does Loving Your Job Matter?

Washington Post publisher and owner Katharine Graham reportedly once said, “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how can anything be more fun?”

Career successMichele WeldonFebruary 21, 20179 Power Tools, Career, happiness, Michele Weldon, women in the workplaceComment

New Year Promise: Be Positive and Avoid Toxic Traits As Women Leaders

It’s the time of year when it seems most everyone is making resolutions for the New Year and also perhaps finalizing hiring plans for 2017.

Career successIlona JerabekDecember 20, 2016Authentic Leadership, business, Career, women leadersComment

Do You Really Like Me? Tips To Increase The Nice Factor Just Enough

Everyone wants to have cordial relationships at work; everyone wants to be liked. No one wants to be the hated boss or co-worker. No one wants to avoid someone in the office because of her unpredictability.

Career successMichele WeldonNovember 22, 2016business, female entrepreneurs, likeability, Michele Weldon, women leadersComment

Great News: Women Owned Businesses Growing, Thriving, Employing More

The 11.3 million women-owned firms in this country are performing five times better than the national average of businesses, employing close to 9 million people and generating over $1.6 trillion in revenues, according to the latest American Express OPEN report.

Career successMichele WeldonNovember 15, 2016business, Career, Change, Michele Weldon, women in the workplace, Women's LeadershipComment

Legal Wrangling: Closing The Gender Pay Gap For Women Lawyers

Sure, Viola Davis portraying Analise Keating, the brilliant attorney and law professor in ABC-TV’s “How To Get Away With Murder” may have changed the image of successful female lawyers, but women attorneys in this country in real life are not getting away with much.

Career successMichele WeldonOctober 31, 2016Career, leadership parity, pay gap, Women in Law, women leadersComment

Winner Take All: Do Awards Matter In The Career Growth of Women Leaders?

It can be a small glass prism with your name engraved on the base, one that you display on your desk for a few months, then on a bookshelf, then in a drawer, then throw away a few years later if you change jobs or move your office.

4 More: Adding Women to Corporate Boards Progress Toward Women Leadership Equity Goal

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, 24 Fortune 500 companies had no women on their boards as of March 2016. The bad news is that the majority of these 24 companies have failed to do anything about this problem, despite the attention the women on boards issue has received lately.

Career successOlga MackOctober 6, 2016gender parity, progress, women in the workplace, women leaders, women on boardsComment

Smile And Be Happy: How to Measure Happiness For Women In The Workplace?

None of us can grin from ear to ear every minute of every day at work. But being happy with what we do professionally matters. Still, we wonder, is achieving happiness at work a goal or a natural byproduct of meaningful work?

It’s a topic we have tackled before at Take The Lead and one worth revisiting.

Flexible Career Solutions: More Work Harder Working Where They Wish

To everyone who started her workday in her pajamas and takes a lunch break with a stroll to the couch, congratulations. You may be more productive than your friend who commuted to the office today.

Career successMichele WeldonSeptember 6, 2016business, Career, Change, communication, female entrepreneursComment

Code You: How Workplace Style Has Shifted For Women Leaders, Entrepreneurs

Before I began my first job out of graduate school in 1979 as a managing editor of a regional magazine, my sister Madeleine, a lawyer, took me shopping. She insisted I buy a handful of blouses with bow ties at the neck in white, beige and black, plus a few black and gray skirts below the knee and a tan blazer I hated.

View Newsletter Archive

Info

Action