Insights for Working Women Working It Out
How to Have Productive Career Conversations with Your Employees
The arrival of autumn often spurs people to think about role adjustments, career changes, or general questions along the lines of: What’s next for me? Q4 is a great time to hold thoughtful, productive career conversations with your employees. Here's my five-step approach to conducting 1:1 conversations with your team members, using a 'career audit' tool to spark discussion.
How to Navigate a Career Crossroads by Exploring Your Ecosystem
To thrive in your career, you need an environment that is conducive to growth, learning, and fulfillment. Let’s take a look at how auditing your current ‘ecosystem’ can help you navigate decisions at a career crossroads.
A 6-Step Approach to Tidying Up…Your Career
Marie Kondo’s six-step approach to getting organized is focused, practical, and aptly tidy. What if you applied the same methodology to your career?
New Year, New Career: 7 Steps to Making a Move in 2024 Without Spending a Penny
Looking to make a career move this year, but don’t have oodles of time or money to invest in the process? Here are seven simple steps you can take that still make an impact — without breaking the bank.
Advice from 5 Working Women Who Made a Career Leap
As we enjoy the slumber of summer days, great ideas often come in waves. Now is an opportune time to reflect on what you want and how you can make moves through the end of the year. Here are five insights to consider from women who made successful career changes.
Authentic Leadership: 7 Ways to Be a Mindful Leader
No matter how you get to the top of your ladder, the highest rung is only as steady as the prior rungs you have set up for yourself. From my perspective as a new leader, here are seven realizations and remedies for leading with more self-awareness, mindfulness, and authenticity.
On Starting a New Job: How to Navigate with Competence and Confidence
If you’re starting something new or experiencing any kind of learning curve in life right now — I see you, and I’m right there with you. Here are some ways I’ve been approaching my own (in)competence this month while working on a big project outside of my comfort zone. I hope they might inspire you too.
How to Leverage Women During Women’s History Month
What are women asking for? Flexibility. Recognition. Variety. Opportunities. These asks aren’t out of reach. So how can we better leverage women to find true fulfillment and success in the modern workforce?
Show Some Career Love: How to Have Intentional Career Conversations with Your Team
Career conversations are great opportunities to talk with each employee about their aspirations, strengths, and gaps to ensure they are equipped for success. So…why are so many leaders shying away from having these conversations on a regular basis? Let’s explore seven ways to lead with curiosity and intentionality.
5 Ways to be a DEI Leader in the Workplace
As a leader, how do you build a strong team where everyone belongs to prevent the dreaded domino effect of quitting? To ensure that every single one of your employees feels included in your culture at work, here are five avenues to explore.
5 Ways to Brew Your Personal Vision in 2023
New year, new cheer: anchor your goals and motivation for 2023 by reflecting on your personal vision. Read on for five steps to boost your vision-setting this year.
5 Takeaways from Working with Women in 2022
2022 marked a return to more in-person gatherings and events — which was bliss for many and bothersome for others, but certainly helped forge deeper connections and new discoveries. Having partaken in several inspiring conversations as a panelist, trainer, coach, and attendee, here are five lessons that I’m carrying into 2023.
5 Post-Marathon Lessons for Running + Life
A follow up to my earlier blog — how training to run the marathon is similar to exploring your career. The experience itself was also reflective of what it takes to stick to your aspiration and milestones along the way. Here are my five big takeaways.
Exploring Your Next Career Move is like Training for a Marathon
The past few weeks got me thinking — and I do have lots of time to think as I huff and puff on my training runs – about my incredible clients. More often than not, they seek out coaching because they are at a career crossroads and looking for the next thing…and this process of career exploration is so very aligned with the experience of training for a marathon.
7 Ways to Get Your Voice in the (Meeting) Room
I recently wrote about how people overestimate the attention they are receiving from others, which can cause anxiety about speaking up at work: also known as spotlight theory. This is a common phenomenon, but one that you can certainly overcome — here are seven ideas to shift your perspective and increase your presence in meetings.
Leading Others is like Sunday Dinner: 5 Ways to Lead with Consideration and Inclusion
Leading a team is a bit like making dinner for the whole family. It takes a lot of time and effort — and sometimes you spend hours putting together a plate that you think everyone will like, and everyone at the table complains. So, how do you shift to a culture where people feel encouraged to speak up and voice their concerns, but not just complain? Here are five tips.
The Domino Effect: 7 Tips for More Effective Networking
With the right approach, networking can be much like dominoes — some careful set-up and patience are required, but one tiny-yet-focused flick of the finger can cause an enormously successful effect.
In the Room: Three Ways to Encourage Women to Speak Up in Meetings
Recently, in back-to-back coaching sessions, I heard the exact same story from four women in very different roles — ranging from VP to support staff, but they shared the same refrain. ‘I am fully aware of my competence, but speaking up is hard and awkward, and I don’t want to say the wrong thing, sound silly, or not look professional by formulating it the wrong way.’ Sound familiar?
The Benefits of Group Coaching: How to Build Community & Connections for Women
During tough career conversations in a group setting, there is often a collective sigh of relief and gratitude: as women, we can work together to break down shared concerns and fears in support of everyone’s growth and transformation. If you are looking to hold space for more ‘blistered’ conversations, here are five things to bear in mind.
The Four ‘P’s of Working Things Out at Work
Back in 2020, fellow coach Allison Attenello and I designed a workshop called “Working Women Working It Out” — specific to the challenges women were facing in 2020, with the goal of uncovering ways to support them in getting through this period. The following four Ps emerged through our group’s discussion, which still very much hold true today.