What is preventing you from asserting yourself with your peers, manager, team members, prospects, customers and suppliers? Do you worry about being rude or pushy or how others will perceive you? Are you concerned about having a confrontation? Having spent most of my 35 years in business in male dominated environments, I have watched the
“As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name Of The Wind A wonderful jumble and organisation of letters creates a single word. A single word; one that can create power, strength of focus, encapsulate
For those of us who are of a particular vintage, there is an iconic scene in the movie Pretty Woman, where a character says these words: ‘Welcome to Hollywood… what’s your dream?’ So many of us have a dream, or a plan for our future reality; a vision of what our lives and businesses should
Anyone who writes for their business understands how amazing it feels when someone comments in a positive way on a blog post, or shares out an article. It’s still wonderful to me after over four years’ worth of weekly blog posts – in other words, approximately two hundred unique posts, just for this platform alone
If you are a quiet woman longing to speak up, this will confirm your worst fears. When women talk more than men in meetings, there is instant backlash. When women behave the way men behave at work, there is instant backlash. And whether the women work in politics or in business, women are treated harshly
