Asserting Yourself Tactfully

April 1st, 2016|Categories: Inspiration, Leadership Skills|Tags: , , , |

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

#WORDUP 2016

December 21st, 2015|Categories: Gender Diversity, Inspiration, Leadership Skills, News, Women in Leadership|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

“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

CREATE DIVERGENT MOMENTS

November 30th, 2015|Categories: Gender Diversity, Inspiration, Leadership Skills, Women in Leadership|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Embrace diversity, breed new thinking, collaborate, allow the crazy ideas to breathe and create those often insane divergent moments because this is the only way we are ever going to create the future we dream of right here and now before it becomes a present that passes us by. It’s almost as if the repeat

Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Why Women Stay Quiet at Work

January 13th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

Years ago, while producing the hit TV series “The Shield,” Glen Mazzara noticed that two young female writers were quiet during story meetings. He pulled them aside and encouraged them to speak up more. Watch what happens when we do, they replied. Almost every time they started to speak, they were interrupted or shot down

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