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Cultivate Intangible Leadership Skills for Future Success

October 19, 2016 By Lisa McKale

Think about a female leader you admire and consider the qualities that woman possesses. She’s particularly cool under pressure. She’s focused but not rigid. She can take a bad experience and address it, then let it go. She … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: career advice, confidence, intangible, leadership style, qualities, success

Make Up Your Mind: The Informed Decision Maker’s Guide

October 14, 2016 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

A special report from the Pennsylvania Conference for Women Got a big decision to make? Maybe this can help… When it comes to decision making, women have an advantage, said psychologist Therese Huston at the “How We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: career advice, decision making, leadership skills, leadership style

4 Ways to Become a More Inclusive Leader

October 7, 2016 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Do you encourage and develop the best in your team? Do you shine the spotlight on others’ accomplishments? Do you make sure everyone’s voice is heard? If you can answer yes to these questions, you are an inclusive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership, Leadership Skills Tagged With: inclusion, inclusive leader, inclusive leadership

Speak (Up) Now, Or Forever Hold Your Career

October 5, 2016 By Lisa McKale

How many times have you left a meeting mentally going over what was said—and realize a really important point was totally overlooked? “Darn, I should have brought that up! Now, no one is going to realize it could be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: Assertive, Career development, Communication, confidence, Gender Equality, leadership style

Embrace ‘Singletasking’ As a Leadership Strategy

September 7, 2016 By Lisa McKale

For most women leaders, that age-old concept of “killing two birds with one stone” often ends up in an avalanche of rocks under a flurry of feathers. It’s not that we can’t manage several projects at once—we know a thing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: leadership, multitasking, singletasking, time management, work ethic

Friends in High Places: Finding a Sponsor to Advance Your Career

August 16, 2016 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

“I threw your hat into the ring for that job. Expect a call.” Wouldn’t it be great to get that message from a senior executive telling you about what could be your next career move? How do you find the right person to take … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: female executive sponsor, finding a sponsor, sponsor or mentor

Free Your Mind: Use These Steps for Effective Delegating

August 10, 2016 By Lisa McKale

“I can’t seem to get out from under this week; it seems like the minute I cross one thing off my task list, three more take its place!!” A common problem uber-efficient women leaders have is knowing when to delegate, or in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: career advice, decision making, delegating, leadership style, Supervising, training

4 Top Leadership Skills: Do You Have Them All?

July 22, 2016 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Let’s decode leadership. That was the basis of new research that identified certain types of leadership behavior that most strongly correlate to nearly 90% of leadership effectiveness. Researchers first recognized 20 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills

Time-suckers: Here’s what’s guilty of eating up your (and your team’s) time today

July 18, 2016 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

We’re guessing you already knew tech is a big distraction in the workplace. But what exactly causes the most distractions? Is it truly email, like most people believe? CareerBuilder recently did a survey to find out.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills Tagged With: Leadership Advice

Getting to CEO: How Other Women Did It

July 14, 2016 By Lynn Varacalli Cavanaugh

Mary Barra, now CEO of General Motors, began her career with the company as a college co-op student. Mylan CEO Heather Bresch literally started out hers on the bottom, typing labels in the basement of the company’s plant. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Leadership Skills

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