Are Companies Doing Enough to Retain and Prepare Women for Leadership?

The answer is: probably not. After all, when we look at what is happening right now in the C-suites, we see women are still under-represented. Here are the facts: Women…

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10 Tips On How To Be A Great Mentoring Partner

  Entrepreneurs and women on the career track tell me over and over that one of their primary desires is to have a great mentor. I’ve discovered that great mentoring…

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Raise Your Expectations and Your Mentoring Program Will Blossom

For decades, psychologists have been researching what they call the "Pygmalion effect":  how one person’s expectations of another can become a self-fulfilling prophesy. This is as important in the realm…

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Actionable Feedback – The Only Kind You Want to Give or Get

“Great job!”   “Atta girl!”   “Way to go!”  "YES!" It feels so good to hear those words, most of the time and for about 30-60 seconds. One reason this…

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Women & the Mentorship-Sponsorship Combo: The Fuel Your Career Needs

Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, Indra Nooyi, Tina Fey and I all had mentors who dramatically influenced our careers. In fact, we can’t imagine how we would have gotten where we…

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Small Businesses CAN Have Effective Mentoring Programs

What makes any mentoring program successful, no matter the size of your company, is this: “A mentorship program needs to have a path to leadership or advancement for the mentees.”

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