Your Voice Deserves To be Heard
Speaking with confidence is a great way to portray yourself better at work. You know that you need to keep your shoulders back, your head up, and your eyes on the person you’re speaking to. In order to put your best foot forward, however, there are several key phrases you should practice until you’re able…
Collaboration. The word alone is enough to bring back the anxiety flashbacks from the high school group projects. You already know that you are not the slacker of the group, but you have to steel yourself to get through the project with that one employee who believes he has all the answers and wildly ignores the…
People fear public speaking more than death, according to The Huffington Post, but what if not speaking up results in something even more frightening? Sometimes, it can be hard to know where to begin. Whether you are wanting to get your idea out there, or speak up against workplace injustice, here are a few phrases to help…
Confidence is key in the workplace, especially for female professionals. By definition, confidence is knowing that you are capable of something, which is exactly what employers are looking for when they choose someone to trust with an important task. But sometimes, confidence can cross a fine line and turn into arrogance. Where confidence is a positive…
Within the professional domain, traits which are typically viewed as masculine are still highly valued: assertiveness, ability to negotiate, confidence, and yes, even a level of aggressiveness is still sometimes looked upon with respect. With the influx of women taking more roles in management, that perception is shifting towards more inclusion to a variety of communication…
Young girls are constantly being shown by others that being assertive does not equate with being nice. Their parents, as well as society, models for them that being nice is best. The problem with these messages is that they require them to deny their own truths in order to appease someone else. They grow up…
Have you ever found yourself saying, “I’m sorry…” to someone who’s being rude to you? Or mumbling, “Pardon me…” as a stranger knocks you out of the way? Or have you ever found yourself feeling guilty about responding to an email later than the minute you receive it, and so starting your response off with,…
It’s 2016, and sexism should be a thing of the past. Even if you know, however, that the gender balance isn’t completely equal, you may not be aware just how prevalent small biases continue to be, especially in the workplace. These little biases may appear in the form of gendered insults in the workplace, often against…
Last month a coaching client named Sophia said she needed to talk about a relationship that had hit a troubled patch. She started by telling me that the friendship was about a year old, so this was the first real argument they’ve had. There had been some red flags early on (lying about silly things)…
Negotiating for Salary as a Woman is an undervalued skill that invariably results in women being judged harshly in just about any industry. Why the double standard should still exist is beyond me, but it’s hardly a surprise that it does. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the wage gap between men and women…