What STEM leadership lessons can we learn from the Barbie? Learn 5 insights you can apply immediately on your career journey, including the power of integrating emotion and logic, challenging norms, avoiding conformity, embracing imperfection, and finding insights in unexpected places.
Are you ready for your next performance review? Learn a 4-step method to effectively prepare. Know your goals, align them strategically, quantify value, and make confident asks to succeed.
What are practical actions organizations can take to retain more women in STEM? This blog – designed for managers and leaders in organizations - shares 9 actions to take to improve the retention of women in your firm.
The path to a leadership role can feel like a mystery. What if there’s a roadmap you can follow? In interviews with more than 100 women emerging and current STEM leaders and allies, we found 6 common types of catalyst career moments that led to women leaders' current roles. Find out what those 6 moments are so you can create your own success path and help others build theirs.
Where should organizations focus their strategic efforts to retain women in STEM? Learn the 5 patterns that emerged from the She Leads STEM 100 Leaders project when current and aspiring leaders were asked: “What have your current or previous organizations done to support and keep you?”
The path to a leadership role can feel like a mystery. What if there’s a roadmap you can follow? In interviews with more than 100 women emerging and current STEM leaders and allies, we found 6 common types of catalyst career moments that led to women leaders' current roles. Find out what those 6 moments are so you can create your own success path and help others build theirs.
What skill sets do you need to develop for an accelerated leadership path? What skill sets set up mentees aspiring to leadership for success? This blog provides an overview of the 6 skill sets from the She Leads STEM 100 Leaders project that ambitious professionals and organizations building their leadership pipeline can use to focus their professional development training.
As a leader, your words matter. If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to facilitate a group brainstorming session or needing to give sensitive feedback to someone you work with, this video shares a simple, practical tool that encourages thoughtful and continued discussion and makes it easier to both generate innovative ideas and give sensitive feedback. Try it out today!
Self-advocacy is essential for advancement but can feel inauthentic to many STEM professionals. Learn 3 easy ways to authentically advocate for yourself so that key decision-makers at work are aware of your achievements, skills, and interests, without the accompanying feelings of “ick” that can accompany traditional techniques of “tooting your own horn.”
Many technical professionals - and especially women - struggle to get useful feedback. Feedback is a critical data point for career growth, without which you can find yourself stagnate because you don't know how you are being perceived at work. Learn how to turn subjective feedback or no feedback at all into feedback you can take action on so that you can accelerate your STEM career growth.
Successful women are boundary evangelists. They set and enforce firm boundaries as a foundational stepping stone to getting the respect they deserve at work and have a life outside of work too. You’ll learn 7 practical tips for establishing healthy boundaries in your STEM career, all without coming across as rude, b**chy, or someone who isn't a team player.
3 bad work habits cause stress and sabotage your STEM career progression, which I see consistently in my coaching practice. These habits manifest as feeling unappreciated and overlooked at work, exhaustion from working too much, stress, and sometimes even burnout. Hear what they are and what you can do about them so they don't hold you back from a career on your terms.
How do you know when it’s time to quit your job and move on, especially if you’re job falls into the “Not terrible but not great” category? Here are 3 unobvious warning signs that are early indicators you should look for a new position. If you started out in a particular career path or role and loved it, but now it’s not-so-great and you’re trying to decide if you should stay or go, this blog will help you make that decision.
