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.
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.
The great resignation is here, and a lot of engineers and technical professionals are asking: should I quit my job right now? Learn 6 questions to ask yourself to determine if you should stay in your current role or quit right now, including insights into the ideal time to leave a job (see #4) if you want to get the biggest salary bump.
How can you position yourself in the best way possible to fast track your STEM career in the next 90 days and beyond? Based on our research and interviews with successful women in STEM, these are the top three practical moves you can make that will fast-track your career path. Immediately apply them to position yourself for STEM career success on your terms and quickly move the needle in your own career.
Struggling to figure out what's next for you in your engineering career? Here are 6 must-ask questions to help you figure out what you want. If you've hit a career plateau or glass ceiling, these reflection questions will help you start the process of getting unstuck. If you're setting career goals, these are must-ask reflection questions to do prior to setting them so that you can make sure goals are meaningful to YOU, and not just another item on your manager's to-do list. Determining what you want is the first step to having a successful and fulfilling career on your terms.
How can you take the job you feel “meh” about it and turn it into something more fulfilling? This is the subject of today’s blog, the second in a two-part series that discusses how I created more fulfillment through a process I accidentally stumbled upon called Job Crafting. We teamed with SE Impact to give a webinar on this topic last week, and you can see the full video in this blog, as well as get a worksheet to help you use this process to create your own career happiness.
Do you feel fulfilled at work? The answer is “no” for many engineers. This blog is part 1 of 2 to look at one of the key reasons we don’t feel fulfilled, and what you can do about it. If you’ve been wondering why you’ve lost your work “mojo” - or perhaps didn’t have it to begin with at your current job - this blog is a must-read.
