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.
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.”
Almost 80% of women in engineering and technology have reported feeling like a fraud at work. It’s so common that it’s known as imposter syndrome, and it’s a result of a work environment that tells you in subtle and sometimes blatant ways that you don’t belong. Learn 3 immediately applicable strategies to stop feeling like a fraud or imposter at work.
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.
Can’t wait to ditch 2020? You aren’t alone. But here’s the thing - if you want to do great things in the new year, you’ve got to ditch the 2020 baggage you’re carrying around so that you can not just survive but thrive in the new normal. This short post includes a must-do 15-minute exercise to reset your brain to see your potential, embrace your inner boss, and crush it in 2021.
