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?”
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.”
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.
Managing high emotions and conflict in STEM is a skill that leaders master, and it's one that no one tells you is required to not just get ahead, but navigate your technical career with less stress and more ease.
Learn our 4-step SOAR framework to manage high emotions during conflict or other triggering events in your STEM career like microaggressions or clashes with your manager/staff.
Getting motivated to make career decisions and trigger action in your STEM career is the hallmark of a successful career. Yet, often we find ourselves going through the motions, spending all day in our email inboxes, and feeling like we never have the time to take a step back and reflect on where we want to go and how we are showing up at work. Learn a simple framework to craft the right question to ask, and five examples used routinely with my clients to quickly cut to the heart of the issue and get you energized and more importantly, taking action!
You’re a master at getting things done, yet you struggle to decide - let alone achieve - your professional career goals. Learn the 4 ways you're setting your career goals wrong and what to do differently so that you can stop setting goals you don't complete and achieve your biggest career aspirations.
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.
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.
Worried about keeping your engineering job or finding a new one? Struggling with stress and anxiety because of job insecurities but not sure what you can do? In this special blog and video interview with engineer & life coach Gina Covarrubias, we uncover why we get stuck in these cycles of fear (it’s NOT for the reason you think!), how those feelings can sabatoge our work and job hunts, and how to get out of that cycle so you can confidently keep the job you have or find a new one when needed.
