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 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.
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!
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.
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.
Want to make your engineering career resistant to the uncertainties of the economy? Focus on your business development skillsets. This blog uncovers why engineers resist learning these skills and 5 specific strategies you can use to start the process, even if you only have a few years of technical experience and hate traditional networking.
