Post by Jane K. Stimmler, contributing Women on Business writer. It's a new year with new opportunities. Maybe there are things you want to change about yourself, or perhaps you have a desire for change on a more global scale. Do you want to get ahead in your workplace? Change the culture of your organization? See more women rise to the top? Whatever modification you want … [Read more...]
Leadership at Home: Know Your “Valentine” Guy
Traditionalist or rebel? Yes, you; and what about your primary relationship? How do you give him what will be remembered in the best gift ever department? How do you make today super special, an “ OMG Day?” First, since my career is focused on leadership, let me put together two key concepts that are at the core of the Total Leadership Connections program. IT IS AN … [Read more...]
Leadership Strategies and a New Verbal Diet
This time of year you can count on tons (pardon the pun) of ways to diet. Eat more of this, less of that. You can just do protein and veggies, or maybe the newest, most amazing carb to hit the town from the African bush. Well, I have another idea. How about changing your verbal diet? Think about it, would you only eat hamburgers for a month without anything else? “Of course … [Read more...]
Leadership and the Art of Asking
How often do you ask for what you want? Better yet, do you get what you ask for? In our WELL Program (Women Executive Leadership Lessons) we have a module on the power and importance of asking for what you want. It usually brings up lots of memories of being a "good girl" as a kid, or of hearing parents say "it’s not polite to ask, just wait till you are given". Most women … [Read more...]
Women Leadership Lessons and Tackling Tension
Long plane rides often bring me fresh ideas, or at least give me time to think in fresh, new ways. Flying from Newark to San Francisco is perfect. Just about six hours with little distraction from my writing and musings. Sometimes! On this particular plane were a brother and a sister, two or so years apart, I guessed. They were attractive, well behaved children whose parents … [Read more...]
Altruism at Work
During the 1940’s, Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin argued that industrial societies needed to transform themselves by developing a more integrated, holistic, and systemic approach to the world – what he called creative altruism. He discussed the idea that there is a part of the brain that is programmed for altruism. He discussed this way before we had any of the … [Read more...]