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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. The recommendation from Harvard Business Review and Catalyst is for organizations to adopt formal sponsorship programs similar to IBM Europe. High performing women need to take control of their own career advancement.

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

Women on Business

Bennett Organizations working on raising awareness of inclusiveness and why it is essential for businesses to survive are well served by advocacy programming. Bennett Organizations working on raising awareness of inclusiveness and why it is essential for businesses to survive are well served by advocacy programming.

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Byron Wien’s 20 Lessons Learned

Michael Lee Stallard

While working at Morgan Stanley in New York City, I met and discovered the writings of several thoughtful market analysts. Organize discussion groups to bring your thoughtful friends together. Do the numbers crunching in the early phase of your career. Short-cuts can be construed as sloppiness, a career killer.

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How To Have A Scroogeless Holiday-5 Charitable Giving Strategies.

Women on Business

At this time of year, charitable organizations like Goodwill, the Salvation Army and community shelters need old coats, sweaters, jeans, boots and other items of clothing. Many of these organizations will also happily accept furnitire and household items, and will sometimes even pick up the items. Stock-it to them!

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Shut-up & Listen | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to. Jettisoned employees are finding that their hard won knowledge, skills and capabilities earned while being loyal are no longer valuable in the employment market place. Organizations train people. None of these assumptions apply today.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is why a value based approach to recruiting is a key component when teaming-out the organization, and is especially important as you build a senior leadership group. Here’s the thing – leaders who allow toxic personalities to invade their culture put the health of their entire organization at risk.

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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. Gossip destroys trust, undermines credibility, and is one of the greatest adversaries of a healthy corporate culture.

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