Women on Business

DECEMBER 19, 2012

That’s the question the team from Kickstart Kitchen is asking, and already, some great lessons are included in their Lessons Learned in 2012 Pinterest board. “Translate big goals into small daily bites.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: What’s the best business lesson you learned this year?

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Sheryl explains that leaders like Mark Zuckerberg who have big and inspiring goals for their businesses motivate their teams. During the discussion, Sheryl shared her three tips to build a business : 1.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 18, 2012

With our driven, goal-oriented nature, we tend to put a lot of pressure on ourselves to do better, achieve more, and overall, work harder. There’s often a legitimate reason for the negativity within a team. Use it to work towards positive goals, like breaking a sales record or winning an industry award. Find out Why.

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MARCH 5, 2011

Communicating means leaders share some of their “privileged information” with their teams. It is not uncommon for leaders to come from an Executive Staff meeting where details of what has happened, and what the next steps are going to be, are shared with the Executive team. Communicate your goals clearly. About the Author.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The key to being a great manager is to monitor your staff’s performance, identify strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately make sure your team is working productively. Whilst these methods work great on a longer term scale, staff need incentives on a more regular basis in order to reach goals and gain work life satisfaction.

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Women on Business

MAY 24, 2012

Make your goal specific. He reminds the team of why they are fighting, tears are shed and they go out to conquer. These are your goals and achieving them means others will not. Reaching an important and ambitious goal requires steps. If you want that promotion do not think about Jims career path at all. Strategize.

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Women on Business

JULY 3, 2012

And if you’d like to increase your online exposure to better position yourself to reach your goals, consider joining the Women on Business writing team or submit a guest post. Take a few minutes to browse the new site and let us know what you think!

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 31, 2012

How can you achieve your goals to reach the top? Meg Whitman , former CEO of eBay and current CEO of Hewlett-Packard, said managing is the same in any economy, “It’s the discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs and building a world-class management team.”. How did they do it?

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Women tend to lead from a more interactive, cooperative style which often results in strengthening the sense-of-team in employees or as we say at Great Place to Work “we are all in this together,” inspiring a higher degree of commitment to strive to achieve the business’ goals.

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Women on Business

JUNE 13, 2012

I would also compete against others but more on a team or company vs company basis then individually. In the long run improving your skills helps the company but you do not want the process to cause challenges now, that is not the goal. Do not lose sight of your goals. As a woman I have always been competitive against myself.

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Women on Business

JULY 25, 2012

We have done the United Way program for six years and our fundraising goals keep increasing. Entire teams will volunteer together and we have an intranet site where we upload photos and give employees kudos so that people are acknowledged. BW: What advice do you have for other companies considering similar programs and goals?

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Women on Business

MARCH 14, 2012

First, we look at the core values and needs of today’s female entrepreneur with her multidisciplinary lifestyle, personal and spiritual desires, financial goals and simplistic nurturing side that asks to be fulfilled on a daily basis, does this all come into play when creating an innovative brand for yourself and business, you bet!

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APRIL 25, 2012

Passion for life and business is what excites us to jump out of bed in the morning and set out to accomplish our goals. If you are a professional with a team around you see what tasks you can delegate to someone else.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The opportunity to be a part of a team that works together toward a common goal. If sitting on a board is one of your goals, it is important to learn how to communicate your value and to network strategically so others know what you can bring to the table. The opportunity to build relationships that will bring you business.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The rigid adherence to airline’s policies screams to me a lack of strategy by O’Leary and his management team. Shouldn’t the ultimate goal be fulfilling a need, not creating another revenue stream for your competitors? So the charge is really a hostile convenience charge. Flexibility is a sign of business acumen.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The rigid adherence to airline’s policies screams to me a lack of strategy by O’Leary and his management team. Shouldn’t the ultimate goal be fulfilling a need, not creating another revenue stream for your competitors? So the charge is really a hostile convenience charge. Flexibility is a sign of business acumen.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

You should be running, not walking to find who they are and how you can team up and benefit from each other. This new strategic alliance will enable each of you to grow more rapidly as you have a sales team working on your behalf. Build a High Performing Internal Team. It makes so much sense to work smarter and not harder!

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That’s what one manager recently shared with me about how much time she spends getting new Gen Y team members on board. Yes it is — if you learn how to leverage this new talent by focusing Gen Y behaviors on business goals and setting metrics for results. “They’re so high maintenance!” She wonders: Is it worth it?

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Women on Business

MARCH 8, 2011

Today’s professionals are focused on developing their skill sets and seek the training, the resources and the people that can help them achieve their goals. The goal is to ensure the information gets to employees as efficiently and effectively as possible and helps them take action. 4. Expand employee networks.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Develop your web of influence (key stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, connectors) to assist you in reaching your goal. If you have the goal of sitting in the C-Suite, start by communicating this goal to others and find out how you can get a sponsor to take you under his/her wings and move you up the ranks.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

By Maribeth Kuzmeski Are you looking to add new individuals to your team in 2011? If you want a team of dedicated employees working diligently to accomplish goals, helping each other succeed, and helping you reach new heights in your business, consider a guilt-prone hire. Translation: Guilt is good!!

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? It is common this time of year to set goals. We’re often so much better at setting the goals than keeping on track until we reach our destination.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style. So toss them away (goals and jelly shoes) and bring your goals up-to-date. You don’t need more than three to five goals to stay on track and move your business to the next level. What would Jane Fonda say?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

How often have you found yourself avoiding challenges and playing it safe, sticking to goals you knew would be easy for you to reach? In addition to her work as author and co-editor of the highly-regarded academic book The Psychology of Goals (Guilford, 2009), she has authored papers in her field’s most prestigious journals.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I once stood on a chair yelling at a team (a senior team, several titles above me) telling them to stop acting like spoiled, petulant children. But I still need to remind myself that being liked is not my goal—it is a secondary outcome and sugary sweet is not the way to get there. Visit her blog: www.LeadershipMutt.com.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Address personal fears, listen to your own instincts and intuition, and start believing in yourself to have the tenacity and drive to see your goal of business ownership actualize. Offer support to others with similar goals of business ownership. Be proactive; take action Sometimes our biggest obstacle to success is ourselves!

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

If, for example, you are trying to find out from one of your team why their colleague didn’t include the requested statistics in a report you were just handed, something along the lines of, “Is he having trouble finding them? At the very least, approaching it in this way narrows the scope of the inquiry.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

When you understand the value of employees you are able to manage wisely , invest in them and achieve a common goal. Planning for the unthinkable is a strategic step in ensuring the business legacy will continue past the current leadership team. It can be used for an essential Key Man policy and much more.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

The goal is to get a response from 1,500 women over the next 90 days. “Dear Diary&# is a questionnaire designed specifically for women to gather feedback on their thoughts around achievement, fulfillment and relationships, past, present and future. . Will you help?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Finally, don’t go to networking events with the goal of giving out as many business cards as you can. Be strategic about give-aways. What product or service positions you best? What will provide a good intro so that people will want to purchase more? Collecting cards from the people you have good conversations with is much more important.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

As we approach a new year and an opportunity for that fresh start, look no further than inside yourself to keep a resolution, start a new habit, break an old one, be a better person, achieve new business goals, find a job, etc. So look no further because “there’s no place like home.”

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

She is liked by her peers and develops the people on her teams. We expect to work hard to attain this goal. She has deep community roots in the major metropolitan area in which she works and she has shown great promise in promoting the organization in the market. She also plans to leave the company and possibly industry altogether.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

As men and women work together on business focused goals everyone learns. Bennett Organizations working on raising awareness of inclusiveness and why it is essential for businesses to survive are well served by advocacy programming. Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Getting our basic needs met; the rest of our time is spent trying on different masks, cloaked in various costumes being who we need to be to realize those primal goals. That’s really what life is all about, right? Well, maybe that’s a bit over-simplistic, but at the core of survival is selfishness…as it should be.

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MAY 10, 2012

While understanding that I needed it the next day it would have been much easier to do it as we went and I would not have had a stressed out member of my team. Once you are prepared there are several avenues you can take to find and secure angel investment. Family, friends and collegues.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. To secure your little corner of the recovery, you’ll need to be at the right place with the right business plan.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

I bring this up today as it is currently the time of year when we are fired with resolutions, goals, plans…. Marlene Dietrich didn’t speak often, but in this instance it was worth waiting for.

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