By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist You are ready for the next step in your career. The decision you now have to make is whether to stay in your current company or move to another firm. How does one make such a decision rationally? The answer is that most decisions even for the […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist The holidays are often a blur but can be a time of reflection for some who want change in their jobs and careers as the year turns. Now is a good time to think about what you want out of life for the next 2-5 years. If […]
2017 marks the 10th year anniversary for glasshammer2.wpengine.com as we begin to crank up our virtual presses again to inform, inspire and empower you as professional women navigating your careers. We aim to help you by providing you with information, expert opinions and advice which you can use in the best way you see fit. […]
By Nicki Gilmour, CEO and Founder of theglasshammer To review 2016 in context of women at work and the progress being made for professional women has been like a textbook case study for me as an organizational psychologist who works in diversity. I hope I can share with you how we can go forward and […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Pyschologist I publish theglasshammer to help you excel at work. In 2017 theglasshammer will turn ten. We provide career advice and you can see how other women have climbed to the top, you can catch up on the research and academic studies in a digestible way to know […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Pyschologist It has been quite difficult to avoid the US election season this year, even if you do not live in the United States. I have avoided writing about it for many reasons including general fatigue with the whole topic and not wanting to further burden people who […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist Have you ever thought about your peak experience at work? A time, team or task where you literally had a good time and felt great about the project? Maybe it was the achievements, or accolades, or the people involved or the fact that you just liked the […]
By Nicki Gilmour Closing the investment gap for women as well as the better- documented pay gap needs to happen. What is the investment gap? And why are most women, even highly paid professional women still missing out? Sallie Krawcheck just wrote a post about the cost of not realizing what we are missing financially […]
I am very guilty of living in the future and this can lead to not being 100% engaged in the present. I justify it by saying that I am a good planner who understands that companies don’t build themselves and argue that the power of an arc in anyone’s professional narrative is part of one’s […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Pyschologist The trouble with “authenticity” in the workplace is that there are many definitions of what being authentic is and in reality we are often defined by the role we play. There are two types of roles and the first and most tangible is the task role we […]