By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist Bonus season is over for another year and so the should I stay or should I go question could loom again for you? Chances are, if you work in banking and financial services, you stayed put until this payday. But, with a year ahead, its a good […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist Black History Month is about celebrating amazing people of color. For us on theglasshammer.com we celebrate women of color and all types of women all year long but we do recognize that intersectionality is real (simply put, being a woman with another social identity that is “other”, […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist All jobs have tasks that we prefer over other tasks. Be honest with yourself, how strategically important are the tasks that you are avoiding? If they rank highly either for your current role or as a development skill, then consider setting time aside formally in your calendar […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist As ambitious, hard working women, we are often not satisfied about what we have achieved at work. We often feel insecure about giving less than 150% at work for fear of losing ground. And, the truth is, most of us work in very competitive industries that require […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist The way to make 2018 resolutions stick is to understand your own neuroscience about how you see your goals in action. Your mind is driving the bus. Take back the wheel! The rubber meets the road for goal setting when you have behaviors that actually are conducive […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist Happy New Year! Most of us have new resolutions and all of them will rely on a behaviorial change in their essence, as they require action. If you have figured out what you want (and what you don’t want) and have named this as a future state, […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Pyschologist We all have different personalities and we all have different needs, some based on personality and some based on the constructs and paradigms that we have become attached to over time. Some people care about status and title and others care about responsibility or money regardless […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Pyschologist We know that there are barriers for women in technology, from hiring and promotional bias to pretty awful cultural issues, making the day to day environment hard going. I could go on and on about the ugly underbelly and about the fact the system is stacked but […]
By Nicki Gilmour, CEO theglasshammer.com Financial Advisory and the retail side of the financial services industry is not something that we have covered from a career perspective here at theglasshammer.com. So, we thought it was time to have a look at this career and discuss its viability as it pertains to ambitious women looking to […]
By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist Advice giving is a tricky business and when I thought up the title of this week’s column, I actually googled the sentence “What would Oprah say?” to find out she is the modern day Plato. No one can argue with her words of wisdom as she is a […]