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Techleaders: Strategic Persuasion & Change Leadership

A two day workshop designed for women in technology to increase their skills in negotiation and effecting organizational change.

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The Corporate Boardroom: Sometimes It’s What You Don’t Say

Contributed By: Sue Kaye

656924000_ed810cc6b3_m.jpgGo to any top-level business meeting and you’ll find two languages spoken or, to be more precise, unspoken. There’s power talk – direct,muscular and sure. And there’s the gentler give-and-take of conciliatory, careful conversation. Guess which approach gets the job done in a tough situation.

“We spend so much time thinking about what’s going into our mouths and so little time thinking about what comes out “ complains Laurie Puhn, a Harvard family and divorce attorney/mediator, and best-selling author of Instant Persuasion: How to Change Your Words to Change Your Life. Differences in language and style can put women at such an inadvertent disadvantage that Lois Frankel, author of See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work , has made a career of building awareness among her female colleagues.
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Teaming With Men For Success

Contributed By: Maureen Frank, Managing Director of Emberin.com.au

Men are a big key to our success. As an advocate for women in the workforce, I never thought I would be putting that in writing!

Recently, I attended the Catalyst Conference in the US – Catalyst is a research firm associated with working women (it is an esteemed institution in the US with fortune 500 members and high profile board members – I was excited to see our very own Sol Trujillo amongst the other global CEO’s on the stage!). In true American style, and using the ‘Oprahesque’ language that became the buzz word for the conference – I had an ‘ah – ha’ moment. I now understand how critical male involvement is to the whole gender equity challenge.

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Can The Economic Downturn Force More Work/Life Balance?

By Bailey McCann

61056391_31343afdc6_m_1.jpgSunday’s New York Times ran an interesting take on the fallout from the subprime crisis and economic slowdown: the rich are less rich. While the rest of us probably aren’t crying any tears over this development, the ramifications of the rich being less rich is a study in how a crisis in the financial markets may be a catalyst in forcing all of us to pare down, clean up and come out on the other side of this with a whole different perspective and perhaps a little more balance.
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Confessions of an Office Newbie

Contributed by Rebecca Ang

Oh my God, that girl from accounting is walking straight towards me. Oh, what is her name? Is she the one on my team or is it the other brunette with the bangs? Why do they both have bangs?

Am I supposed to say hello? Look past her? Look at the floor? Do I ask her how she’s doing? What if she asks first? What if we ask each other at the same time and the awkward jinx thing happens? Neither of us will know when to say we’re doing fine. Will we have to say it at the same time?.

Or even worse, what if we say ‘how are you’ like we’re singing a round, one right after another?

“Hihowareyou?” stumbles out of my mouth.

She is already two feet past me, the wind from her pistachio green wool cardigan stinging my fragile cheek.

That was my first week at my new job. Now that I’m in my sixth week, I feel like she and I really understand each other.

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Secrets of NYC’s Top Female Attorneys

Recently, New York’s women leaders in law sounded off to New York Magazine about what it takes to succeed as an attorney at the top firms and at the top of their practice areas in New York. The women, whose practice areas range from securities litigation to corporate law to immigration, seemed to have one piece of advice across the board, which was: “Be willing to work hard, and long. If you don’t love your job, you won’t make it through all the tough work it takes to succeed in this field.”

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Ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ

If you had been in Times Square at 4:00 pm on May 28, 2008 and happened to have looked up at the NASDAQ exchange you would have seen the most unusual sight. You would have seen 80 designer handbags sitting on the ledge of the window. Why? The owners of those handbags were ringing the closing bell. 80 women who are C-level executives who sit on corporate and non-profit boards and are all part of a community of 425 women known as Women Corporate Directors (WCD). (www.womencorporatedirectors.com)

It was an amazing atmosphere- I have been in many rooms full of silver haired men in pinstripe suits but this is the first time I had seen such power consolidated in a group of women.

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Global Trade Insights From Harold (Terry) McGraw III, Chairman, President & CEO of McGraw-Hill Companies

Join us for an evening with Harold (Terry) McGraw III to participate in an insightful discussion about American competitiveness in a rapidly transforming global economy.

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Ask-A-Recruiter: My Job Title Doesn’t Accurately Reflect my Responsibilities

Contributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart

This question came up at a recent coaching session with a new client: My last job has a title that sounds much more administrative than the actual job. How do I accurately list the title on my resume without pigeonholing myself into administrative jobs with a similar title?

There are few jobseekers who can get a job on the strength of their resume alone. Someone who is working at a brand name company and wants to transition to a competitor in the same function is an example of a jobseeker that can probably get hits from her resume alone.

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