Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
More and more corporate boards are seeking to diversify their ranks. Yet, in the US only 15.7% of board seats are held by women. The data published by Catalyst, shows companies with three or more women board directors in four of five years outperformed companies with zero women board directors [...]
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February 1st, 2012, 1:00 pm
Five Important Tips To Get on a Corporate Board
January 11th, 2012, 1:00 pm
The #1 Factor That Keeps You from Meeting Your Goals
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
You’ve set your New Year goals. You’re highly motivated to achieve them. And then something happens and you lose steam. Meet the culprit. It’s called resistance. And it lies in each of us. The fact is the #1 factor standing between us and achieving our goals is ourselves. We often [...]
January 4th, 2012, 6:00 am
Five Ways to Reignite Your Career Passion
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
Does this situation sound familiar? You have worked hard to climb the corporate ladder. You’ve had to burn the candle on both ends to get there. When you get to the corner office or the next rung in the ladder, after the initial euphoria of meeting your goal wears off, [...]
December 21st, 2011, 1:00 pm
Ask-a-Career-Coach: How to Rock Your Performance Review
Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly PhD
I was worried after my most recent coaching session with “Rina.” We had been prepping for her performance review as a top-level financial advisor, and I didn’t have much time to make a few key points. Rina was talking about her hard work and hurt feelings rather than about [...]
December 16th, 2011, 6:00 am
How Will You Measure This Year?
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
It’s the end of the year. You’re scrambling to make the numbers, completing performance reviews for your people, finalizing business reviews so plans for next year can be fine-tuned. Sound familiar? For each of the last 20 years of my corporate career, as each year drew toward a close it [...]
December 7th, 2011, 6:00 am
Three Questions You Must Ask Yourself to Be an Inspirational Leader
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
I had a client recently share with me her desire to be a more inspirational leader in her organization. I asked her why this was important to her. She said she wanted to have greater impact and greater engagement within her teams. Shoulders slumped, she quickly confessed she was not [...]
September 7th, 2011, 1:00 pm
Ask-a-Career-Coach: How to Survive an MBA
Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly PhD
Back to school!
It’s a rallying cry we usually associate with kids’ backpacks and notebooks, but don’t forget about mom. More and more, working women are heading back to school to upgrade their skillsets and resumes with an advanced degree.
In fact, this fall a record number of women will be [...]
August 17th, 2011, 12:00 pm
How Transformational Leaders Manage a Really, Really Bad Day
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
The stock market is a roller coaster. You find out you’re not going to hit the numbers for the quarter. More people you know are out of jobs. Congress can’t seem to agree on what they want for breakfast, let alone decide how to run the country. The global markets [...]
July 13th, 2011, 12:00 pm
Ask-a-Career-Coach: Is “Excessive Subjectivity” Sabotaging Your Career?
Contributed by executive coach Ann Daly, PhD
Once upon a time, when managers made implicitly gender-biased judgments about which staff got the pay raises and the promotions, we called a spade a spade: gender discrimination. When Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Betty Dukes et al. was recently heard by the Supreme Court, we gained a new euphemism [...]
June 24th, 2011, 6:00 am
What’s Your Leadership Practice?
Contributed by CEO Coach Henna Inam
If you want to be a better golfer what do you do? Practice. How about if you want to be a better musician? Practice. If you want to be a better leader, what do you do? You get the picture. So what’s your daily leadership practice?
To improve our leadership, we [...]
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