Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fantastic time to be in gratitude. From the joy of family and friends to the copious servings of those delicious foods I don’t allow myself to enjoy any other time, to the adrenaline inducing Take The Lead Day earlier this month, I feel incredibly fortunate for life and its bounty.
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Word of the week is POSITIVE.
As in posit your own terms.
As in position yourself.
As in having an optimistic outlook for the sake of your health, happiness, and success.
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Calling all #WW, here’s why it’s important to get behind the new #WonderWoman movie by going to see it this weekend: Supporting success at the box office by buying tickets, especially in its first weekend, will increase the probability we’ll see more female superheroes women and girls can relate to in pop culture. And the more #WW we see, the more of us will become #WW.
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“The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man,” said Susan B. Anthony, who was born February 15, 1820 and is best remembered as the suffragist who helped women earn the right to vote.
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Companies spend big money on gender diversity and inclusion training. There’s a good reason for that: attracting and retaining high-caliber female talent all the way up to the top leadership ranks comes with a long list of compelling results, ranging from lower turnover cost to higher profits. Female senior leaders have a positive impact on the bottom line.
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Kerry Washington is involved in another scandal, but this one is not her fictitious Thursday night shocker from Shondaland. This week Kerry is playing real life Anita Hill in HBO’s “Confirmation,” a film reenactment of Anita Hill standing up in 1991 to then- U.S. Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas.
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Calling a leader a “strong woman” can have negative connotations. Many women leaders are referred to this way.
And I don’t mean to bite the hand that gives me this platform, but the phrase “strong woman” sets my teeth on edge.
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Read MoreGearing up for the Take The Lead Virtual Happy Hour Wednesday, March 9, 2016 from 6:30-7:30p.m. with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of Women’s Heart Health at Lenox Hill Hospital, here is my recent keynote for an American Heart Association Go Red for Women Leadership Forum event in New York, which Take The Lead co-sponsored. Heart disease is insidious, and because women are less likely than men to be symptomatic, it’s critically important to know our risks and symptoms. Here’s the essence of my speech.
Take The Lead Co-founder and President Gloria Feldt tells WorkLife HUB how embracing controversy — instead of avoiding it– presents opportunities to enhance discussion in the workplace. With the help of Power Tool #4, you can steer the conversation to collaboration, a key component in leadership. Feldt creates dynamic Take The Lead workshops including 9 Leadership Power Tools To Advance Your Career. Listen to the entire podcast below.
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Our efforts to nurture women into leadership, stand up for equality, and have a voice as women ourselves are critical to the gender-balanced needs of our society. We know that women who embrace power with confidence are key to bringing leadership parity to every field. Some of our strategies for promoting women’s leadership are proving successful, however, so much of who we are and what we believe about what it means to be female (and our personal capabilities and aspirations) are built upon messages sent to us in childhood.
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Originally posted on LinkedIn by Nereyda Esparza.
They say that you should write about what you know and love, and to me, there’s nothing more exciting than to understand how women can grow and embrace their power.
Last year at a workshop in Chicago I had the great pleasure of meeting the legendary Gloria Feldt, former CEO and President of Planned Parenthood and founder of Take The Lead, an organization that develops women to take equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. She introduced me to nine power tools effective leaders use to embrace their power, and I left inspired to start this project. Over the next couple of months, I will write short essays on each of these tools in an effort to inspire women, especially young millennial women to better understand #PowerTO, what it is, and why we should have it.
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Having a network is important, and to build a successful one, you need to dust off skills you may not have used since you were in school and had to navigate lunchroom politics and cliquish parties. It’s a fact – sometimes it isn’t what you know, but who you know that makes networking a crucial skill, not only to get ahead in business, but also to move forward in life. If you don’t have a solid network in place, don’t worry though, it’s never too early or too late to build one!
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