Knowing how to effectively negotiate is critical to career advancement. Yet one tendency I’ve noticed in our Women in Leadership and Learning Program (WILL)—as well as SHAMBAUGH’s other leadership training and executive coaching programs—is that women often lack confidence and conviction in their negotiating skills. Many women have expressed to me that while they have no problem advocating for others on […]
Building Strategic Networks—The Key to Career Advancement
As leaders progress and take on broader roles, a significant shift should take place if they want to keep advancing. More senior-level leaders need fewer analytical, task-oriented skills and more relationship-building skills. So if you want to prepare yourself for executive roles and other leadership positions, it’s critical to gain expertise in building strategic networks. […]
The Secret to Getting Promoted: Executive Presence
If I had to identify one key strategy that could help women—or anyone—advance their career, I’d point to enhancing your executive presence. If your executive presence is strong, you stand out as a leader, which can lead to a promotion, new opportunities, and career advancement. Executive presence isn’t easy to define—it’s that je ne sais quoi that indicates […]
How to Balance Operational Results With Strategic Thinking
In SHAMBAUGH’s “Women Rise” study, we found that one of the biggest barriers for women in senior roles is not feeling valued or respected by others in their organization—one out of two women surveyed said this was a major impediment to their advancement. Bloomberg recently reported out of 68 million white-collar workers, only 1.3% were promoted in […]
Top Takeaways from a Women in Leadership and Learning Participant
My latest podcast featured an interview with Brenda Harvey, Managing Director of IBM Industrial. Piggybacking off of SHAMBAUGH Leadership’s new “Women Rise” research on women in the pipeline, Harvey and I talked about everything from the factors that are still holding women back in the workplace, to the importance of self-advocacy and how to develop a stronger […]
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