Career Women Coaching

The Women Who Succeed on Wall Street

Things get even more competitive between women in imbalanced situations; very few form female friendships or effective mentorships at work. Interestingly, most executive women on Wall Street attribute their success to a male mentor, someone they sought out on their own.

Seven years post-MBA, professional women on Wall Street earn $0.68 to a man’s $1, and this disparity exists fairly consistently across industries. Recent widely publicized conversations about Hollywood roles for women remind us there is still an impressive quadrant of women who maintain it is unladylike to speak about money.

Before employees begin work, banks have them sign a U-4 contract agreeing that any employment disputes will be settled by in-house arbitration. Thus, when sexual harassment complaints are filed, they usually settle privately with a hefty check and an oath of silence for the plaintiff.

A few settlements of note:

2007: Citigroup settled with over 900 women for gender discrimination and paid out $33mm. Currently only 2 of 20 top executives are women.

2007: Morgan Stanley settled for $54mm for unfair pay to 340 women. They set up a pool of $46mm to help attract and promote women. It’s been seven years and the top brass at Morgan Stanley is 0% female.

2013: Bank of America/Merrill Lynch settled for gender bias with a payout of $39mm. This claim was on behalf of 4,800 female employees. Currently, 4 of 15 executive managers are women.

2015: After accusations of not promoting women, Goldman Sachs settled for an undisclosed sum rather than go to court. It’s undeniable that number of women in management positions plummets as the level of management rises. There is currently one woman in the executive suite.

“OPENING BELLE”

Maureen Sherry, formerly the youngest managing director at a leading investment bank, spent twelve years climbing ladders on Wall Street before leaving to pursue writing. Her first adult novel “OPENING BELLE” situates readers just before the 2008 crash, on the trading floor where the few women who have made it up the ranks endure obscene nicknames, sexual pranks, and daily reminders that theirs is a world still run by men.

Source: Maureen Sherry, "OPENING BELLE" a novel

More Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women: 

 Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.  (ebook and paperback editions)   

 Women and Time (ebook and paperback editions) 

 

  When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women. (ebook edition $0.99, Workbook Edition in paperback $13.41)  

Improving the Quality of Your Life   By  Author M.B. Tosi   on April 1, 2013

Every now and then a person runs across a great book that really helps improve the quality of life. This is such a book! Written by top coaches of executive women, Barb McEwen and John Agno, the goal of When Doing It All Won’t Do is to develop solutions and strategies to help women’s lives be easier, richer, happier, and saner.

 

It’s based on the premise that doing it all won’t do. If you are a woman who is weary and stressed and taking on too much and struggling to juggle it all, this book is dedicated to helping you find the enjoyment and satisfaction you expected with your success.

 

Well-organized with real solutions and a helpful workbook section, this book focuses on developing your signature talents to do what you do best, developing a formula for success, and prioritizing your values and goals.  A great read! 

 

Best Time Management Techniques

Despite our best intentions to work on the right things, we don’t, for countless reasons. All these reasons involve either how you spend your time, attention, or energy.

Normally, you don’t have as much time, energy, or attention as you would like. When you take the time to observe how your energy fluctuates over the course of the day, you can work on your highest-impact tasks during your prime time—when you are able to bring the most energy and focus to them.

THE PRODUCTIVITY PROJECT’S main takeaways, include: The art of doing one thing at a time and other “attention muscle” challenges. Among the many counterintuitive insights the author discovered, the following had the biggest impact on productivity: shrinking or eliminating the unimportant; slowing down to work more deliberately; the rule of three; striving for imperfection; scheduling less time for important tasks; the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions; and the concept of productive procrastination.

You are encouraged to chart your own course to productivity beginning with baseline style assessments and coming up with an accurate picture of your natural energy peaks and dips throughout the course of the day. By realizing our own energy flow, we can time our toughest tasks to our highest-energy moments, and push our low-impact work to our more energy deprived periods.

Source: Chris Bailey: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy

More Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women: 

 Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.  (ebook and paperback editions)   

 Women and Time (ebook and paperback editions) 

 

  When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women. (ebook edition $0.99, Workbook Edition in paperback $13.41)  

Improving the Quality of Your Life   By  Author M.B. Tosi   on April 1, 2013

Every now and then a person runs across a great book that really helps improve the quality of life. This is such a book! Written by top coaches of executive women, Barb McEwen and John Agno, the goal of When Doing It All Won’t Do is to develop solutions and strategies to help women’s lives be easier, richer, happier, and saner.

 

It’s based on the premise that doing it all won’t do. If you are a woman who is weary and stressed and taking on too much and struggling to juggle it all, this book is dedicated to helping you find the enjoyment and satisfaction you expected with your success.

 

Well-organized with real solutions and a helpful workbook section, this book focuses on developing your signature talents to do what you do best, developing a formula for success, and prioritizing your values and goals.  A great read! 

 

 

 

 

 

About Telling Your Story

Why is it so hard to say what you want to be when you grow up? Too few of us really listen to what’s in our brains, in our hearts, in our souls. Too few of us take the time to understand what matters to us. Too few of us find the words and actually say what we want.

Way back in my high school graduation year book, we were asked two career questions: My response was: “Wants to Be” “President of General Motors” and “Probably will Be” “Parking cars.” Now after more than a half century, I do live in the heart of the auto industry in Metro Detroit and personally coach executives, including those within the automotive industry.

When is the last time you allowed yourself to dream, to let your imagination take you for a ride? When is the last time you seriously thought about who you want to be before your time is up?

It is altogether possible that you are perfectly happy and you are personally and professionally fulfilled with a fully-developed plan for your future. If so, that’s terrific, but then this process may not be for you. It’s hard. It’s messy. It’s uncomfortable.

If tonight you had three hours to spend with your best friend, personal coach or mentor talking about nothing but you—your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations—do you know what you would talk about? Remember, this is all about you. It’s not about your kids or your family or your dog, just you. What do you want? Where are you going? Who do you want to be? Are you prepared to have that conversation?

My best guess is no.

Source:

Todd Putman: Be More: Find your truth, tell your story, and get what you want out of life

 Self-coaching books for career women:

 Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.  (ebook and paperback edition)   

 Women and Time (ebook and paperback edition) 

  When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women. (ebook edition $0.99, Workbook Edition in paperback )

More Self-Coaching Books in ebook or paperback editions:                       

 Can't Get Enough Leadership

 Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide

 Ask the Coach  

Have You Stopped to Listen?

Have you ever stopped to listen to the voices in your head?

Do they like you?

Do they encourage your dreams and build your self-esteem?

Whatever your demons are (and we all have them), now is the time to rewrite the script in your head.

This is the most difficult part of your journey. Changing these voices is harder than believing, because if you can master this, then believing will become second nature. So know that going in. This will be the fight of your life, every day. This requires straight mental hustle.

Next, identify your dream life and write it out. Vividly imagine it becoming a reality. Call it “visualization” or “daydreaming,” but every successful person has credited their ability to create a visual movie in their mind as being a key part of their success. In fact, it is something they do naturally as part of their daily life; it’s simply who they are. The dream is not words, or a fleeting idea; it’s an actual living, breathing part of their life.

When author Sarah Centrella kicked her cheating husband out, she didn’t have five dollars to her name. Her electric, water and gas bills were all past due and rent was late. She hadn’t worked in over two years. The car title was in her husband’s name, as was their bank account. She was destitute and stranded with no way to provide for her three small children.

Instead of falling apart, Sarah took charge of her future. In just 18 months, Sarah went from a newly single mom living on food stamps, to an executive of a software company. Her book, Hustle Believe Receive proves that anyone, no matter where they start from, can change their life, achieve success, and live their dream.

Hustle Believe Receive features 51 inspiring stories of people who believe in Sarah’s message, each of whom she personally interviewed for this book.

• Source: Sarah Centrella: Hustle Believe Receive: An 8-Step Plan to Changing Your Life and Living Your Dream

 

Other self-coaching books for career women:

 Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.  (ebook and paperback edition)   

 Women and Time (ebook and paperback edition) 

  When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women. (ebook edition $0.99, Workbook Edition in paperback )