Career Women Coaching

Visionary Women Entrepreneurs

Kaya Singer, author of the book “Wiser and Wilder,” says that success comes to those who focus on being authentic, in the right circle of people, in a balanced and actualized way, with a strong voice.

Her new book is designed to help people ready to walk a soulful path and that manifests their vision with the right people. “Finding your tribe is perhaps one of the most important steps to focus on in business,” she says.

Your tribe is made up of all the people who love your business, products, services, and you. It’s your fans, current and potential customers and clients, and your colleagues. They enjoy hearing what you’re up to, and they spread the word to others about your business. It’s just as true now as it has been down through the ages: women thrive in circles with other women.

Here are seven important key ways to grow your tribe:

• Search for Women’s Networking Groups and Business Clubs in your local area.
• Do online searches through the social media channels.
• Tap in and take advantage of your own networks.
• Set up coffee or tea dates with women you meet and feel a connection toward.
• Start your own Meet Up group and invite people to come.
• Go to a local tea shop or café with your lap top and work from there.
• Build a community on social media.
• Join groups on social media.
• Start your own small Mastermind Group.
• Look for ways you can promote others.

Connecting with supportive people not only helps build your business, but it builds real community, plus it helps you to grow personally as an individual; this is particularly helpful if you tend to be more introverted.

Source: Kaya Singer: Wiser and Wilder: A Soulful Path for Visionary Women Entrepreneurs

 

Other 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 and Workbook Edition in paperback at $13.41)  

 

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Many of today’s up-and-coming, eager professionals are articulate, talented, well-educated and technologically savvy, but many of them are also unaware of the nuances to manage their career and may become labeled as obtuse. They simply lack the political perception and professional skills to get ahead.

Author Jena Abernathy is a passionate advocate for women in executive and governing board roles. Inspiring, down to earth, and straight talking, “THE INEQUALITY EQUALIZER” is the mentoring guide that most of us will wish we had read a long time ago, much earlier in our careers. Abernathy shares her practical, proven real-world techniques to strategize your career, and gain the confidence, know-how, and respect to get results, make winning impressions, and build long-lasting success.

Regardless of how much we might like to think that everyone believes that men and women are equal, the truth is that every woman will face a variety of gender issues throughout her career. Among those challenges is simply getting to the top spot. We see this every day when we witness the dearth of women in leadership positions.

As women, we have to get down to brass tacks and claim what we want. We can’t be afraid of a desire to get ahead, of ambition, or of success.

Maybe it does mean that we have to work harder in general or even harder than men. Resolving gender bias won’t mean that we as women suddenly get to work less hard in order to succeed in business. We’ll still have to work hard and over-deliver, and so will men.

Source: Jena Abernathy: The Inequality Equalizer

Other Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women: 

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

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

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Despite their best efforts, women still face obstacles pursuing a career and being a mother. Unconscious to the many limitations placed on their choices, women still believe that they face a stark choice of either their careers or a happy home.

Aspiring women deserve a solid "heads up." 

Women who ascend the corporate ladder are expected to give up, to go up.  This is a critical consideration for women with children. 

Countless mothers of young children have surprised themselves by creating professional opportunities while they've been home with children.  Others have impressed themselves and others when they demonstrate how their organizational abilities at work translate well on the home front, in locating the right support network and helpers to make both work and home function smoothly.

It was Gloria Steinem who said, "I've yet to hear a man ask for advice about how to combine marriage and a career."

“Women and False Choice: The Truth about Sexism,” by Muna Jawhary extends the logical conclusion of gender bias in society to the workplace, and shows how our unconscious sexist beliefs translate into a sexist behavioral reality. Throughout her book, Jawhary suggests powerful ways of creating a healthy work environment that is equally supportive for both sexes.

Leader stereotype leads to two forms of prejudice:

First, women’s potential for being endorsed as leaders is less than men’s, because the male stereotype is closer to the leader stereotype.

Second, women’s actual leadership is evaluated less favourably than men’s, because women’s assertive behavior is perceived as undesirable or threatening, particularly to men.

Women tend to employ democratic leadership styles that allow subordinates to participate in decision making. Generally speaking, women leaders more than men leaders tend to be inclusive and aim for consensus-building. Research also shows that women are more interpersonally oriented than men – more concerned with the welfare of the people they work with and with maintaining good professional relationships.

Compared with men’s directive style, therefore, women’s leadership style can be described as collaborative.

Source: “Women and False Choice: The Truth about Sexism” by Muna Jawhary

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

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In their new book, “THE NEW ADVANTAGE: How Women in Leadership can create win-wins for their companies and themselves,” Howard J. Morgan and Joelle K. Jay delve deep into what women, and the companies that employ them, can do to promote the advancement of women.

While many experts have explored the challenges of women in leadership, Morgan and Jay focus on solutions; what individuals and organizations can do to actually begin the transformation.

In the last several years, while coaching executive women, we began to see a trend. Organizations wanted to advance women and were trying but not succeeding….mainly due to the feedback input women got from the sources all around them.

Feedback remains treacherous for women.

The Center for Talent Innovation reports:

• Women are 32% less likely to receive any feedback from male superiors.
• When they do get feedback, 81% of women say they have trouble responding to it, because it’s so “distressingly contradictory.”

However, women have control over their ability to get good feedback. You can educate yourself about how good feedback should work and take the initiative to get it for yourself.

Being unaware, we unconsciously engage our default behavior. Only when we become aware of something, are we able to make choices as to the action we wish to take. Sometimes, just being aware, allows the problem to solve us--rather than requiring us to solve the problem.

For example, self-assessments are research-based quizzes that reveal your attributes. Each assessment will yield different information. Another form of self-assessment is ongoing reflection during the conversations you have with your executive coach and/or mentor.

All you need to succeed is three simple questions:

1. What’s working?
2. What’s not working?
3. What do I need to change?

Ask these questions often and you’ll have an ongoing gauge as to how you’re doing and where to focus your attention.

When you receive feedback and are seen to be acting on that feedback, your stock goes up in the eyes of others.

Feedback is essential for developing your self-awareness and without self-awareness, how will you know where to direct your efforts at self- improvement?

Source: Howard J. Morgan: The New Advantage: How Women in Leadership Can Create Win-Wins for Their Companies and Themselves

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 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 and Workbook Edition in paperback at $13.41)  

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The research is making increasing clear that when a man faces a hard decision, he needs to make a judgement; when a woman faces a hard decision, she needs to make a judgment and navigate being judged.

Why is it still the case that of the 195 independent countries in the world, only 11.2% of them are run by women?

Drawing on voluminous research and the vivid experiences of women, from diverse industries and backgrounds, author Therese Huston Ph.D unpacks the mechanisms with which women make decisions and the unconscious biases underlying how the world reacts to their choices.

Decision-making, especially at work, is a different process for women. “HOW WOMEN DECIDE” is a remarkable book in that it gives the reader insight into how to improve decision-making skills, creates options, and makes optimal choices.

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Things to remember:

Men and women alike find it hard to believe that they’re average. But compared to women, men tend to think they’re much better than average. The confidence gap is largest on skills that society considers masculine or feminine. Women underestimate their knowledge and abilities on masculine skills, but men still believe they’ll be proficient in skills deemed feminine.

Things to do:

Think of confidence as a dial, something you can turn up or down. You need to keep your confidence turned down when you’re making a decision, when you are weighing your options and need to hear more.

Dial up your confidence when you’ve already make a decision and the task at hand is more about persuading others to accept it and follow you. Pay attention to your body, your self-confidence. To provide a quick injection of confidence, strike a high-power pose or lower the pitch of your voice. To lower your confidence, assume a low-power pose.

Source: Therese Huston: How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices

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 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 and Workbook Edition in paperback at $13.41)  

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