Career Women Coaching

When Women Leaders Succeed

According to a recent study released by the Peterson Institute for International Economics and EY (Ernst & Young), women in leadership positions are linked to stronger company profits.

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

  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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  Books on women’s leadership are having a major cultural moment, but can you overlook the question of how women make decisions?

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.

Women’s Confidence Advantage

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

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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Women at Work

  1 in 5 Human Resource Managers Admit Women At Their Companies Earn Less Than Men For the Same Work, CareerBuilder Survey Finds

•    Men are nearly three times as likely to earn six figures
• Only 35 percent of female workers believe there is equal pay in the workplace
• More than half of workers do not aspire to be in a leadership position at a company

Today, gender equality in the workplace is top of mind for politicians, activists, business leaders and workers. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, more than half of workers (55 percent) do not believe men and women are paid equally for the same job, and a similar proportion (51 percent) do not feel men and women are given the same career advancement opportunities.

A significant number of employers agree with 20 percent of human resource managers admitting that women do not make the same wages as their male counterparts at their organizations.   

More than 3,200 workers and more than 220 human resource managers in the private sector across industries participated in the nationwide survey, conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder from November 4 and December 1, 2015.

Salary Comparison

Taking a closer look at pay comparisons, men were nearly three times as likely to report earning six figures and nearly twice as likely to earn $50,000 or more. Women were twice as likely to report earning less than $35,000.

Earn less than $35,000

• Men – 23 percent
• Women – 47 percent

Earn $50,000 or more

• Men – 49 percent
• Women – 25 percent

Earn $100,000 or more

• Men – 14 percent
• Women – 5 percent

Survey results confirm that women feel inequality to a greater extent than men — only 35 percent of women believe there’s equal pay (compared to 56 percent of men) and 39 percent of women say there are equal opportunities for advancement (compared to 60 percent of men).

Source: CareerBuilder, February 25, 2016

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! 

 

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What to Ask on Your Job Interview

The ever dreaded, “Do you have any questions for me?” does not mark the end of an interview.

Author Ron Fry, asserts that it marks the beginning of the last and perhaps most importantly interview phase, one that’s so important that failing to properly prepare for it can undo all the rest of your hard work, including providing great answers to tough questions.

It’s your moment to shine—to show off the depth and breadth of your research, to remind that the interviewer of how perfectly your credentials fit the job description, and to actually ask for the job.

101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview shares how to take charge of the interview process, presenting yourself as the self-managing, versatile, and confident candidate most employers are seeking.

Source: Ron Fry: 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview, 4th Edition

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! 

 

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A Fulfilling Love Relationship

When you’re in love, and the brain releases an abundance of feel-good chemicals and hormones, all seems right with the world.

However, it’s what comes next that is most challenging.  In the ensuring phase, it’s important that after the initial excitement of falling in love, the relationship needs a balance of what is essential for long-term happiness.

Michael Gabriel, author of THE BALANCED RELATIONSHIP BAROMETER, applies his innovative business insights to the challenge of sustaining loving and successful relationships.

Loving someone usually isn’t enough.   For love to endure, and long-term happiness and fulfillment to thrive, relationships and individuals need to evolve and adapt to find the proper balance.  That means having each of your significant needs met without having to sacrifice more than you can tolerate.

Some of the things that will help you better identify what you need for a fulfilling relationship include:

Current relationship self-awareness

Learning from past relationships

Recognizing if your needs have changed over time

Not just accepting what your friends or society say you need

THE BALANCED RELATIONSHIP BAROMETER is filled with helpful guidelines, personal stories and anecdotes.  It focuses on helping people learn to know themselves and what will make them totally fulfilled in their romantic relationships based on building awareness and seeing trends of personal needs through experience.

 

Source:  Michael Gabriel: The Balanced Relationship Barometer: A Practical Approach to Achieve a Healthy and Fulfilling Love Relationship

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! 

 

Leadership is.....

 

 

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 )