Safe At Work: How To Lead During Election Season With Fairness and Civility

In this highly fractious and divisive political culture, as a leader, it is essential to create a workplace environment that is absent of negativity and hate that exist outside the organization surrounding the election.

Guaranteeing that the workplace culture is safe physically and emotionally not just on voting day, but in upcoming weeks and months over a possibly contested outcome is a top priority. And one that exists whether the workplace is virtual or in-person. Decreasing political anxiety at work is the goal.

Tools and TipsMichele WeldonOctober 31, 2024Election Day, Workplace Advice, Workplace CultureComment

Must Reads: 17 Great Books From Women Leaders for 2024

It’s time to get your reading list ready and Take The Lead is here with recommendations from 17 authors. The books range from memoir to essays, historical overviews and several practical guides to being the best leader you can be.

Change Leadership, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonFebruary 16, 2024Leadership Books, women leadershipComment

Scared of AI? 13 Keys To Leading & Succeeding With AI

ChatGPT will be one year old in November. In its first two months of operation, there were more than 100 million users. It now has 1.6 billion users. Open AI, its parent company, launched in 2015 and has a valuation of $29 billion.

Some leaders, managers, academics and professionals in all niches are scared. Others are eager to embrace the power of this technology.

Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tips, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonOctober 26, 2023AI, Technology, ChatGPT, business-strategyComment

Not So: Bad: How Shifting From Negative Information Changes How We Work, Live

Do the negative news stories, content and information we consume affect who we are, our state of mind, and how we work and move in the world?

Emma Varvaloucas, executive director of The Progress Network, believes that is the case. In her role of providing content, podcasts, newsletters and more in this “network of ideas,” she is helping to shift the concentration on extreme, volatile opinions to a more positive gathering of news and facts based on progress.

23 & You: 12 Monthly Lessons To Make This Your Best Year Ever

It seems everyone starts the new year with a sterling list of goals aimed at making this a shiny year of professional successes. Some are reachable, some are aspirational, all seem plausible in theory.

To make this year 2023 truly monumental and to zero in on actively achieving the goals you assign yourself, it is important to be realistic about where you are in your career, who you are and what skills and resources you have at your disposable—and can acquire.

Take The Lead has a bounty of instructive and inspiring content, resources and courses available for you and your team to make these goals a reality and to see that 2023 is your best year ever in terms of reaching your heights as an entrepreneur, leader, innovator, manager and colleague.

Head First: How To Gain Control of Your Brain and Live The Life You Want

Have you ever felt overwhelmed, or unable to think clearly when it mattered most? You were probably trying to use a part of your brain that was unavailable at that time. The great news is: There is a simple technique for regaining access to that part of your brain on-demand.

Feeling the Burn(out?) Take a 3-Minute Mindset Reset Pause

If you didn’t get a chance to participate in the Take the Lead annual 2-day conference at the Phoenix Biltmore, I highly recommend watching the replay. This event exceeded expectations in providing inspiration, tools and action items for stepping into your most powerful potential. Yet lurking among the conversations spanning all aspects of Diversity and Inclusion, a new shared challenge emerged. In a word; burnout.

6 Reasons Now Is The Time To Power Up For Big RE: REthink, REwire, REcreate Your Career

The summer of 2022 marks the third summer of COVID-related work complications for millions of women from remote work adjustments to childcare urgencies to workplaces shutdowns, reorganizations and layoffs.

The National Women’s Law Center reports that between February 2020 and January of this year, 1.1 million women left the workforce. Some reinvented themselves as entrepreneurs, others reshaped their lives outside of their careers. Research shows this cultural time, space and economic reality supports shifts that not only bring change, but transformation.

Pride of Representing: COO Ensures Content Includes LGBTQ+ Creators

It matters if you see people in the world who are like you. Fair and equitable representation in content across platforms is the mission of Standard, a creator management company, with Gemma Arnott as Chief Operating Officer.

No Vax? Coping With Unvaxxed Colleagues, Clients and Customers

You are double vaxxed, boosted and spatially safe, yet you work regularly with colleagues, clients and customers who are not.

Never mind the masking issue, you are in contact in-person—and remotely—with people who are opposed to treating COVID-19 the same way you do and it is causing disruption, discontent and malaise in the workplace.

How as a leader do you maintain professional distance and your own safety as well as a safe and fair workplace culture?

Make The Most of Digital Marketing: 4 Tips For Nonprofits To Excel

Nonprofit organizations have traditionally used fundraising events to help achieve their goals. However, it’s not enough to only have a handful of people supporting their cause.

That’s where digital marketing comes to play. Digital marketing is usually attributed to for-profit organizations. While this is the case, nonprofits also reap the same benefits it has for businesses.

Finance/Money, Leadership/Organizational, Media, Tools and TipsDan MartinDecember 22, 2021digital presence, Nonprofit, funding, Social MediaComment

Lucky 13: Must Read Now Books on Leadership, Life, Lessons and Success

Whether you are settling down with an e-reader on your favorite screen or thumbing through pages on a beach, this summer season offers many exciting new reads from fiction to nonfiction, advice, memoir and biography by some familiar and new favorite authors.

Each summer Take The Lead recommends what you might like to dive into, share in your book club or recommend to a friend, colleague, mentor or mentee. Here are a delightful bakers’ dozen of Take The Lead suggestions (alphabetically listed because we can’t possibly rank them as we love them all), with an addendum of four irresistible Young Adult offerings you may want to share with a younger person you mentor, love and intend to inspire.

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