Winner Take All: Do Awards Matter In The Career Growth of Women Leaders?

It can be a small glass prism with your name engraved on the base, one that you display on your desk for a few months, then on a bookshelf, then in a drawer, then throw away a few years later if you change jobs or move your office.

4 More: Adding Women to Corporate Boards Progress Toward Women Leadership Equity Goal

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, 24 Fortune 500 companies had no women on their boards as of March 2016. The bad news is that the majority of these 24 companies have failed to do anything about this problem, despite the attention the women on boards issue has received lately.

Career successOlga MackOctober 6, 2016gender parity, progress, women in the workplace, women leaders, women on boardsComment

Smile And Be Happy: How to Measure Happiness For Women In The Workplace?

None of us can grin from ear to ear every minute of every day at work. But being happy with what we do professionally matters. Still, we wonder, is achieving happiness at work a goal or a natural byproduct of meaningful work?

It’s a topic we have tackled before at Take The Lead and one worth revisiting.

Flexible Career Solutions: More Work Harder Working Where They Wish

To everyone who started her workday in her pajamas and takes a lunch break with a stroll to the couch, congratulations. You may be more productive than your friend who commuted to the office today.

Career successMichele WeldonSeptember 6, 2016business, Career, Change, communication, female entrepreneursComment

Code You: How Workplace Style Has Shifted For Women Leaders, Entrepreneurs

Before I began my first job out of graduate school in 1979 as a managing editor of a regional magazine, my sister Madeleine, a lawyer, took me shopping. She insisted I buy a handful of blouses with bow ties at the neck in white, beige and black, plus a few black and gray skirts below the knee and a tan blazer I hated.

Toast Women's Equality Day By Looking Ahead To Equality in Workplace

Whereas what? It’s Women’s Equality Day August 26, but are we equal yet?

Forty-five years ago this week on August 26, 1971, New York Democratic Representative Bella Abzug succeeded in formally having Women’s Equality Day put on the books. It was to commemorate the 19th Amendment signed 51 years earlier and signified a long battle for equal representation since the launch of the women’s civil rights movement in 1848.

Career successMichele WeldonAugust 25, 2016Career, Change, wage gap, women in the workplace, Women's equality dayComment

For Real: Strategies for Women of Color Entrepreneurs To Succeed

If only life was like it appears on TV.

Cookie Lyon, played by Taraji P. Henson, is the co-founder of the fictional Empire Entertainment and the roar behind Lyon Dynasty. Anika Calhoun, played by Grace Gealey, is the head of A & R at Empire Entertainment. Pop icon Mariah Carey will also be featured with the regular cast of characters in the upcoming season three of the wildly popular, award-winning TV series, “Empire.”

On The Rebound: What Makes Great Women Leaders Resilient and Why?

Bounce back. Get up. Put on your big girl pants.

We sometimes repeat trite clichés when we (or one of our friends, colleagues or family members) have a setback.

But what does it mean to be truly resilient? And how can we fill our toolbox with a set of skills and strategies that will help us recover?

Career successMichele WeldonAugust 9, 2016business, Career, resilience, women in the workplace, women leadersComment

5 Keywords for Young Women Leaders to Optimize Summer Internships

‘Tis the season of the summer internship for many. If you are lucky and are in college or recently graduated, there’s a good chance you’re either neck-deep into your internship or are looking to start one soon.

Career successLauren ModianoJuly 11, 2016business, Career, female entrepreneurs, success, women in the workplace, young womenComment

6 Affirmations for Black Women In Leadership In The Workplace

Diversity in the Fortune 500 took a loss recently as Xerox lost the only female African American CEO in the list.

Marge Magner, a member of Accenture’s board of directors, said, “Performance improves with diversity.” She speaks from her experiences of women leaders having the responsibility to make the way, to clear the path, to create opportunity.

It's a Smile, It's a Break, It's Summer Time Off: Why It Helps Women Leaders

Now that summer has officially started, even if we love what we do, many of us are fantasizing perhaps about time off from work.

Help! Navigating Positive Relationships as Women In The Workplace

We all know perhaps firsthand about the side effects of working with someone who is a Debbie Downer, but how about the after-effects of working with a person in the office who is always looking for help?

Career successMichele WeldonJune 27, 2016Career, communication, relationships, Research, women in the workplaceComment

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