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You Need This: Leaders On Embracing Power, Overcoming Obstacles, Leading with Resilience & Taking Risks

Your internal obstacles are as powerful as your external obstacles at preventing you from realizing your full potential. But there are key strategies to overcoming both kinds of barriers.

Hope Timberlake, coach, trainer and author of Speak Up, Dammit: How To Quiet Your Fears, Polish Your Presence and Share Your Voice shared with a virtual audience at the recent 2022 Power Up Conference: The Big RE, how you can manage fears and get to making impact and change.

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Pay Me Now: 5 Essential Invoicing Tips Entrepreneurs, Leaders Can’t Afford to Miss 

The global electronic invoicing market is booming, and according to imarc's E-invoicing market forecast report for 2022-2027, it’s not going to stop anytime soon.

As businesses across various industries make the switch from paper-based invoices to completely digital ones, entrepreneurs are uncovering smart ways to further optimize their billing systems.

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Zooming In: Top Strategies For Better Remote Meetings

According to a Strome College of Business study, more than 92% of remote workers experience “Zoom Fatigue,” which does not bode well for overall team productivity. 

There are a few reasons that online meetings are not as effective as in-person meetings: there’s less real-time feedback; many online meeting attendees do not use sound or video; and multitasking takes over.

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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.

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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?

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Expert of Your Body: Author on Claiming Agency For Yourself, Your Work and Your Life

Call someone a genius and it’s a lofty compliment. But Sarah Ruhl, prolific playwright, poet and author, is officially a genius, as a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, as well as two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The author of Smile: The Story of A Face, was on stage at the Chicago Humanities Festival recently, speaking with her friend and colleague, Jessica Thebus, artist and Director of the Northwestern University MFA Program.

They discussed the gendered agency and ownership of your own body as a woman, as a human, and as someone who loses control of its ability to move and to respond as intended in the workplace and in the world.

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Nothing Artificial About Her Leadership: Tech CEO on Leading With Empathy

Perhaps the writing was on the wall from the time she was a teen.

At 16, Heather H. Wilson was a national officer for Future Business Leaders of America as a student at James Wood High School in Winchester, Virginia, where her mother was a teacher. Her father was an art teacher at an elementary school in town.

“I was raised by two educators who set very high bars and standards,” says Wilson, CEO of CLARA Analytics, the leading provider of artificial intelligence technology in the commercial insurance industry.

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More Than A Number: 7 Reasons Why Aging Is Your Secret Power

For too long, many women have bought into the lie that their relevance is proportional to their youth. The truth is, aging is a secret power.

Don’t believe me?

Take a look at 7 reasons why getting older is one of the best things that can happen to you.

“I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it’s not a personal illness,” actor Frances McDormand, recently said.

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Remote Survival: 3 Micro-Habits To Boost WFH Productivity

We won’t deny it. There's a huge amount of pressure on women in the workplace. Even as some workplaces return to the office, working from home is still part of the hybrid job description. For others, WFH is the “new normal.” Additional stressors add to this equation, but productivity shouldn't be one of them. When working efficiently at home, many tend to seek out dramatic and overly optimistic changes in an attempt to remedy procrastination and a lack of motivation. Unfortunately, there’s no one major quick fix to improving your productivity when working from home.

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How Risky Are You? Discover Your Risk Profile To Be The Best You Can Be

At a time of deep uncertainty when it is risky to board an airplane or even shake hands, international best-selling author Michele Wucker wants you to understand that what you risk, who you are and how you behave personally and professionally around risk are inextricably linked.

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Working With Baby: 8 Tips For WFH Moms

Last year it felt like everyone who could began working from home. The COVID-19 pandemic sped up already common work-from-home trends, and many parents found themselves suddenly balancing it all.

If you’re still working from home, there are things you can keep in mind to balance your work life and make sure that your baby or toddler is thriving. As a mother myself, I know firsthand how hard it can be to juggle work responsibilities with motherhood.

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