Your Mental Wellness At Work: Unmind Leader Offers 6 Ways To Manage COVID Anxiety

If COVID-19 has not directly affected your mental health, then you are likely a very rare case.

And if the collision of crises in economics, health, injustice, family, work and career have touched you in the last year, then know there is access to steps to improve your mental health.

Moving towards an economic, health and wellness recovery, many women—and men— are strategizing to not only cope with the effects of the pandemic, but to manage a re-emergence and recovery post-COVID that is better than before the crisis hit.

Changing the Workplace, Tools and Tips, Life tools and tips, Career successMichele WeldonDecember 4, 2020Mental Health, Anxiety, Wellness, Workplace Culture, Covid-19, CoronavirusComment

We're Not OK: 5 Ways To Address Mental Health Concerns In The Workplace Now

With the projections that the “normal life” of pre-pandemic may not return until the end of 2021—if ever—is causing enormous anxiety, affecting most everyone from a remote contract freelancer to a CEO of a global enterprise.

“Are you OK?” is a question leaders can ask at the start of a Zoom conference calls, but it no longer affords a simple, quick response.

Changing the Workplace, Life tools and tips, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonSeptember 25, 2020Mental Health, Workplace Culture, Covid-19, Work From Home, CoronavirusComment

There’s Power in Naming and Power in Knowing your Name

Issue 134— July 6, 2020

My cousin Elizabeth is making good use of this time of sheltering during the pandemic to dig into our family history. It was rooted in the small town of Birzai, Lithuania for hundreds of years until two world wars either killed them or dispersed them to many corners of the world. One of the most intriguing and yet exasperating parts of this exploration is getting the names right as spellings varied from language to language. Vinn became Vinh or Bein, Henne to Hannah, and even some in the same nuclear family some people spelled their last names differently.

So what is in a name anyway? Identity, Personhood. Justice. Say her name: Breonna Taylor. Say his name: George Floyd.

The Sum, Tools and Tips, Women Career SuccessGloria FeldtJuly 6, 2020Leadership Tools, History, Women In Business, 50 Women In Journalism, Leadership, PodcastComment

Best Of States, Worst of States: Equality, Opportunity Differ

Where you live and who you are unfortunately makes a big difference on how you live and work in this country.

Take The Lead took a look at several new studies— on racial equality by state, opportunities for LGBTQIA persons by state, remote work access by state, post-COVID-19 jobs and women in tech opportunities—to clarify the geographic framing of equity and opportunity in America.

Career choices, Women Career Success, Tools and Tips, Parity, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonJune 27, 2020Pay Gap, LGBTQ, Equality, Equal Pay, Racial Equity, Gender DiversityComment

Now Is Best Time To Network: Mom Project Gives $500K to Extend Jobs, Projects

“Now is one of the best times to network,” says Kayla Tekus, director of marketing at The Mom Project, a Chicago-based talent and coaching company focusing on career paths of women and mothers, with a community of over 250,000 professionals and more than 2,000 companies.

The latest news for the company founded in 2016 by CEO Allison Robinson, is that they are offering $500,000 in their Stronger Together Fund to small and medium sized businesses to retain female employees or hire new ones on contracts, with $1,000 to $5,000 grants. Thirty grants have been given so far.

Career success, Changing the Workplace, Networking with Purpose, Tools and Tips, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonMay 18, 2020Networking, Women Leaders, Mothers, How women can advance their careersComment

If You Must Let Her Go: 8 Ways To Make Tough Choices and Lead Compassionately

“You’re fired” is not such a funny meme right now.

The economic realities of the recent months are driving up unemployment to more than 30 million individuals, with furloughs and diminishing project work for most every American who is a non-essential worker. Being on the receiving end of that news is devastating.

Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par..., Changing the Workplace, Leadership tools and tips, Tools and Tips, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonMay 4, 2020Leadership, Gender Parity, Coronavirus, Women In Business, Leadership Tools, Covid-19Comment

At Your Service: The Strategies and Shelter You May Need

Take The Lead is available for inspiration and tools as you shelter in place with resources you can watch, read and listen to now. More than a month in, with most everyone in the country quarantined and working remotely or at social distances, it is fair to say everyone in the country is affected by COVID-19. Many report the economic and emotional burden is higher for women.

Change Leadership, Inspirational Role Models, Leadership tools and tips, Life tools and tips, Networking with Purpose, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonApril 3, 2020Coronavirus, Women Leadership, Take The Lead, Gender Issues, Women Equality, How women can advance their careers, Covid-19Comment

You Go First: Salary Transparency Almost Closes Gender Pay Gap

The good news if you are a woman working in healthcare, architecture, engineering, education and a few other industries is that pay equity is the norm when your organization has pay transparency. The bad news is if you are a female in food services, retail, customer service, transportation and a few more male-dominated fields, you will likely be paid less than men doing the same job.

Changing the Workplace, Career success, Parity, Tools and Tips, Women Like You, Life tools and tipsMichele WeldonJanuary 28, 2020Pay Gap, Pay Transparency, Salary Transparency, Parity, working womenComment

So Convincing: Persuasion Author’s 6 Tips To Get Others On Your Side

Persuasion had to start early in life for Lee Hartley Carter, author and president of maslansky + partners, a global language strategy firm based in New York with the tagline, “It’s not what you say, it’s what they hear.” Growing up the first daughter in a New Jersey family where her mother and most all female relatives stayed home to raise children, Carter says she still has to answer the question, “What do you mean you’re still working?”

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Change Leadership, Leadership tools and tips, Life tools and tips, Media, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonJanuary 6, 2020Persuasion, Communication, Empathy, Women Leaders, ArgumentationComment

Press Pause: Co-CEO Offers 3 Life Lessons For The New Year and Forever

At 34, Tania Luna has already held 30 jobs. Now co-CEO at LifeLabs Learning, the author, who also co-founded Surprise Enterprises, attributes her resilience to a complicated life viewed with gratitude and surprise. Luna thought the Brooklyn homeless shelter she and her family lived in during the early 90s was a hotel. They had arrived in New York when she was five years old from Ukraine seeking asylum after the devastating Chernobyl accident in 1986.

Change Leadership, Ambition / Intention, Changing the Power Par..., Inspirational Role Models, Life tools and tips, Tools and TipsMichele WeldonDecember 17, 2019Female CEO, Inspirational Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Success, Career AdviceComment

Close Out: 6 Ways To End The Year Stronger At Wortk

I have been tempted to send end of the year emails to colleagues who routinely fail to respond to necessary emails with: “The year is almost over, can you please answer this question from July?” But I know that is not a good idea. Whether you are an entrepreneur with a small business, or a manager in a large corporation, you will want to get your records and files in order.

Ambition / Intention, Career success, Life tools and tips, Leadership tools and tips, Tools and Tips, Women Like YouMichele WeldonDecember 10, 2019Business Women, New Year, Advice, Positivity, 2020Comment

It’s Not Bragging If It’s True: 4 Ways To Play Up Your Wins

You may have heard the joke that goes like this (and you can fill in the blank): How do you know if a man (won an award, got a job promotion, attended an Ivy League school…)? Answer: Because he will tell you. Women, not so much. A new study called The Self-Promotion Gap of more than 1,000 men and women shows that 69 percent of women would rather downplay their accomplishments than talk about them.