Job Search Blues? 3 Strategies To Ease Anxiety

Job search anxiety is one of the many factors that may hold women back from professional development. HR Dive showed that 84% of women have the skills to advance their careers, but most of these female professionals feel anxious about their next career moves compared to their male counterparts. The younger ones, in particular, think their skill sets are not useful in the workplace and that their next career move is outside their control.

The good news is that you can overcome job search anxiety and gain control over your professional advancement. To address this dilemma, you must understand the root causes of job search anxiety and identify strategies that can address them.

Change Your Life, Career, Future: Why and How Starts Here and Now With Intentioning

One hour a week for 13 weeks is worth spending on the future you create for yourself.

“This is about zeroing in on the tangible thought process leaders need to move up in their careers,” says Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead, and creator of the mastermind series, “Intentioning: How to Transform Your Dreams to Reality with the Power of Intention,” launching March 23 and running until June 15.

Now Is Time For Women Leaders to Create An Equitable Future With Intentioning

The gender landscape of the workplace is changing as is the global culture of society. During Women’s History Month and in time for International Women’s Day March 8, it is crucial to examine how and why the leadership climate is shifting and where and how individuals can make the biggest impact on equity, fulfilling their own goals and dreams.

12 Great New Books By BIPOC Women for Black Women Entrepreneurs, Leaders

Black History Month is just one month out of the year but it is necessary to honor and heed the work of Black women forever and always. Now you have a reading list that can take you through every month of the year.

In this collection of 12 recent books by Black women authors, Take The Lead salutes the energy, advice and brilliance of authors producing nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels and more.

The Future Is NOW: Black Leader Leads Organization Into Intersectional Future

The future looks beautiful to Christian Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW,  president of the National Organization of Women, the 57-year-old organization built from the grassroots to address gender inequality at the height of the civil rights movement.

Open the Door and Nurture: Exec VP On How To Recruit, Hire, Retain Diverse Tech Candidates

Talent is ubiquitous. Opportunity is not. Getting in the door is key.”

Montreece Smith, executive vice president of people for Per Scholas, a national tech training initiative with 20 campuses and a staff of 500, placing 20,000 alumni at more than 850 employer partners, says she is helping to drive the company mission of opening doors to tech careers for persons of color.

“We are changing the face of tech,” says Smith.

Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Sharon Vinderine has a big mission for her company and her life, and it is founded on trust.

As the founder and CEO of Parent Tested Parent Approved, an awards-based platform with 200,000 community members in the U.S. and across the globe, Vinderine has a long history of intention and entrepreneurship, but one first met with skepticism.

Tis The Season To Be Reading: 18 of The Best 2022 Books For You

If you’re like me, and have a pile of books you are aiming to complete before the end of the year yet are still craving to know what is new and not to be missed, this list is for you. This is also a list for amazing gifts for the friends and colleagues in your life hungry for the best and brightest in nonfiction written by women who tackle workplace issues, personal struggles, strategies and insights to being your best self.

Sex, Camera, Power: How Filmmakers Affect Gender Bias in Workplace and Beyond

What you see is what you get. And what you don’t see is what you don’t get.

Nina Menkes, award-winning filmmaker, director and creator of the new documentary, “Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power” anchored a recent panel following a screening in Chicago at Facets on the historic visualization of characters identifying as women and how that mandates how systems treat half the world.

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The 12 Best Leadership Lessons From Take The Lead in 2022

Who really needs a partridge in a pear tree? What many women in the workplace need is a reliable set of accessible tools, insights and proven leadership lessons to enhance and transform their careers and their work lives.

Take The Lead offers those valuable tips each week in interviews with a broad range of leaders across identities and communities in various industries across the globe, representing different approaches to distinct challenges many face.

GivingTuesday CEO: Everybody Is Generous

“Generosity is a basic, positive human value. In today’s climate, it is a tremendously undervalued tool for depolarization,” says Asha Curran, CEO of GivingTuesday, a unique model of funding and community-based philanthropy in 85 countries, raising an estimated total of $7-10 billion over the last 10 years.