Failing with Grace: Learning from Our Mistakes
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The next time you experience failure, take the time to analyze it and figure out what lessons you can take away from it. Here are a few ways you can analyze and learn.
Great Videos for Executives: Say Hello to TED
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Whether you’re prepping for a major meeting or just need a break in your day, you can stop by the TED site and view one of thousands of TED talks designed to provoke, inspire, amuse and change the way you think about the world.
Your Business Reputation: Something to Talk About
Karen Keller
The phrase ‘His name is mud” came from the story about a man named Samuel Mudd who was thought to be a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assignation. His conviction was later overturned, but nonetheless, the phrase stuck with him and for more than a hundred years later.
10 Quick Ways Women Can Empower Themselves
Karen Keller
When you feel empowered, you can accomplish anything you desire. Empowerment for women doesn’t mean you have to burn your bra or spit at the end of the bar. It doesn’t mean you need to be aggressive or stare down the nearest competitor with vigor. But there are a few things you can do to set yourself on the road to empowerment.
- Value relationships where you are an equal. This applies to both personal and professional relationships where you are respected and valued as a person for what you believe, and the ideas you bring to the table.
Improving People Skills: Get Ahead In Life With Interpersonal and Communication Skills That Work!
Karen Keller
Day in and day out, whether at work or running our own business, we have to interact with people. We may talk face-to-face, by phone or Skype, by email, or on popular virtual gathering places like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Never before have we had so many ways we can connect to people, and never has it been so critical to make your presence strong and consistent no matter the platform.
Five Great Things About Female Leadership
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What do you find so wonderful about the female leadership community? There's a lot!
The Power of Self-Discipline: Do You Have It?
Karen Keller
Self-discipline is the skill to get yourself to take action in spite of your emotional condition. It’s about willpower, persistence and hard work.
The pivotal point of self-discipline is when you make a conscious decision, it is virtually guaranteed that you will follow through with it. The self-disciplined person loses 20 pounds. The self-disciplined person runs the marathon. The self-disciplined person creates wealth. The self-disciplined person finds real love.
What Never To Take to a Business Conference
Karen Keller
Every person has attended one too many business conferences in his or her lifetime. You listen to savvy, smart people telling you everything they think you should do, be or feel. Most of which you already know. But you go anyway.
Take a close look at what is happening when you go. What will serve you? Who are you in these awkward exchanges? Besides your too-tight suit, hard-core makeup and brand new shoes, what are some important pieces you definitely should leave at home, or better yet, get completely rid of
Executive Coaching | Your Secret Weapon
Submitted by Karen Keller Ph.D on
Executive coaching has wide and varied applications–as many different ones as there are companies and individuals working for them. Here are a few typical situations where coaching can provide significant benefits.
Women’s Corporate Leadership: Three Key Attributes
Submitted by Karen Keller Ph.D on
I see the best examples of women’s corporate leadership in my everyday life. What do these amazing women teach me about women’s corporate leadership? Great executive women aren’t about the Brooks Brothers suits…they’re leaders with proven tactics who build, create and encourage!
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