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In the last blog, I talked about the importance of forging corporate relationships, why it can be hard for women to do and offered specific tips from my interview published in the July 5, 2013 San Francisco Chronicle. In this blog, I’d like to focus on what seems to be an even more difficult challenge for…

As I work with women at all career levels, I spot patterns. Of course, no pattern is universally true, but most are true enough to pass along to career-minded women—either as a strategy to embrace or a pitfall to avoid. One tendency I’ve observed over and over: women are usually great at building strong personal…

We place great emphasis on “developing a personal brand” at our WOMEN Unlimited, Inc. programs. Why? Because, despite the critical importance of personal brands, women are often reluctant to look at themselves that way.  As we’ve seen from research, women tend to shy away from what they view as self-promotion or “tooting their own horn”.…

The debate about single-gender learning environments is an interesting one with many questions circling around it. Are women more likely to speak up when it’s just them?  Will they be more themselves? Learn better? Do better once the training is completed? …Or… Are such environments bubbles sheltering women from the real dual-gender world?  Do they…

On Tuesday, May 21st, WOMEN Unlimited, Inc. hosted a Twitter Chat to discuss how the concepts in Sheryl Sandberg’s runaway bestseller, Lean In, apply to women’s everyday work lives and dovetail with the principles and practices shared in WOMEN Unlimited programs over the past 19 years. A variety of women took the opportunity to tweet…

It’s been a long time since a business book has received the attention and praise of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In. And the acclaim is well deserved. As someone continually involved in helping women achieve their full corporate potential, I found myself nodding in agreement over and over as I read Sandberg’s book.  She tells it…

So far there’s no contest. The business book of the year is Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In.  As COO of Facebook with a track record of startling success, Sandberg has both the experience and the clout to advise women at all levels on how to “Lean In” for going all the way in their careers. I…

Let me start out by saying that I’m not a bean counter. I’m a results counter. I believe that the results of training and development programs can be measured in a variety of ways: some numeric…some not. In this blog, I’ll focus on the numeric aspects and how they continually point to the success of…

I have a great job.  I get to be part of leadership development for women and to see a large number of our program graduates get promoted. As advocates of leadership development for women, we take a special kind of pride at Women Unlimited in the success of our graduates.  In a survey to alumnae,…