By Luciana Paulise The COVID-19 pandemic has turned workplaces upside down, with employees struggling to do their jobs, worrying about health and finance issues, and company cultures being jeopardized by remote work. Women, in particular, have been negatively impacted. Companies need to build systems to address these issues to prevent women from leaving the workplace. Companies and organizations need to help…
A mentally and physically healthy workforce creates wins for the overall business.
To help you identify your boundaries, here are three types of boundaries successful people set at work.
Women are undeniably good for business. Numbers consistently show that gender-diverse companies are more likely to experience above-average profitability. Also, from my experience I have observed that women add an important complementary perspective to the business issue at hand, which often results in a wider range of solutions. Thus, it is rational for workplaces to create supportive environments for women…
How To Speak Up And Stand Out In The Workplace Do you have trouble speaking up for your needs in the workplace? How about pushing back and saying no when you need to? Do you consider yourself to be a nice person, but constantly second-guess yourself? If so, then Dr. Lois Frankel is someone you need to know. After all, she has helped tens of thousands…
In today’s business environment, love should trump fear every time when you’re dealing with young employees.
For female leaders, there is no shortage of advice for how to reach the top. By learning to lean in, speak out, negotiate, delegate, and a dozen other behaviors, women everywhere are launching themselves through the glass ceilings of their organizations, landing jobs at or near the C-suite level. But what happens after the promotion? While top-level jobs are tough on everyone,…
Companies spend millions on antibias training each year. The goal is to create workforces that are more inclusive, and thereby more innovative and more effective. Studies show that well-managed diverse groups outperform homogeneous ones and are more committed, have higher collective intelligence, and are better at making decisions and solving problems. But research also shows that bias prevention programs rarely…
More Men want to help Women at Work, but they don’t now how, a new Study suggests. Women’s Equality Day is a reminder of how far we’ve come in progressing gender equality. There was a time when women had to fight for the right to vote and having six female candidates running for president would’ve been unfathomable. But, despite our…
The differences in typical female vs. typical male relationship styles are important to understand for overall mental—and, as you’ll see here, physical—health. As Dr. Habib Sadeghi explains, how those relationship styles play out in the workplace, where many of us now spend the majority of our waking hours, appears to affect women more profoundly than men. Generally, women are more affected by…