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gender and diversity and professional development

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Are You a Management Imposter?
Do you feel as if you are pulling the wool over the eyes of your workmates, hiding your incompetence? You are not alone. There is even a name for it: Imposter Syndrome. Management consultant Gill Corkindale takes up the subject of business professionals with...
Tags: Workforce Management, Career, Human Resources, Internet, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Blog, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-05-08
Women 'Stars' a Better Investment than Men
If you hire a male superstar stock analyst from a competitor his performance often drops -- along with the market value of your company, says Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg. But hire a female star analyst and your investment is much more likely to be rewarded, Groysberg writes...
Tags: Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Analyst, Investment, Women, Men, Sean Silverthorne, Career
Blog posts 2008-02-19
Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and Alphas
Many people learn instinctively the importance of managing up -- that is, keeping your boss in the loop, in your corner, and under control. More difficult and subtle is the art and science of managing peers, subordinates, different generations, geniuses, and jerks. To varying degrees, all have...
Tags: Workforce Management, Management, Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Performance Management, Professional Development, Gender And Diversity, Boss, Professor, Superstar, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2007-11-09
How Hectic Working Moms Can Stay Professional
For busy, working mothers, managing the craziness of children can put pressure on professionalism. With 10.4 million woman-owned firms in the U.S. (that's 4 in10 privately held businesses), more women need to balance managing their home and work lives. Entrepreneur.com's "mompreneur" Lisa Druxman offers tips on how to remain professional...
Tags: Professional Development, Management, Human Resources, Career, Jessica Stillman, Gender And Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur.com Inc., Mom
Blog posts 2007-07-23
How to Win at Office Politics
Like it or not, every workplace is a political environment. But operating effectively within it doesn't have to mean sucking up, lying, or slinging dirt. In its purest form, office politics is simply about getting from here to there: securing a promotion, seeing an idea come to fruition, or gaining...
Tags: Crash Course, Teamwork, Team, Career, Kelly Pate Dwyer, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Gender And Diversity, Job, Workplace, Goal, Office Politics, Professional Development, Harassment, Recruitment & Selection, Murphy, Colleague, Chances, Coworker
Articles 2007-07-02
The Three P's For Succeeding At A Job Fair
JOB FAIRS - many get nervous upon hearing these two words. Perhaps you have heard horror stories of big crowds, long lines, confusion and whole herds of blue-suited young men and women pushing their way to success. Despite your apprehension, if you follow the three Ps explained in this paper,...
Tags: Job, Career Directors International, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Gender And Diversity, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2005-10-09
Build Your Career Decision By Decision
"Organizations cannot function, certainly cannot succeed, without good decision-makers. Organizations reward those men and women who are willing and able to fill those roles," Therefore, opportunities are available for those who are willing and able to come to grips with decision-making. It's the very essence of management. Success depends on...
Tags: Decision, KalAajKal.com, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Tools & Techniques, Human Resources, Career, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Nina Sutton: Being a Mommy Entrepreneur
Nina Sutton is the Founder of DealsforDivas.com, an online shopping network that helps women find deals on fashion, beauty and lifestyle products. Nina talks about building a business out of her home and balancing a career with being a mommy.
Tags: Nina Sutton, Gender And Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Professional Development, Human Resources, Management, Career, Internet, Home Business, Mom, Entrepreneur, Dealsfordivas.com
Videos 2008-11-12
Five Lies It's OK to Tell at Work
The Find: 99 percent of the time at work as elsewhere the best policy is honesty, but one author explains there are a few select scenarios where a white lie is appropriate. The Source: Nicole Williams author of Girl on Top (yes, this is a business book)...
Tags: Lie, Professional Development, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Gender And Diversity, Healthcare, Career, Human Resources, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2009-07-16
Is Tech a Good Old Boy's Club for Executives?
I always viewed the executive ranks of the tech industry - where I spent my career - as primarily a good old boy's club. But is that true? Is the technology industry lagging the nation and the world in terms of women in senior management positions? The data says yes,...
Tags: Boy, Career, Club, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Management, Professional Development, Steve Tobak, Strategy
Blog posts 2009-04-02
Don't Tell Cynthia Carroll that Mining is Man's Work
By any stretch of the imagination, it's an improbable career progression. Born in New Jersey and educated at Skidmore, Cynthia Carroll is today CEO of the world's fourth largest mining company, Anglo American plc. How improbable? When she became CEO in 2007, Carroll was the first woman...
Tags: Job, Community, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Gender And Diversity, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-09-11
BTalk Turns 100 | BTalk Australia
(26min 23) Welcome to the 100th episode of BTalk Australia. Back in June we kicked off a daily podcast, aimed at Aussies but intended to be of interest to BNet users the world over. Today you can hear the variety of topics we have covered so...
Tags: Managing Director, Melbourne, Director, CEO, Six Sigma, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Sales Strategy, Social Networking, E-mail, Process Improvement, Marketing Research, Telecom & Utilities, Quality, Business Operations, Human Resources, Career, It Operations, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2008-10-19
A Quarter of Women Report Workplace Discrimination
The Find: When CareerBuilder.com asked nearly 4,000 American women if they felt they have equal opportunities for career advancement compared to men, 26 percent said no. The Source: A recent CareerBuilder.com survey. The Takeaway: It may have been a break-through year for...
Tags: CareerBuilder, Workplace, Women, Career Advancement, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Career, Workforce Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-08-11
Stanley Bing Joins BNET
This week, BNET welcomes a new contributor, bestselling business author and columnist Stanley Bing. For more than 20 years, Bing has leveled his smirking gaze at office politics and corporate life for magazines such as Fortune and Esquire. His books, including What Would Machiavelli Do? and Sun Tzu Was a...
Tags: Harassment, Professional Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Career, Karen Steen
Blog posts 2009-02-02
B-School Buzz: Haas Bails Out Alumni, LBS Podcast Targets Middle Managers, Smith Prof's "Road Rules"
Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence Berkeley's Haas School of Business has expanded its career services offerings for alumni in response to the economic downturn, adding evening career advising, job search teams for alumni out of work, and new programs for alumni in New York, which...
Tags: Alumni, Professor, Women, Middle Management, Stacy Blackman, Professional Development, Gender And Diversity, Leadership, Career, Human Resources, Management
Blog posts 2008-12-05
Broader Covered Perils Leaves Gaps In Covered Losses Under EPL Policies
Recent years have witnessed significant expansion in the scope of perils covered by employment practices liability insurance EPLI policies. When they were first offered in the early 1990s, few forms covered much more than wrongful termination, discrimination, and sexual harassment. However, by the mid-1990s, perils such as constructive discharge, wrongful...
Tags: International Risk Management Institute Inc., Policy, Professional Development, Harassment, Career, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2001-10-01
Six Rules of the Road From a Well-traveled Businesswoman
The article explains the six rules for business women. It explains the view of that women and minorities belong to "a unique moment in history" in which unprecedented economic opportunity co-exists with continuing impediments to advancement. This is the view of the CEO of CNBC.com women and minorities. Thomas-Graham...
Tags: Women, Knowledge@Wharton, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Human Resources, Career
White papers 2002-02-22
Flirting: Red Flag Or Lost Art?
Sure, flirting at work is risky business. However, when it is attention without intention, it can help men and women lighten up. The article assesses that HR can add a positive twist to one's communications training programs. The career skill is not what one can think. Building rapport can be...
Tags: Red Flag Software, Crain Communications Inc., Training, Career Skill, Professional Development, Workforce Management, Gender And Diversity, Training And Certification, Career, Human Resources
White papers 2000-06-01
Mentoring: Pros And Cons For HRM
Mentoring has received considerable coverage in last few decades and this is evident by the proliferation of research and popular literature available to the reader. It has been hailed as an important human resource management strategy, a career tool, and a workplace learning activity for men, women and minority groups...
Tags: HRM, Mentor, Queensland University Of Technology, Human Resource Management (HRM), Organizational Structure, Professional Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Career
White papers 2005-06-30
Mastering the Art of Leadership: Building Trust Leads to Career Success
The 3rd Annual Executive Women's Forum EWF promotes the building of trust-based relationships as a defining element of leadership. Over 300 women who have created and implemented some of the world's most effective information security and risk strategies rely on the Executive Women's Forum to build such relationships. The paper...
Tags: Success, CXO Media, Leadership, Gender And Diversity, Professional Development, Management, Human Resources, Career
White papers 2005-09-16
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