Caught in the Middle

Caught in the Middle: The truth is most organizations struggle mightily to retain talented mid-career women. The New York Times reports that even Norway (poster country for board diversity) faces these same challenges, too few women in line for the C suite

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Asian Women Leaders: Engines of growth

Asian Women Leaders - the real engines of growth, if organizations figure out how. Researchers contend that women in Asia are moving into management positions in greater numbers. While true for some countries, others lag far behind particularly in the executive suite.

Diversity Scorecard: 7 Steps to a Perfect Score

7 Steps to a Perfect Diversity Score - Stop focusing on policy and diversity spreadsheets, and better address individual and employee segments, acknowledging that the dearth of executive-level women significantly impacts the bottom line. And, ‘What does the talent we seek (and currently employ) want and need? How do their wants and needs drive their level of engagement and the organization’s bottom line?

Board Room Quotas & Midlife Crisis

The visible lack of diversity is fuelling the quota debates- but why do we keep looking in the same places, examine the same things, only to return lukewarm solutions?

Diversity next steps

Tailoring Diversity and Inclusion programs will be the next stage of development in building gender rich, culturally aware organizations. Stay tuned

Workout or breaking free?

Ron Ashkenas, an author, consultant and expert in GE workout processes discussed the challenges with succession and talent planning.  In short, many organizations spend an incredible amount of hours on…

Stop Puttin’ in the HOURS

What's the value of 10,000 twitter or facebook fans? Start building your network today, maybe 10 solid relationships are worth more than 10,000 connections.

Perception – 3 ways to manage

Perception Management - what's being said about you? Take a page out of Facebook or LinkedIn and have someone recommend you.

Forget EQ, build PQ

IQ? EQ? How about PQ? Positive political savvy skills - may not be your cup of tea but something everyone needs to embrace.