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I am a senior woman in an organization whose power structure is dominated by men. How do I succeed in this game without losing track of who I am?
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| Women who have attained senior positions in an organization often find it lonely at the top. A 2006 Catalyst Canada study shows that only 4.2% of FP500 companies have a woman as CEO or president. Women make up nearly half the work force, but rarely make it into the ranks of corporate officer. In fact, only 7.3% of so-called “clout titles” belong to women.
As a woman in a senior position, you can maintain your personal momentum by staying true to who you are, knowing your strengths and having the confidence to show them off, as I describe below.
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Franchising: Give Yourself a Chance
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| Everyone wants to be there own boss. The desire runs deep in America and with big business downsizing and outsourcing and sending jobs overseas, the demand for top franchises and business opportunities is only going to increase.
These aspiring entrepreneurs, in all likelihood, have never owned a business and as a result look to franchises with a proven business model as a possible alternative to starting a business on there own. |
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Counselling Employees To Build on Strengths
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| A current management fad is that we only truly improve by building on our strengths. Peter Drucker started this trend back in the fifties, but it has become increasingly popular in the last decade or so, especially with the writings of Marcus Buckingham, et al. Building on strengths is indeed the best way to improve performance and the key to success, whether in business or in life. This article provides some helpful pointers on counselling employees and subordinates to magnify their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. |
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Are You Maximizing Your Genius?
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| Most people go to bed thinking about the things they could improve or do better in and very few think about the things that they did well that day. Living your natural genius is all about capitalizing on your strengths and exceptional talents and delegating your areas of weaknesses.
Ask yourself: How much more could you accomplish in your business if you were an expert in your strengths and knew how to delegate your weaknesses effectively? |
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I think I want to downsize my Boss but is franchising right for me
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| In this second article of the series we consider the question; is franchising is right for you? We are all individuals with strengths and weaknesses. How do you know if franchising fits your strengths? This question must be dealt with openly and honestly before one considers a step into the "franchise zone". Join us as you answer 5 questions that will help you focus on this important question. |
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How to Leverage the Strengths of Four Generations Through Mentoring
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| Mentoring programs in the workplace serve to help bring out the strengths of all of the company's employees and allows you to leverage the experiences and strengths across the four generations of staff members who are working together. With mentoring programs in place most businesses discover that their profitability increases and have lower training costs. |
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Discover and Use Your Personal Strengths
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| Once you become consciously aware of your key personal strengths and make it a lifetime goal to use them all the time, you will increase your productivity, be more pleasant to work with and save yourself the pain of trying to improve non strengths. We don't succeed by using our weaknesses. We thrive by using the full potential of our strengths.
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Successful People Never Stop Learning
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| Successful people are outstanding performers. Outstanding performers remain outstanding performers by becoming lifelong learners. They continually expand their knowledge in order to get out in front of the pack and stay there. Begin your lifelong learning journey by focusing on your strengths and working to improve them every day. Building on your strengths is easier that overcoming your weaknesses. When you build on your strengths you can make incremental improvements. However, if you have a glaring gap in your skills, address it now. Don't wait to take necessary quantum leaps. |
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How to Write Better and Faster -- And Have More Fun Doing It!
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| Every writer has different habits, unique strengths, and mistakes they always make in their work. Knowing your own habits, flaws, mistakes, and strengths can help you compensate for your limitations, and work with your own natural strengths and rhythms. To get to know your writer-self a little better, consider these three areas of your work. |
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Is Your Life Messing With Your Mind? Letting Your Natural Skills Take the Lead
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| What is going on that so many are not happy with what they do? Everyone is born with innate potential for a unique set of capacities, skills, and abilities. Unfortunately, very often this potential is left undeveloped, as people seek to build their lives and careers on capacities and skills that are outside their innate potential. A life built on acquired skills will mess with your mind. It will keep you exhausted physically, psychologically, and emotionally. |
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Understanding Your Strengths and Values: Key to Finding Your Passion at Work
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| Knowing yourself and feeling confident about yourself helps a lot in finding your passion at work. This begins with accurate understanding of your strengths and values – it’s what makes you feel good about yourself. The process starts by evaluating the factors that molded your personality – family, experiences, education, and trainings. Majority of your strengths and values can be determined even at young age. Some are product of your parents’ upbringing while some are product of unfulfilled needs you try to reinforce as you grow mature. Knowing your top top-five strengths and values gives you a template by which you measure choices in your career and personal life. Being successful at work means you can freely use all of these strengths as well as fulfill your values. |
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Create the Memory of Your Future
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| A vision is something that pulls us forward - through action, intention and heart. It's in creating a vision, and using our strengths that we create the memories of our future. This is the place in which inspiration, contribution and engagement live. This articles provides 3 steps to utilize your Strengths in designing a future vision in which you achieve the results you desire. |
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