Career Advice for Women | The Way Women Work

9 C’s to the C-Suite

Do you have your sights set on getting into executive/senior management? Want to be a CEO, CFO or a CIO? Adopt these nine key practices of women who have landed a senior management position.

The Most Common Attribute of Successful Women

Do you share the most common trait of successful women entrepreneurs and professionals globally? Learn what it is, why it’s important, how you can go about getting it, and more.

Business Women, BE BOLD

Here are some examples of how you can BE BOLD in you own way, in your career or business. We want to hear from you: What does being bold mean to you? In what ways have you been bold?

Top 10 Best Career Advice from Women Around the World

We’ve compiled the Top 10 best business and career advice from some of the incredible women we’ve interviewed and connected with around the world to inspire you, no matter where you are on your professional journey.

Don’t Presume It’s No Without Asking

Successful women presume that the answer will be yes. They know that decisions are usually made based on weighing merit and evaluating facts. So, make a good case for what you need and before you assume the answer is no – ASK!

Make Tiny Changes to Win Even Greater Career Success

I encourage you to pause today and consider: What small adjustment or change could you or do you want to make in your personal or professional life? Remember that even if it is not noticeable to other people, it can…

The Generosity of Super Connectors

In his book, Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi, introduced us to the term Super Connectors. These are people who have and maintain contact with thousands of people. What differentiates super connectors is not that they know thousands of people, it is that their network is very diverse. Moreover, when a super connector contacts someone in their network, […]

Missing a Mentor? 5 Awesome Alternatives

A shortage of mentors is something we often hear about from our readers and the women we coach. Among business and professional women in emerging economies and in developing countries, the issue is even more acute. A recent Gallup Poll indicated that this lack of mentors was one of the key factors hindering women from becoming business owners in […]

Throw Out the Ladder, Take a Leap

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: JACKIE HYLAND, 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar It’s post-college graduation. It’s a few years out of college. Heck, it’s 40 years into your career and you are still trying to get-on or work-up the infamous “corporate ladder.” And if it’s not the corporate ladder, it is the non-profit ladder, the organizational ladder, or the public sector ladder. […]

What I Learned from Madeleine Albright

Every woman who wants to advance in her career can glean from these 3 valuable lessons that Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright taught me at Georgetown University in the 1980s. As described in my article in the Huffington Post today, her words still ring true for me and I hope they will for you […]