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35 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Want to Up Level Your Life

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 7, 2019 | Comments Off on 35 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Want to Up Level Your Life

Most of us continually seek improvement and increase in our lives. Are you are ready for something new and exciting in your home, work, or social scene? Your next chapter awaits. Here are 35 questions to ask yourself if you want to up level your life: What do you want more of?What do you want […]

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Lead With Confidence, Competence, and Credibility

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Lead With Confidence, Competence, and Credibility

Every great leader possesses confidence, competence, and credibility. Lead with CONFIDENCE! Display Your COMPETENCE! Trust Your CREDIBILITY Confidence – a feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities; full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing There will always be someone who doesn’t see […]

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Ready to Enhance Your Management Skills?

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 2, 2019 | Comments Off on Ready to Enhance Your Management Skills?

For over 20 years, I have dedicated much of my career to serving girls and women in the Washington Metropolitan area. I have had the honor of serving as Director of Programs at a dynamic agency for 11 years where I lead the development and expansion of life changing programs. That time has been both […]

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4 Ways Small Businesses Can Attract and Retain Young Talent

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 31, 2019 | Comments Off on 4 Ways Small Businesses Can Attract and Retain Young Talent

4 Ways Small Businesses Can Attract and Retain Young Talent The global work demography is gradually shifting to young talent. Don’t be left behind. Toby Nwazor Entrepreneur Contributor There’s a strong connection between achieving business objectives and hiring the right talent, as your employees are integral to every stage of success. In addition, the desire to upscale your small business […]

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Confidence Is Key to Overcoming Gender Bias at Work

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 29, 2019 | Comments Off on Confidence Is Key to Overcoming Gender Bias at Work

Confidence Is Key to Overcoming Gender Bias at Work By Carlyann Edwards Women face a number of challenges in the workplace. One of the most prevelant is overcoming confidence issues brought on by both internal and external perceptions and biases. Sexism in the workplace persists, and it has a direct impact on company culture. According […]

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Why Women CEOs Matter Now More Than Ever

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 26, 2019 | Comments Off on Why Women CEOs Matter Now More Than Ever

Why Women CEOs Matter Now More Than Ever By Deborah Sweeney I was thrilled to discover in a recent Entrepreneur article that national trends in company leadership are moving toward placing women in CEO positions instead of men. The article states that, so far, 879 CEOs have left their roles in 2018. Of these CEOs, […]

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Why the world needs more women CEOs

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Why the world needs more women CEOs

Why the world needs more women CEOs By Kiran Trehan Female CEOs of large firms are a rare breed. In the US in 2015, there were more CEOs called John running big companies in the US than women. In 2016, there were only six female CEOs in the firms covered by the FTSE 100 index […]

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Missing: Women CEOs’ Career Development. Here’s How to Fix it.

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 22, 2019 | Comments Off on Missing: Women CEOs’ Career Development. Here’s How to Fix it.

Missing: Women CEOs’ Career Development. Here’s How to Fix it. By Candy Butler The pool of women executives is small not because of a lack of women’s ambition, but because we are missing opportunities to develop and inspire women executives earlier in their career. In David Gelles’s New York Times article “Missing: Women CEOs,” he makes […]

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Nimble Leadership

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 19, 2019 | Comments Off on Nimble Leadership

Nimble Leadership By Deborah Ancona Elaine Backman Kate Isaacs Nobody has really recommended command-and-control leadership for a long time. But no fully formed alternative has emerged, either. That’s partly because high-level executives are ambivalent about changing their own behavior. They know perfectly well that their companies need to become more innovative—and they suspect it won’t […]

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