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Back-to-Work After Baby

8 Tips for Balancing Work-Life After Having a Baby   Coming back to work after maternity leave is a big adjustment! You miss your baby (of course). You might feel guilty over secretly enjoying the...

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Virtual Leadership Skills

6 Leadership Tips for Today’s Digital Age of Remote Employees   Do you work in the same location as every person on your team? In today’s digital age, I bet the answer is “no” for most of you. With...

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Hitting the Pause Button

The Importance of Pressing Pause and Taking a Mental Break  Gone are the days of multitasking. Multitasking used to mean taking notes during a three-hour meeting and fixing the audiovisual equipment,...

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Reducing Self-Doubt Thoughts

How to Eliminate Negative Self-Talk for a Happier, Healthier You   Have you ever thought to yourself, ‘How could I be such an idiot,’ ‘I look so bad,’ ‘I can’t do that,’ or ‘ I hate the way I…’ If so,...

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Dressing for Your Style

How to Make the Office Dress Code Work for You   Your image is important. Your appearance gives others a peek into your personality before you ever say a word. It can shape other’s perceptions of you...

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Small Business Digital Tips

Top Web and Social Media Marketing Tips for Small Businesses   Small business owners are expected to be experts, without any formal training in social media, in a field that most of us did not see...

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Respect & Equality at Work 

Me Too? A Reflection on the Evolution of Acceptable Workplace Behavior and Building a Culture of Respect   Two women’s empowerment movements have gained significant traction in the past year: #MeToo...

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Successful Working Mothers

12 Tips for Maintaining Your Professional Status and Growing Your Career After Having Kids  For many women just building a career can be a huge hurdle and a great milestone. All too often women find...

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Fathers as Career Mentors

4 Tips from My Father on Getting the Job Done   Like many of you, my first and best career mentor is my father. Many studies suggest that for women, strong, positive relationships with their fathers...

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Summer Reading List

10 Books to Add to Your Reading List This Summer   Summer is the perfect time to catch-up on your reading list. Whether you’re looking for leadership inspiration or want to be entertained by the latest...

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Winning Salary Negotiations

7 tips for Winning at Salary Negotiations: It really Doesn’t Need to be an Intimidating Process   As a higher education professional working in a university career center, I encounter any number of...

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Lessons From A Mentor

9 Career Lessons You Will Learn Along the Way   A career is like a journey: Some come with maps, some with a general sense of direction, and some are random and not thought through at all. Regardless,...

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The Motherhood Penalty

8 Tips to Help Moms Fight the Pay Gap   Mothers in the U.S. who work traditional full-time jobs receive 71 cents for every dollar fathers earn who work the same amount annually, which equates to...

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Tips for Working From Home

7 Tips to Help You Be More Efficient When Working From Home   I’ve worked from home for two different organizations for close to five years. My job entails a lot of email, time at the computer, and...

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Success Mixed With Empathy

Taking a More Empathetic Approach at Work Will Yield Better Results   Step into any bookstore or airport drug store, and the choice of literature on leadership can max out your credit card within...

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Creating a Business Dashboard

Insights on How a Dashboard Can Help Enable a Successful Business   Running a business takes a lot of focus, passion, and dedication. There are many tools and tons of classes to help you along the way,...

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Instinct, Training & Stress

Insights on Using Instinct and Training to Handle Stressful Situations   When I entered the police force in Pittsburgh, it was at a tumultuous moment in the city’s history—the city was experiencing...

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Small Business Success

5 Tips for Business Success Through Mentorship, Kindness, and Sacrifice   Starting and running a business can be exhilarating, nerve-wracking and everything in between.  Your business is “your baby”...

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Enhancing Executive Presence

3 Tips for Demystifying and Embracing Leadership Presence  The first time I had heard about leadership presence, I thought it was career advice about how to dress appropriately—suits for sophisticated...

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Saving for Retirement

4 Easy Steps to Help You Save & Prepare for Retirement   The purpose of a retirement fund is to cover your cost of living once you stop working. Without help from an employer-led program, it can be...

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