My Forbes Article: Employers Are Looking For Leaders With Soft Skills

Leadership, Women Leaders

Most of my clients pay much attention to developing hard skills in hopes of fast-tracking promotions.
Hard skills are essential of course, but if you want to venture into a leadership role you must develop your softer skills. I’ve found that a growing number of organizations prefer leaders who possess sharp emotional intelligence, personal awareness and a sense of service. In my most recent article for Forbes, I share more about the search for leaders with soft skills.

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How to be perceived as the leader when working remotely

Leadership, Success Secrets, Women Leaders, Workplace Challenges

The great leaders of our time have had the ability to get a populace enthused about the future, but our great leaders have rarely come from the corporate world. It’s because emphasis hasn’t been placed on the development of strategic narratives until recently. On the flip side, statistics show those companies with strong narratives – Starbucks, Alcoa, Walmart – have the most engaged employees. The difference between a merely satisfied and a fully engaged employee? As it turns out, 100%. You can’t do much better than that.

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Have you ever felt you should be further along in your career?

Business Growth, Leadership, Professional Development, Professional Performance, Women in the Workplace, Workplace Challenges

The great leaders of our time have had the ability to get a populace enthused about the future, but our great leaders have rarely come from the corporate world. It’s because emphasis hasn’t been placed on the development of strategic narratives until recently. On the flip side, statistics show those companies with strong narratives – Starbucks, Alcoa, Walmart – have the most engaged employees. The difference between a merely satisfied and a fully engaged employee? As it turns out, 100%. You can’t do much better than that.

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I’m Smart So Why Haven’t I Been Promoted To a Leadership Role Yet?

Personal Performance, Professional Performance, Women in the Workplace, Women Leaders

You probably knew them all the way back to grade school, you see them everyday in video conference calls (that is, if they show their face) are still dealing with them in your personal life, and are resigned to humoring them until the day you leave this life: The people who, while “book smart”, just don’t “get it.”

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