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Advice, Amazing Career Success, Breakthroughs, Career Growth, Careers Should You Include Volunteer Experience On Your Resume? Part of the series “Creating Your Own Career Breakthrough” As a career and leadership coach, part of my work involves helping professionals uplevel their LinkedIn profiles and resumes to share the most compelling information they can about their work, values and... Read More

Advice, Amazing Career Success, Breakthroughs, Career Growth, Empowerment, Leadership, Thought Leadership, Women in Business, Women in Leadership Deloitte’s New Survey Links Playing Sports To Career Success For Women Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Women, Leadership and Vision” Amid record-breaking attendance and viewership of women’s sports, a new survey released in August 2023 from Deloitte found that playing competitive sports often sets women up to build successful careers. The... Read More

Advice, Career and Life Satisfaction Survey, Career Growth, Careers, Close Your Power Gaps, Empowerment, Professional Growth, success The Top 6 Actions That Promote Professional Growth and Success Take these six actions to promote your professional growth and success - for greater reward, fulfillment and impact in your career Read More

Advice, Amazing Career Success, Careers, Challenges, Inspiration for Change, Leadership, Professional Growth, Support for Change, Thought Leadership, Women in Leadership How To Assess Poor Managers In Your Organization And Train Better Ones Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” Recently, I was interviewed by Radhika Panjwani for the Canadian newspaper The Globe & Mail, exploring the topic of why promoting your star employee into a managerial role may not be a good... Read More

Advice, Best Work/Best Life, Career and Life Satisfaction Survey, Challenges, Empowerment, Personal Growth, Work-Life Balance 3 Key Ways To Begin Overcoming Deep Perfectionism And Self-Doubt Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Living and Working Better” Perfectionism is a trait that many millions of people around the world demonstrate and experience. It can be productive at times, but also, on the flip side, it can be very... Read More

Advice, Brave Up, Career and Life Satisfaction Survey, Communication, Professional Growth, Resources How To Resign From Your Job In The Most Professional Way Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Supporting Today’s Workforce” In my work as a career and leadership coach for mid- to high-level professional women, a key focus is supporting clients in planning the best steps to accelerate their growth and... Read More

Advice, Careers, Leadership, Professional Growth, success, Support for Change, Thought Leadership, Women in Leadership Employees Now Expect Empathy In The Workplace, But Half Aren’t Getting It Part of Kathy Caprino’s Series “Today’s True Leadership” In the past several years, with the deep challenges that the COVID pandemic presented, along with economic hardships, extreme demands at work and at home, workforce reductions and more, it’s become... Read More

Advice, Most Powerful You, Professional Growth, Support for Change, Thought Leadership, Training How To Answer The Question ‘What Makes You Unique?’ Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Becoming The Most Powerful and Confident You” In the past several years, with the deep challenges that the COVID pandemic presented, along with economic hardships, extreme demands at work and at home, workforce reductions... Read More

Advice, Inspiration for Change, Leadership, Professional Growth, Thought Leadership, Wellness at work How Leading From The ‘Inside Out’ Transforms Lives, Work Cultures And Businesses Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” Leaders today are facing numerous unprecedented challenges that are requiring them to adapt in ways that many, if not most, are not yet prepared or trained to do. Just a few of... Read More

Advice, Careers, Communication, Empowerment, Personal Growth, Professional Growth Being Highly Sensitive Is A Superpower – Here’s How To Leverage It Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Becoming The Most Powerful and Confident You” In today’s society, being viewed as “highly sensitive” can lead to being demeaned and considered less effective or “valuable” in the workplace. Negative terms such as “overly-emotional”... Read More

Advice, Careers, Job Search, Professional Growth Key Steps To Retaining Your Executive Job In Today’s Highly Competitive Market Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Building Your Best Career In Today’s Changing Times” As many of us have heard in the news during the past months, fears of a looming recession are mounting and millions are facing financial challenges that have... Read More

Advice, Impact, Inspiration for Change, Inspiring Thoughts, Leadership The Human Side of Innovation: Key Traits of True Innovators and Innovative Organizations Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” People have written about and discussed the concept of “innovation” at organizations extensively over many years. Interestingly, there has been an overly keen emphasis on a set of prescribed steps that... Read More

Advice, Brave Up, Breakthroughs, Feeling Your Best, Inspiration for Change, Inspiring Thoughts, Knowing Yourself, Most Powerful You, Personal Growth, Tips for Empowerment 5 Core Beliefs That Lead Us To Resist Facing Reality Instead Of Changing It Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Becoming The Most Powerful You” In speaking to a friend this week who is dealing with an extremely narcissistic boss, something became even clearer to me than ever before: When we’re in an unhealthy, manipulative or... Read More

Advice, Best Work/Best Life, Empowerment, Leadership, Men and Women, Men vs. Women at Work How To Eliminate Gender Bias In Your Hiring And Employment Practices Today Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Creating Workplaces That Work For All” Throughout my 18-year corporate career in publishing and marketing many years ago, I experienced firsthand the devastating impact of gender bias and discrimination, and sexual harassment, and those... Read More

Advice, Amazing Career Success, Best Work/Best Life, Careers, Challenges, Feeling Your Best, Work You Love, Work-Life Balance Why Burnout Is An Epidemic Now And 3 Powerful Ways To Address It Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Living and Working Better” Every day, we hear in the media that the experience of burnout has become overwhelming for many people around the world. I’ve personally heard from so many friends and clients sharing sentiments... Read More

Advice, Amazing Career Success, Best Work/Best Life, Branding, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Following Your Dreams, Knowing Yourself, success, Work You Love, Work-Life Balance How To Create Your Legacy And Sell Yourself Through Your Personal Brand Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Living and Working Better” Today, building a “personal brand” is something we hear about regularly in the media and in leadership, entrepreneurial and professional growth circles. But figuring out exactly what our personal brand... Read More