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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

Breakthroughs, Career Growth, Careers, Knowing Yourself, Leadership, Management, Personal Growth, Professional Growth, Training The Worst Mistakes New Managers Make That Hurt Their Teams And Cultures Along with what my research has shown are the 7 most damaging power and confidence gaps that professionals face, there are 5 big blunders mistakes new leaders and managers make, despite their commitment to their own success and that of... 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, 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, 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

Careers, Leadership, Support for Change, Wellness at work Key Steps Organizational Leaders Must Take To Ensure Pay Equity Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Building Workplaces That Work For All” Employee pay is typically one of the largest expenses on a company’s income statement and a critical factor in an organization’s overall level of productivity, engagement, retention, and ultimate... 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, 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

Leadership, Thought Leadership, Women in Leadership Celebrated Leader Frances Hesselbein On What Great Leadership Is And Is Not Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” The subject of leadership is arguably among the most covered and analyzed topics of our day. But I’ve found that much of what we read, and the prescriptions given for great... Read More

Advice, Amazing Career Success, Challenges, Communication, Leadership, Professional Growth, Support for Change, Thought Leadership, Training, Women in Leadership The Worst Blunders Inexperienced Managers Make That Hurt Their Teams And Work Cultures Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Helping Your Team, Workforce and Culture Thrive” In working with many new and inexperienced managers over the past 16 years, and in my own former corporate career, I’ve seen that it’s very common for... Read More

Advice, Amazing Career Success, Breakthroughs, Careers, Creativity, Inspiration for Change, Inspiring Thoughts, Leadership, Professional Growth, Thought Leadership 3 Key Lessons For CEOs And Founders Needing A Creative Breakthrough Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” According to recent data and research, creativity has been ranked as a top skill for business success today. In a 2020 World Economic Forum “Future of Jobs Report,” creativity was rated highly as... Read More

Close Your Power Gaps, Communication, Empowerment, Inspiration for Change, Leadership, Personal Growth, Women in Business, Women in Leadership Vulnerability In Leadership – Why It’s So Needed and How You Can Expand It Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” The concept of vulnerability has been explored in hundreds of different ways in the past years, relating to social and cultural learning, organizational growth, leadership, professional and personal success and connection... Read More

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Impact, Inspiration for Change, Leadership, Powerful Self-Marketing, Professional Growth, Tips for Empowerment, Yes I Can Thinking Do You Hate Selling? How To Love Sales And Make A Bigger Impact Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Leading Entrepreneurial Success Today” For many professionals, consultants, practitioners and entrepreneurs, the act of selling their goods and services is distasteful at best, a horrifying experience at worst. And selling often gets a bad... Read More

Breakthroughs, Careers, Challenges, Communication, Leadership, success Transform Your Work Relationships With Breakthrough Communications Tools Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” Many of us have struggled throughout our careers and personal lives trying to deal with relationships that are conflicted at best, painful and damaging at worst. In fact, most of us... Read More

Advice, Best Work/Best Life, Careers, Inspiration for Change, Leadership, success, Wellness at work Rebuilding Great Workplace Cultures As CEOs Join The ‘Great Resignation’ Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” The movement many now refer to as “The Great Resignation” has continued with strong momentum in 2021, hitting mid-career professionals most heavily, as well as those in tech and healthcare fields. According to the... Read More

Advice, Careers, Communication, Leadership, Thought Leadership, Training, Wellness at work 5 Errors Managers Make When Providing Feedback To Employees Part of Kathy Caprino’s series “Today’s True Leadership” Much has been studied and written recently about the need for diversity, inclusion and equity in our workplaces and organizations, and leaders are beginning to understand in a deeper, more... Read More