Greetings!
Greetings!
Women should nab their life partner in college. Women should learn code. Women should strive for the C-level jobs. This seems to be the year of women and "here's what you need to do to succeed as a leader."
In my work, I have the opportunity to get to know many remarkable women leaders -- entrepreneurs, executives, volunteers, educators, students and many more. When I inquire about significant choices that these women have made along their career path, I am amazed at their stories of courage, resilience, creativity, optimism and vision.
But what really stands out is that each of their paths is unique.
And the choices they made at various points on that journey - some small and others life changing -- vary dramatically by person. Whether it is getting an advanced degree, making a major career change, taking a year long sabbatical, going part-time, choosing to become a parent, launching a company or becoming a freelancer, these choices become the stepping stones along the path to creating a life and career of meaning and purpose. Isn't that what we should be empowering all women to do?
In our May issue, we will introduce a new feature called "Five Questions" in which we will ask an accomplished, inspiring women leader to share her story with us. We would love to hear if you have suggestions for the women leaders you'd like us to interview.
We can learn a great deal from other people's stories. Their stories can give us new perspective or inspire us. But we need to remember that it is their story, their choices and their life. We each have the choice to create our own life and career in a way that is fulfilling and meaningful for us alone.
Warmest regards,
Nancy Lamberton, Leadership Coach
Facilitator for Nebo's She Leads
Please send comments and suggestions to SheLeads@nebocompany.com. |
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SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY WEBINAR
Trying to do it all?
This Mother's Day, give yourself or another special mom the gift of peace of mind. Learn the proven strategies of successful working moms from leadership coach and Nebo CEO Kate Ebner.
Don't miss the chance to unlock the secrets of how to thrive while managing a busy work and home life. In this 75-minute webinar, you'll learn tips on deciding what to do yourself and what to delegate, how a support system (your "second team") can keep you covered no matter where you are, and much more.
Click HERE to sign up today!
Secrets of Working Moms: Proven Strategies to Make Life Work Better
May 21, 2013 4 pm EDT
Interactive webinar with Q&A
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She Leads: Resources and Inspiration
What skills will be required for leaders in 2020? By the way, that's only six and a half years away! The Institute For The Future published its research, "Future Work Skills 2020", predicting the skills which will be most in demand.
The top three are:
1. Sense-making - The ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed.
2. Social Intelligence - The ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions.
3. Novel & Adaptive Thinking - Proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based.
Which of these skills can you build on to advance in your career?
What Women Executives Can Do to Pave the Way for More Women at the Top
Andrew Ross Sorkin, Dealbook, The New York Times
 According to Irene Dorner, chief executive of HSBC, she looks back and sees now that by focusing on her own career, she missed an earlier opportunity to push harder to change the status quo in the male-dominated financial industry. She blames herself and other women in similar roles for the lack of women on Wall Street."The women at the top of organizations that I know will tell you that we think that we've made it because we were born the way we are and can play by these rules without feeling damaged by them," Ms. Dorner said. "Or, we've learned how to play by these rules and use them to our own advantage."
"I suspect that we were simply not very good role models," she added. "And there aren't enough of us to be visible so that people can work out how to do what we did."
Setting Your Career Vision
Talane Miedaner and Kate Ebner, Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life
Do you have a vision for your life and career -- and a plan to make it happen? Many people hesitate to develop powerful and inspiring visions for their work and their lives. Yet being forward-looking is one of the five top characteristics of the best leaders. Join host Kate Ebner and renowned Leadership and Life Coach, Talane Miedaner, author of Coach Yourself to a New Career, to discover how to create a career vision that will enable you to take charge of your career and your life.
Amy Friedman and Kate Ebner, Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life
A stellar career in television. Boundless work opportunities. A beautiful family at home. And a vision that puts it all in perspective. Amy Friedman is a visionary creative executive who has started her own company so that work can support life, not consume it. Join Host Kate Ebner to hear Amy Friedman, Nickelodeon's former Creative Director, share how she did it, what she's learned and how you can create a vision to guide your own life.
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Tips For Making Your Own Choices
- Build a vision for your life that is two or three years in the future
- Knowing where you are going will help you make choices - both big and small ones
- Ask yourself what you want to learn, contribute and achieve along the way
- Ask for what you want; communicate to others what you need from them in light of your purpose
- Be open to new possibilities and making adjustments along the path
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Fall She Leads Courses Announced!
Couldn't take our She Leads course this spring? No worries! She Leads: Proven Strategies to Inspire and Succeed is now open for fall registration. For dates and more information, click here!
Also coming this fall:
Nebo CEO and founder Kate Ebner will deliver Nebo's signature visioning process in a 6-part web class beginning September 19! Don't miss out on this opportunity to create a vision for your life and career and learn how to make it real. Sign up here!
We're also offering two great classes in October with registration opening soon- Smarter Not Harder: Sustainable Strategies for Managing Work and Life and Building Vital Connections: The Path to Your Success.
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Bite-size Book Review
by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay
Written by two savvy journalists, the subtitle of Womenomics is "1. Write your own rules for success 2. How to stop juggling and struggling and finally start living and working the way you really want." The book shares many stories from women who have redefined success in their own terms. The authors build the economic case for more flexibility and creativity in the workplace to accommodate the changing needs of women.
While encouraging institutional change, they also share valuable economic data to support the reader in building her own case to achieve professional liberation. This book advocates for all of us to slow down and ask if we could be living a more manageable, fulfilling life. As the book says, "Just because, let's be honest, life is short, and who doesn't want more fulfillment?"
To read more, click here.
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