WITI Business
Tools to Minimize Workplace Conflict and Maximize Productivity
By Merle Rein
Once upon a time, there was a young woman, who, upon receiving her degree; got a job; worked hard and was respected by her co-workers and supervisors. She was acknowledged to be an excellent employee and within a few years, she was promoted to department manager. And just as all fairy tale endings, she was happy. Well, almost, because this wasn't a fairy tale and she found herself dealing with the very same situations that people in the workplace often experience.
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Three Key Strategies For Handling Price Negotiations For Your Consulting Services
By Tessa Stowe
Has a prospect for your consulting services ever said to you, "Your price is too high and I'd like a discount"? In this article I outline three key strategies for responding to this. One of these strategies even has the potential for you to make a larger sale of your consulting services than you originally anticipated. Curious?
First, giving discounts in the right way may well be the most appropriate thing to do. Conversely, giving a discount in the wrong way can not only lose you consulting business but could lose you all possible future consulting business from a potential client. Read on to see what I mean.
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WITI Careers
Mr. Mom Goes Back to Work
By Clarice Kennedy, WITI New York Leadership Council
Originally Published in The NY Enterprise Report, May 1, 2008
A business owner and mother of three shares her struggle to adapt to domestic duties after her stay-at-home husband returns to work
My husband, John, recently returned to work after spending the last 10 years raising our three sons and caring for my elderly and disabled father. He took his role very seriously and made it look very easy - food shopping, laundry, cooking (great cook!), dry cleaning, school trips, Little League, lacrosse practice, football practice... should I go on?
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Growing Within Your Company: Dragonflies and Pelicans
"I'd like to network with you." How do you feel when someone says that to you? After surveying a countless number of professionals in my seminars, I see the same reaction: they cringe. People don't like the concept of being "networked with." There's an implication of being used, of being put on the spot, of being asked for names when you're not sure that you want to share any. Although we all realize networking is important, we have an instinctive reaction against it when we're on the receiving end. How do we change that reaction so that both teams want to play ball, especially when you're the one who is seeking new information or relationships?
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WITI Health
No One Diet Works for Everyone
By Laura Brown
Diet and Nutrition expert Laura Brown discusses why no one diet works for everyone, and discusses how to create sustainable, lasting weight loss without dwelling on calories, carbs, fats, proteins, restrictions and lists of good and bad foods, in a way that is flexible, fun and free of denial and discipline.
There are many differing dietary theories on the market today. It doesn't require a very close inspection to notice the many contradictions between these theories and to wonder how it could be that the field of experts is so far apart on what works and what's healthy.
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Staying Healthy in the High Stress Job
By Laura Brown
Throughout the twenty-plus years I've spent as an IT and business consultant, I've seen and experienced firsthand the results of high stress work environments. They include burnout, health problems, stress-based eating, and weight gain, among other problems. Due to many years spent coping with on the job pressure, many busy professionals find themselves facing chronic disease and its precursors: high cholesterol, hypertension and insulin resistance.
So what can you do to stay healthy when you're in a busy, stressful job?
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WITI Leadership
Inner Authority: Your Personal GPS for Empowered Leadership
By Wendy Wallbridge
"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Winnie the Pooh's friend Christopher Robin
Authority has come to mean someone with the power to affect or influence others because of office or expertise. Power in business, politics and the world of work, to most people, implies competition, domination and is usually wielded by the person with the highest rank and largest paycheck.
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Leadership Skills: Building Social Capital That Connects Strategy and Passion (Part 2 of 3)
By Marian Cook
Studies have show that leaders and millionaires have strong networks. Networks are, however, difficult to build. There are so many worthy organizations and boards that we can become involved with. Where should you focus? Many choose to follow their passion, which is extraordinarily important. I propose that we insert a previous consideration: alignment with your business and personal goals. I believe the first step is to ensure that whatever group you become involved with will enable you to build relationships with people that yes, share your passion, but also can benefit your business. It doesn't make sense to me to spend time making the world a better place if you are not taking care of your own world at the same time: yourself and your family.
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WITI Personal Growth
How to Keep Your Strengths from Working Against You
Most people have heard the common wisdom that if you discover and align with your strengths you will be productive and successful. This belief comes with other corollaries including the following:
• You will excel by maximizing your strengths, not fixing your weaknesses; therefore you should spend your energy on building and honing your strengths
• It is ideal if you can create a role for yourself that draws on your strengths every day
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Denying the Truth
There is something I will bet that you do that you are not aware of - and it is seriously undermining your personal relationships. I call it "denying the truth" - and I don't mean lying to cover up your own thoughts or actions - I mean denying the truth of the other person.
We all live in our own version of reality and for us it represents our "truth." At the deepest recesses of our being we "just know" what we think, feel, see, hear, etc. and for us it is indeed our reality. Even though we might intellectually understand the concept that each of us has our own unique way of experiencing the world that is influenced by our biology, upbringing, experiences, education, etc. - nerveless at our deepest core level we are still deeply invested in what we know as our own reality or truth.
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WITI Technology
The Women's Tech Community Has Launched
By Dana Thorat
WITI members can have their voices heard! A major global technology company is actively recruiting new members into its private, online community of professional women to get insights from women about the technology products and services that really matter to them. This is a unique opportunity to interact and have a meaningful impact on the company's product directions and marketing efforts while also networking with your peers.
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Technology Products Historically Not Designed with Women in Mind
By Dana Thorat
Just over two years ago, WITI set out to explore women's usage and preferences for technology following a widely publicized 2003 Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) report that women represented about $55 billion of annual sales to the consumer electronics industry. Manufacturers and retailers had only just begun to realize that women, who were actively purchasing and influencing technology purchases for themselves, their households, and their companies, might be overlooked as a serious customer segment. As recently as 2006, companies still had little insight into the technology purchase drivers and attitudes of women that would enable them to jump on this potentially lucrative bandwagon.
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WITI Women
LOOKING FORWARD - How Can We Make 2008 a Great Year?
By Carolyn Leighton, Chairwoman/Founder WITI
I like starting the year looking forward, thinking about what I can do to make a difference for WITI members, partners and stakeholders. With a fresh slate, and a new year ahead, I always feel optimism and excitement about taking a fresh look at our goals, our vision and how we can play in a satisfying, meaningful way in the universe we continue to create
As always, I wanted to share my ideas and perceptions and ask you to write me yours, since it has always been your feedback, your perspectives, that have moved our WITI team to achieve greater heights and take on new challenges.
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Follow Your Heart, but Listen to Your Gut
By Sharon Elshaug
Have you ever been working on a project, with everything running fairly smoothly when you realized there was a little knot in your stomach? Some little nagging, aching feeling right in the pit?
So many of us - especially we women - are caught up in the pressures of meeting customer expectations, commitments to deadlines, and dealing with the stresses of a project that we fail to listen to that inner voice. I've had the experience described above on many occasions, but only recently learned to listen to it. I had to learn the hard way.
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