
How Women Rise will enable women at all stages of their career reach new heights and aid them in their quest to advance and successfully take on new challenges in the workplace, their communities, and the world!
Trying to be “wonderful” is also a trap. The desire to be wonderful in all circumstances—to be thoughtful and nice and make everyone around us feel good—is known among coaches as the “disease to please”.
Discover how minimizing language and shrinking body language undermines women's authority, and learn to elevate positive influence in organizations through proven strategies from How Women Rise.
In the workplace, disclosing too much can undermine your capacity to be seen as a trusted and discreet professional. How do you know how much is enough?
Do you cling to the past? Spend time reliving unfortunate things that have happened? Tell yourself that you need to rehash events because you’re trying to “figure things out” in order to understand exactly what went wrong?
This powerful little technique combats self-criticism, especially as you embark on your road to change, and it is laughably simple. We hope you’ll give it a try!
Engage in the oh well exercise, guided by gentle upbeat music, within the women's leadership masterclass.
One of women’s great strengths is their ability to notice a lot of things at once. Men on the other hand tend to concentrate more on one region.
Marshall Goldsmith talks about Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford. His facilitative leadership style, which works exceptionally well in today’s world. Marshall discusses one of Alan's core concepts “If they do not care, do not waste your time”
Marshall Goldsmith talks about the learnings he received from the great Father of Modern Management, Peter Drucker.
Claim your achievements with confidence and balance credit between yourself and others in leadership. When praised, respond with 'thank you' rather than deflecting to your team, collaborators, or boss.
Don't overvalue expertise; avoid spending all your time learning details, draining bandwidth for visibility and allies. Position yourself for the next role beyond your current job.
Put your career ahead of your job by balancing daily tasks with long-term goals, and beware excessive loyalty that keeps you from pursuing the next role or advancing your career.
Learn to stop minimizing by avoiding words like just or only and shrinking body language, and instead hold your space with confident communication, because minimizing never serves your career.
Develop a crisp, concise communication style by preparing your core idea and sharing it upfront. Avoid oversharing background; offer details only if people are interested, demonstrating readiness for leadership.
Learn to break the cycle of ruminating on past mistakes and stop being hard on yourself. Move forward instead of staying stuck, especially for women.
Focus on three behaviors from the list, teaching you to promote your contributions and frame them as neutral information to strengthen leadership and ensure credit.
Two monks debate helping a woman crossing a stream: one carries her, the other condemns him for breaking rules. The story urges leaving burdens at the stream and choosing compassion.
Learn to manage your reactions using the 'nobody's in the boat' metaphor, recognizing that others' actions reflect their histories and choosing empathy over blame.
How Women Rise will enable women at all stages of their career reach new heights and aid them in their quest to advance. Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers—men and women—to reach even greater heights. Again and again, they see that women face specific and different roadblocks from men as they advance in the workplace. In fact, the very habits that helped women early in their careers can hinder them as they move up. Simply put, what got you here won’t get you there . . . and you might not even realize your blind spots until it’s too late.