I met Diane DiResta when we were both speaking at a conference. I liked her right away. She’s a smart and savvy and an excellent communicator. I love what she says in this article, so I’m sharing an outline of it here. How many of them do you recognize as part of your communication [...]

Forbes.com posted this article by Mike Myatt last spring. Here are his “top ten secrets” with my quickie summaries:

1. Speak not with a forked tongue: Act like someone who deserves to be trusted

2. Get personal: Let people know who you are (see also my article on building rapport)

3. Get specific: Make [...]

“Savvy Sizzle: Designing the Life of Your Dreams”

Is your life SAVVY or sappy?

Does your life SIZZLE with Satisfaction or feel like it’s wilting away, day by day?

Author and Victory Coach Annmarie Kelly will show you:

The four MUST-KNOW lifestyles that either support or sabotage your success. Six MUST-HAVE victory skills The power [...]

“Savvy Sizzle: Designing the Life of Your Dreams”

Is your life SAVVY or sappy?

Does your life SIZZLE with Satisfaction or feel like it’s wilting away, day by day?

Author and Victory Coach Annmarie Kelly will show you:

The four MUST-KNOW lifestyles that either support or sabotage your success. Six MUST-HAVE victory skills The [...]

Join us in 2013 for the 6th annual Victorios Woman Contest We can’t wait to read about your victory. Here’s what to do: Read the Contest Rules Write your story Complete entry form at http://ow.ly/a6Qym Tell everyone you know to visit: contest entries [...]

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Flipping the Switch: From Pressure to Power

Change and stress are inevitable any time and anywhere. But in today’s economy, you have to do business with less and still juggle your personal responsibilities. The combination seems like a never-ending [...]

Flipping the Switch: From Pressure to Power

Change and stress are inevitable any time and anywhere. But in today’s economy, you have to do business with less and still juggle your personal responsibilities. The combination seems like a never-ending challenge that can wreak havoc on your health, work & relationships. But it doesn’t have [...]

Women’s History Month is the perfect time to focus on INFLUENCE, the March Victorious Woman theme. Women who make history often do so because they are influencing experts. They know how to create influence for themselves and they know how to influence other people and events.

Yet many women push influence away. If you [...]

“Savvy Sizzle: Designing the Life of Your Dreams”

Is your life SAVVY or sappy?

Does your life SIZZLE with Satisfaction or feel like it’s wilting away, day by day?

Author and Victory Coach Annmarie Kelly will show you:

The four MUST-KNOW lifestyles that either support or sabotage your success. Six MUST-HAVE victory skills The power [...]

Flipping the Switch: From Pressure to Power

Change and stress are inevitable any time and anywhere. But in today’s economy, you have to do business with less and still juggle your personal responsibilities. The combination seems like a never-ending challenge that can wreak havoc on your health, work & relationships. But it doesn’t have [...]

Golden Globes, People’s Choice, the Oscars. It’s the season for all the Hollywood movie awards ceremonies where actors are chosen as the “best” for their role in a movie. I was watching one last week and I started thinking about one of my favorite movies, The Holiday. Do you remember it?

The premise of [...]

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Have you been thinking “Is this all there is?” DO you want MORE from life?

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Power Tool For Getting the Life You Want Make 2013 Your Best Year Yet! How to Use Vision Boards to Create the Life of Your Dreams

You’ve heard about the Law of Attraction for creating the life you want. Now it’s time to get busy [...]

Yes, you can positively change your life.

Have you reached that point where you look around and ask “Is this all there is?” Do you feel overworked, under-appreciated and tired of accommodating every one else’s goals instead of your own? Are ready to live [...]

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Women make most of the buying decisions, from consumer goods to new cars and new homes. And, in North America, women over fifty own over 75% of the financial wealth. So why are women still are in small numbers among top executives, on corporate boards and in [...]

Event Date: January 11 Event Cost: $37.00

The whole year is ahead of you. It’s a blank slate on which you can write anything you desire. What do you want? What do you want to do?

In thiswebinar, Annmarie Kelly will take you, step-by-step through the process for setting goals [...]

Event Date: December 28 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pmEST Format: “Lunch and Learn” Cost: FREE! But registration is required.

Wondering about those New Year’s Resolutions? Do you figure “why bother” because all you do is make them and break them?

Join Annmarie Kelly as she guides you through a simple process for setting goals that [...]

What’s a woman to do? If she makes a bad choice or gets thrown one of life’s curveballs, is she forever doomed?

Author Annmarie Kelly says “NO!” and proves it with compelling real life stories of women who faced and overcame seemingly overwhelming life challenges. This powerfully moving book overflows with intelligence, understanding, emotion [...]

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Recently nineteen year old Julie Zeilinger wrote a guest post for Forbes.com, titled: “Why Millennial Woman Don’t Want to Lead”. In it, while Zeilinger acknowledges that young women don’t have many of the sexism that the 1950′s woman faced, but also says that, “many young women today fail to lead because of the [...]

The New Year is just around the corner. If you missed the Victorious Woman article about envisioning a positive future, read it here.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion. -  Oprah Winfrey

CONGRATULATIONS!

Not everyone woman can start her own business, and YOU DID IT! Good for you!

Here are a few interesting stats about women in business:

The number of women-owned companies with 100 or more employees has increased at nearly twice the growth rate of all other companies The vast majority (83%) of women [...]

Did you just get back from yet another Monday morning meeting?

When I was the director and manager of a company’s corporate university, every Monday morning I had a meeting with the company’s CEO and 1st and 2nd VPs. The meetings were part reporting and part hot seat, both of which led to a [...]

Rice and Moore Open Doors for Women

For many years the Augusta National Golf Club refused to admit women into their club. But that’s changed now. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and financial powerhouse Darla Moore have been invited to join.

It’s about time!

I’m not a golfer and don’t like everything gender-inclusive [...]

There are two types of people in the world: the ones who add value and the ones who detract from or undermine value. In other words, some people are radiators and some are drains. Which one are you?

I’m going to presume you are the kind of person who adds value…but do you know [...]

Interesting Article!

If you are wondering what you need to do differently, this article by Fast Company’s Lydia Dishman give you a few ideas in “Killer Career Advice From Women Who Lead By Example”:

I like Linda Chavez-Thompson’s tip: “Don’t be Afraid to Scrap”. It seems to address a problem many women in the [...]

Persistence is finding what isn’t working and not doing it anymore. But, as Seth Godin says (see the Secret to Persistence), it’s about focusing on the goal and changing what you are doing to achieve it. But change, even when you know it has to happen, isn’t easy. That’s where your victory comes into [...]

If you have that “beating my head against the wall” feeling I talked about in this month’s first blog (http://victoriouswoman.com/2012/06/01/women-leaders-persistence/), then you need to do something different. And if you agree with Seth Godin’s definition of persistence, you need to think something different.

Here are two things that are absolute facts:

If you give [...]

Madeleine Albright was the first woman US Secretary of State. While in Philly promoting her new book, Prague Winter, she talked briefly about her first days as Madame Secretary (at age 59) and her uphill climb for acceptance.  This interview with Pat Ciarrocchi is worth a look: Madeleine Albright

You, Inc.

What makes You, Inc. by Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith a recommended book?

One of the best things about You Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself is that each chapter is really short. It’s like reading a blog entry. You can read it on the train, waiting in a line, [...]

The Gift of Fear The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence/Gavin De Becker

This should be required reading for every woman.

Gavin De Becker learned how to be on the lookout for trouble through a difficult childhood. He uses what he learned then and expanded his knowledge to help [...]

Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Horning Without Blowing It

In Brag! Peggy Klaus shows you how to talk about yourself by telling stories.

She uses lots of examples for different situations, including what to do…if you are an introvert, during job interviews, to describe or sell your small business [...]

Public speaking is the Number One fear for many people. But in this day and age, in spite of all the benefits of social media, how you present yourself in person can make or break your career. Whether it’s during a job interview, a department meeting or a presentation to your whole company or [...]

Why Wilson Phillips Got in Bed with Perez Hilton

On a recent chapter of their reality show, Wilson Phillips was talking passionately about their comeback. They said one of the big issues was getting enough visibility. So that day they were being interviewed by Perez Hilton – in bed. Of course, the bedroom was [...]

Basic Black

Cathie Black talks about Power, Passion, Attitude, Leadership and more – all the stuff the makes a woman successful in life and in business. She heads Hearst Magazines, publishers of top magazines like O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook. The book is well-written, is a fairly [...]

You’re getting ready for a meeting. Somehow, you always seem to freeze up, have a hard time talking and don’t get your point across. As a woman who has been there, I’ve learned a lot things about dealing with ineffective communication and nervousness in the workplace. Here are a few things you can do [...]

We don’t try to push others in a particular direction; we try to pull them toward our ideas. Push takes muscle. Pull takes influence. Lois Frankel

When Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman on the Supreme Court, I barely noticed anything political. But that day I paid attention to the news! Though she served on the Supreme Court for twenty-five years, Justice O’Connor still thinks of herself as a cowgirl; she doesn’t miss an opportunity to talk about her [...]

Women are usually pretty good at telling stories, just not usually about themselves – at least not in ways that put them in the best light. STOP IT!

In one of my favorite books, BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Horn Without Blowing It, author Peggy Klaus tells her readers to write down stories [...]

When I was the Education Manager for a corporate university, the company VP used to say “When people know you and like you, they find a way to do business with you.” There’s truth to that, but it doesn’t tell the whole story – at least not for women. If it did, women would [...]

How are you going to influence anyone to take a chance on you if you can’t convince yourself? Confidence in yourself and your abilities gives people a sense of assurance that, in fact, you DO know what you are talking about. If you don’t feel confident, that great suggestion you have is going to [...]

Too many people have way too high an opinion of their skillset. I hear this complaint from Human Resources, management, team leaders in and customers of corporations and small businesses.

In my spouse’s practice, he often interviews people who think they are top-notch and he’d be lucky to have him or her. And maybe [...]

For the SmartWoman@Work, the Victorious Woman Project will be giving you ideas for creating more influence in your life.

Read more about Influence (this month’s theme) at http://bit.ly/xpHEVp and check back each week for tips for creating influence in the workplace.

If you have questions about creating influence in the workplace, or ideas [...]

I once heard the great Earl Nightingale talk about how we are all creatures of habit. There is something about a habit that gives us comfort. I find a cup of tea comforting at the end of a work day – and no ordinary cup of tea. I like Earl Gray or Chai Spice [...]

Women are often encouraged to forgo their own needs so that someone else can receive them. There is something to be said for being a little sacrificing, but when you treat everyone else better than you treat yourself, you are out of balance and suffering from something I call overcare. And it’ll kill you – one [...]

One of the biggest mistakes women make, and one that you have total power to change, is buying into your socialization.

Women are socialized differently than men. You surely know that an ambitious, career-focused man is thought of as a go-getter and leader while a woman who has the same qualities is thought of [...]

In the last post I asked you to day dream about the changes. This time my challenge to you is to pick a daydream, “paint” a mental picture of it and put yourself in the picture. Have fun with it, but pay attention to how you have to be different to be in the picture.

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If you knew you couldn’t fail, and asking was all you had to do to get something that would make your life better, what would you want?

Do you dream about a promotion, being a top executive in your company, having a better job in another company or owning your own business? Or [...]

One of my mentors, Robbie Motter, says that success is all about SHOWING UP. I think she’s right.

But what do you do when you show up? Here’s a tip from Barbara Bush: “You don’t just “luck into” things. You build step-by-step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.”

This is a great time of year to [...]

Studies have shown that two-thirds of your success depends on your emotional competence. If you are reinventing your career/business, YOU INC) so that you will be more successful in the New Year, you have to marry your experience and expertise with emotional competence.

Over the years I’ve watched so many really smart women with a [...]

This tips article was posted last month on Daily Venus Diva.

I liked it enough to share it with you; the tips will help you with your YOU INC business planning.

http://bit.ly/s8Yd0J.

Let me know what you think.

Get a Jumpstart on your New Year’s Resolutions!

How to Reinvent Your Career

This month we’re going to connect December’s Victorious Woman of Emotional Intelligence to your career goals for the New Year. You can read about the basics of Emotional Intelligence in my article, EI: The Missing Link (post link).

For you, [...]

I just returned from a wonderful day in the Big Apple where I attended the NAFE Women of Excellence Award breakfast. Carol Evans, CEO of NAFE and President of Working Mother Media, was there and, about the Women of Excellence, emphasized its purpose, “Women standing up for women–that is what this award is all [...]

See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work

When Lois Frankel explained how she chose the women she wove into the content of See Jane Lead, she said, “…if a woman didn’t pass my ‘very scientific’ beer test – Would I enjoy sitting down and having a beer with her – [...]

Designed as a companion to Victorious Woman, Victory By Design gives you a step-by-step process for examining your life, what you want and what you need to do to BE MORE of who you really are, DO MORE that satisfies your soul and HAVE MORE of the life of your dreams. only $14.95

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This book has been described by some women as a cross between inspirational and self-help and by others as a “blueprint for life”.

First, there are the stories: Ten of the eleven Victorious Woman chapters tell the stories of women – probably just like you – who got into and out of [...]

When I interviewed her for Victorious Woman, successful business owner Alisa Lippincott Morkides said, “We can learn a lot from men.” When she said it, I bristled. I was writing a book about women overcoming challenges on their own. I really didn’t want to hear about learning “men tricks” for success.

But then I [...]

Not everyone woman can start her own business, and YOU DID IT! Good for you!!

Now that you’ve gotten it started, let’s talk about how it will end. If you haven’t thought about your “end game” you’re making a mistake. Most SmartWoman@Work entrepreneurs will tell you that is the one thing they wished they’d [...]

While many women complain that they don’t get ahead in the workplace because of the proverbial glass ceiling, I’ve learned that the thing that inhibits and limits women the most is their personal glass ceiling. It’s the one build when you talk about yourself negatively (“that was dumb, but that’s me” or “I’ve always [...]

Emotional Competence focuses on your ability to eliminate the junk floating around in your own head so you can succeed at a task, project or goal.

While many women complain that they don’t get ahead in the workplace because of the proverbial glass ceiling. But I’ve learned that the one that inhibits women the most [...]

Energy

Summertime and the living is easy…that’s how most of us feel, isn’t it? You probably kick back a little, downshift into vacation mode and give yourself some much needed rest and relaxation. This is also the time when you can give yourself a much needed energy boost.

ENERGY means different things to different people. [...]

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw

Annmarie’s take on this:

Sometimes we forget that communication is a two-way street. It includes: sender->message->receiver…who then responds: receiver->message->sender

Unless you have both ends, you don’t have communication. You aren’t connecting. In our techno-world, it’s like sending an [...]

Today is the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day (IWD). I’m honored to be the recipient of an IWD Service Award, for which I was nominated by mentor Robbie Motter. If you are one of the fortunate women to be in a city where there are IWD celebrations, you are sure to have a [...]

Catalyst just published a new survey about women in executive positions. It includes 497 of the Fortune 500 companies. Among the companies, 14.4% of the executive officers were women – based on the SEC proxy designation of “executive management” – and 15.7% of the board members were women.

Available for download from Catalyst: Read More...