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Finding Your Voice: Advocating and Negotiating for Yourself as a Woman in the Workplace

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I spoke to a mentor about how I was feeling, and his words of wisdom have remained with me ever since. Effective Negotiation. Chester Karris: “ In business as in life, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.”. The art of negotiation is a powerful skill to master in your career.

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The Gender Pay Gap: 3 Steps to Work Toward Workplace Parity

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For years, we’ve been told the reason the gender pay gap exists is that women don’t negotiate or advocate for themselves. Why do companies and managers insist on making compensation dependent on someone’s self-confidence level or negotiating skills when, in most cases, neither has anything to do with their job and job performance?

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Soft Skills Training: 8 Soft Skills Courses to Elevate Your Career

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You could even ask someone with the skills you seek to mentor you and provide regular feedback and advice. Negotiation Mastery Negotiation skills aren’t just for sales teams. A good negotiator can help get buy-in from business stakeholders for projects or improve their livelihood through salary negotiations.

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A Talented Woman Crafting Careers for Women

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The firm is focused on the goal of crafting careers for female digital influencers that go beyond posts on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, all the way to brand sponsorships, advertising partnerships, multimedia deals and proprietary brand creation. My boss, Virginia, she was my first woman mentor. And I learned a lot about contracts.

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Have Your Best Year Yet with This Simple Tool

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We have to be intentional with our goals, actions and strategies. A mentor once asked me to write down the most money I’ve ever made in a year. But my mentor challenged me, asking, “Who do you have to become and what do you have to start thinking about in order to become the person who makes that much money in a month?”.

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

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Richard Branson negotiated for a year and a half to get Boeing to finally agree he could buy all these planes, but only if after a year and a half, he didn’t make it. Robbins says the ability to articulate ideas and negotiate is a key factor in achieving success. Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart.”

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What 3 CEOs Learned After Spending a Day in Their Employees’ Shoes

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Rim runs a consulting service for families who have kids hoping to get an acceptance letter to a top school, and though he has always been “deeply involved” with his lead mentors, he recently became a full-time mentor for the day. His goal? “To

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