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Advancing Women in Tech: Executive Nancy Wang’s Forward-Thinking Nonprofit

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She also founded, in 2016, a nonprofit membership organization , Advancing Women in Tech, which “accelerates careers and addresses diversity gaps in leadership.” The organization, for which she now serves as board chair, has helped more than 40,000 people to date via mentoring and training materials delivered via Coursera.

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Change Is Hard—Here’s How to Influence People to Get on the Same Page

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Skills or motivation? As my fellow PeopleResults partner Kirsten Jordan always says: “Skills + Motivation = Behavior Change.”. But he is staying up late reworking problems and the math just isn’t making sense to him. Let’s look at skills and motivation a bit more. Is a lack of skills preventing change?

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. How Will You Show Up? , These incredible women also bring fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to the forefront. Cornish is the co-author of It’s Work!

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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My mentor, Earl Shoaff, got me started on mine. Here’s a mindset to guide you as you begin: Your library needs to show that you’re a serious student of life, health, spirituality, culture, uniqueness, sophistication, economics, prosperity, productivity, sales, management, skills and values of all kinds. Think and Grow Rich.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

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When you’re in charge, your opinion simply takes up more space than that of others, whether you intend it to or not. Describing your team as a family also sets up a very confusing mixed reality because you can’t fire a member of your family, but you absolutely have to be able to fire an employee who isn’t pulling their weight.

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Choosing Excellence Every Day

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I absolutely loved Joan Burge’s article, Core Admin Skills Always Need Improving ! The principle she discussed of renewing and improving core skills is closely related to what Steven Covey calls “Sharpening the Saw”: the deliberate improvement of our tools to help us become more effective. Lay the Foundation.

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Lots of new speakers added to the Virtual Summit

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Robyn runs the popular The Art of Minute Taking course at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, where it was the top Professional and Executive Development course for 2015 and 2016.She Minute taking is a much sought after skill in organisations. VACT Limited were named as the “The Best VA Training Provider – 2016”.

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