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

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Therefore, we learn not to speak up unless we are certain we are right and/or safe. And here’s why it helps: the next time a promotion or business opportunity that you would be right for comes along, you will have a team of people from all different facets of the organization who know not only your work ethic, but what your goals are.

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Want Better Opportunities? Learn to Connect with People in a Meaningful Way

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Learning how to connect with people in your community and organization is the key to so much of what you want. Exercise these muscles and you’ll fast-track your ability to sell, dialogue, negotiate and master a number of other essential business skills. Gain confidence and make it a goal to make meaningful connections.

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

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only to report back that he agreed with drivers’ complaints—“The whole experience was pretty clunky,” he said in the article. Here’s what other CEOs and leaders say there is to be learned from walking a day in employees’ shoes. His goal? “To If you are ready to listen, you’ll see the inefficiencies and opportunities.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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She leads workshops at conferences, is sought after by Fortune 500 companies and has facilitated high-level negotiations. My goal with being able to read facial expressions was never anything I had intended to use professionally,” Särnblad says. She learned to read people and read them well. Look for the nostril shadows.

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Your March Action Plan: 10 Easy Ways to Build Your Confidence

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Read: What I Learned From 30 Days of Positive Thinking 3. Revel in your newfound bravery and commit to negotiating once a week. Read: How I Learned to (at Least Try to) Get My Way 5. Take our quiz to learn whether you need to take it down a notch. After all, we never know what might be going on behind the scenes.

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These Are Nicole Lapin’s 6 Money Tips for Living Your Richest Life

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Write down your goals and turn them into an elevator pitch. Studies show that women who can clearly craft a narrative for themselves—and mentally embrace it—have a better chance of reaching those goals, Lapin says. State your goal for the current year, in the near future (years three and five), and further out (years seven and 10).

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A Manual for Dealing with Rejection

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These instances are often painful, but many moments of rejection are opportunities for learning, notes Susan Heathfield, an organizational development consultant since 1987. You can only accomplish these two tasks: learning and responding to the intended message. Each sales call is a new chapter in negotiation.