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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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How Taking Charge of Your Emotions Can Help You Find Success in Business

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is “the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, as well as recognize and influence the emotions of those around you,” according to a Harvard Business School article. Financier Warren Buffet shared a valuable piece of advice from a mentor concerning handling emotions in Gillian Zoe Segal’s book Getting There: A Book of Mentors.

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Trust Me on This: Building a Business Clients Love

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The subject is so important, I decided I needed to write this article on it as well. Why Trust Is Non-Negotiable Imagine going on a first date and your companion spends the entire time on their phone. And if you’re not subscribed to my newsletter yet, what are you waiting for?

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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. So, he joined five calls and completed in-depth research to prepare for and follow up on those sessions, which involved mentoring prospective college students from around the world. His goal? “To

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Niké Ojekunle Got Scammed. Now She’s Helping Others Avoid the Same Fate By Advocating for Financial Literacy

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As her follower count grew, she also negotiated more and more sponsorship deals for herself, using her business savvy and entrepreneurial mindset to ink deals with fashion and beauty brands. Several of them shared their experience in an article in The New York Times titled, “ New Fame, Age-Old Exploitation.”

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Magic Johnson’s Fast Break Into Business

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The second thing I learned is that if you want someone to be your mentor , you better be ready to listen and be humbled,” Johnson says. To get the business off the ground, he decided to attend a major sporting goods convention and negotiate for products he’d sell at the stores. “I I always showed enthusiasm.”

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5 Habits to Help You Handle Rejection Gracefully

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The best thing you can do when you’re afraid is to take a chance, be bold and tell a friend or mentor exactly what your biggest fears are. During a negotiation: Their arms are folded, their iPhone is more intriguing than your stories, and they suddenly need to leave for an urgent meeting. It sounds like an endless sea of no’s.