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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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Is Mentorship The Key To Career Advancement For Women?

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Female mentors can also train and equip younger women with skills that can help them negotiate a raise, ask for a well-deserved promotion, or better benefits. . 31% of respondents surveyed by HiBob in the US reported that their company has made a visible commitment to developing more women leaders in the past year. .

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The Right Way to Share Problems at Work With Your Boss 

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Practicing and role-playing can help you feel more confident. Just as you would negotiate a salary with comparisons, it is important to highlight data that could benefit the implementation of your idea. Saying something in your head is one thing, but when it comes time to say it out loud, many people’s nerves get the best of them.

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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

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Unlearning Silence by Elaine Lin Hering It’s a concept Harvard Law School lecturer Elaine Lin Hering , an expert in negotiation, influence and conflict management skills, explores in her upcoming book, Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully. A 2020 survey found that 17.5%

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Designing with Insight and Intention: Uncovering Behavioral and Functional Needs

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Nor are we big fans of using surveys to collect information about how workers do their work: surveys limit engagement, information sharing, and healthy debate and exploration. The optimal way to collect a team’s key collaboration activities is through transparent two-way dialogue and discussion-based focus groups, not surveys.

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Ready for a Flexible Work Arrangement as a Parent? Here’s How to Negotiate Better Hours

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Jones had to adapt, negotiating flexibility into her role to survive and thrive. In a recent survey of 1,700 workplace parents conducted by Werklabs and The Mom Project, researchers wrote, “There are few words in our contemporary workplace lexicon that are more divisive than ‘flexible.’ Then, she had her child.

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Five Barriers to Improving Employee Engagement

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And yet, one report after another still names employee engagement and workplace culture at the top of a CEO’s many challenges: • The Conference Board’s annual CEO survey lists six top challenges for CEOs today, five of them related to engaging and aligning talent. We can have observations, but the survey bears them out.

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