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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. I would never discount all the progress we have made. Effective Negotiation. While all this might sound doable in theory, there is no doubt that in practice learning to find and consistently use your voice can be a challenge.

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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. Ask for a complimentary drink at lunch, or request a loyalty discount from your cable provider. 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. Persevere to build self-confidence.

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

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Negotiate your bills and purchases, and find extra money by making your social network work for you. Lapin likes to negotiate and once bought a floor-model couch for about 70 percent off. Department stores typically will discount 10 to 15 percent for a fabric snag or other minor imperfection, she says. Behold the new LBD.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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Make it explicit that you want to learn everything you can about them in short order,” Gage says. When a client comes to me and asks for a service outside my area of focus, I refer them to one of my partners, with whom I have a pre-negotiated referral fee. Then call up past business partners, employers and employees.” Win-win-win.

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Tarek El Moussa Will Teach You How to Flip a House Without Breaking the Bank

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A frugal flipper is someone that spends a lot of time shopping and negotiating deals, and getting discounts. I needed to learn what to do. The most valuable thing I learned over the last few years is, you are only as good as the people you hire. That’s something that I learned to accept and I also learned to overcome it.

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A True Partnership: Olympia Dukakis and Bonnie Low-Kramen

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And I learned. Wow, did I learn about show business, about being a working woman, about making hard choices, and about life. Neither of us dared to think our work together would last for 25 years which leads me to one of the first lessons I learned. Theatre is a collaborative art and I learned that so too, is the workplace.

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What Goes Around Comes Back Around

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I’ve learned so much about how to build my graphic design business in your posts here. What I want to ask you about is something I’ve never seen you write about—negotiating rates with vendors. And so my thinking about negotiating with vendors follows suit. William wrote to pick my brain. Walking away is always your right.