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Why you get stuck in your career
Article 23/04/12 According to a survey of glassdoor, a career and jobs community, 60% of employees are either dissatisfied or just ‘ok’ at work. Only 40% say they are satisfied. Not very hopeful numbers fo
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Employee 2.0 versus previous generations
Yonda Poslavsky
Column 07/05/10 Marjolein wanted to work part-time, but has decided against it after elder colleagues gave her ‘the ins and outs on how hard their generation fought to be accepted in the workforce
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Dear Oscar: Women Have Stories, Too
Ticia Luengo Hendriks
Blog 02/03/12 Had to share Tara Sophia Mohr's Huffington Post blog about her discovery during the recent Oscars ceremony. Interestingly most viewers failed to notice this until she pointed it out to them so eloquen
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Video 24/10/11 Finally a woman on CCTV: Sonia Trocmé - le Page, co-founder and partner Global Private Equity is interviewed at the Capital Creation Conference in Monte-Carlo which was held from September 26th
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In the Tiara spotlight: Gabrielle Kalkwijk
Article 23/04/12 A lot of LEAP-members have enjoyed coaching sessions from Tiara. Recently these exceptional women's coaches have put Gabrielle Kalkwijk in the spotlight in their Tiara Spotlight series. Read all a
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Reputations: managing your most valuable asset
Karin Roeleveld
Column 08/10/09 A reputation is one of your most valuable corporate assets. And as the saying goes: It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Every week Karin Roelevel
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Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 19/02/12 After having read an article about Ionica Smeets, one of the two 'math-girls'. I got intrigued and bought the book 'Ik was altijd heel slecht in wiskunde', that she wrote together with the other math
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Professional women's networks not effective unless…..
Article 16/04/12 Professional women are “lukewarm” about the effectiveness of women’s networks at work. According to a new study of the Simmons School of Management the majority of middle to se
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Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 08/10/11 In September of this year I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Beijing to teach a class of twenty-two Chinese IT Architects, including five (5!!) women. I was very excited about this trip as it
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Article 02/04/12 There is a radio commercial in which somebody asks her boss: Could you tell me how long it will take till I am the manager? I’ve been here almost three months and I want to know what mortgage I
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Women in Technology - Let's keep the momentum NOW!
Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 05/06/11 In October 2009 in my first LEAP! blog I asked myself and you the question, what sort of networks are needed to include female technical professionals and help them progress. Do we need separate netwo
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5 Personality types needed for innovation
Article 26/03/12 Innovation is a prerequisite for corporate growth, but can it be achieved with Hangers-On and Controllers? Forbes Insights’ recent study, “Nurturing Europe’s Spirit of Enterprise: Ho
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It's time for Womeninit, is it?
Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 07/11/09 Being one of the nominees for the first awards for women-in-it, assigned by the network of the same name, I had plenty of opportunity to formulate my own thoughts about yet-again-a-women's-network and
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To Attract talent business culture should resonate emotional intelligence
Article 28/02/12 According to an article by Terry Murray people misinterpreted Darwin’s theory of evolution. It isn’t survival of the fittest, it is those that are most adaptive that survive. W
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Gain leadership experience on a non-profit board
Article 28/02/12 What options do you have when you’re feeling stuck at work? Ann Daly, the executive coach behind Women Advance, hears from a lot of women they can’t find a way to make the leap from
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Shell and LEAPwomen Energy mix
Article 06/02/12 LEAPwomen visited the Shell Technology Center and made her own Energy Scenario for the future. Enough clean energy is one of the key global issues for the next hundred years. The energy issue is compl
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Article 06/02/12 Women are very good at multi-tasking. We can read the paper while on the phone and clearing the table. Very practical sometimes. But at other times this centipede behavior might lead to lack of focus.
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7 tips to get on an international board
Article 09/01/12 Broaden your horizon by getting an international board seat. Companies are struggling to get their target-number of female board members. Supply seems to be unable to keep up with demand. This opens u
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Article 31/10/11 It seems that the hottest thing today in the market is Social Media. Anyone that has ever attended a 4 hour course on social media declares him or herself as social media expert. Judging by the amount
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Article 31/10/11 This month in Tiara, we are focusing on “alignment” and what it means to be in alignment with yourself, others, your job, and your life. Two very clear and common applications of “al
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Female leaders share advice at Wall Street Conference
Article 25/10/11 Last week, Deutsche Bank hosted its 17th annual Women on Wall Street conference at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. The event drew over 2,000 people, mainly women in the financial services indus
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Learning about effective leadership by rappelling waterfalls
Article 03/10/11 Are you a horizontal leader? Read Laura Berger’s interesting article on the parallels of waterfall rappelling and leadership and learn how to navigate the rock face of your career.
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Forbes says Lady Gaga is more powerful than Australia's prime minister.
Article 12/09/11 Always interesting to browse the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful Women and silently applaud women – some of whom you’ve never heard of but - who are CEO’s of big companies or
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5 tips for developing Gen Y Women into effective new leaders
Article 17/05/11 Gen Y women and men pursue life, not work/life balance, and they feel that work is an integral part of that life. Once you understand those workplace assumptions, you begin to understand h
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Too expensive? Don’t listen to that little voice
Article 28/03/11 When was the last time you told yourself, “No, it’s too expensive”? Was it a rational decision or are you a knee-jerk self-denier? Or the opposite: an automatic self-indulger? L
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‘War for talent’ topprioriteit CEO
Article 25/02/11 De ‘war for talent’ staat bovenaan de agenda van bestuurders. De beschikbaarheid van talent, kennis en kunde zien zij als één van de belangrijkste bedreigingen voor toekomsti
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Women in Davos: powerful & more connected… but what to wear?
Article 31/01/11 There is a lot of talk about the women in Davos. You might have missed the dilemma’s the few female participants face however: which can be summed up in one question: Heels or Boots?
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Ladies, Should You Ask For It?
Article 24/01/11 Quick – what was the first thing that came to your mind when you read the title of this post? What about “Gentleman, should you ask for it?” Would this change your respo
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What to say in difficult situations
Article 17/01/11 Would you like to know what to say—when you don't know what to say? If so, you're in luck, because this article explains how you can think on your feet and communicate more constructively with c
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The Cost of the Corporate Closet
Article 10/01/11 The United States has finally repealed its infamous military “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding gay men and women in uniform. Yet many LGBT (lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender
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Article 10/01/11 Tara Sophia Mohr coaches brilliant women, lots of them. Dedicated, talented, brilliant women.
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Challenge: building the ultimate LEAP-list!
Article 20/11/10 First off, my congratulations to Anette Stolvoort, senior IT Architect with IBM Netherlands! She was awarded Best Female ICT professional of the year by
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Karin Jironet: academic, spiritualist, leader
Article 27/05/10 The LEAP self-leadership event on 15 June – Get energised by the leader in you! - is approaching. Time for some sneak previews of the speakers. First off: Karin Jironet, who
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Success factors of innovative networks
Article 20/05/10 An initiator, contacts outside the organisation and an absolute minimum of consultations. That’s about all you need to solve hard-hitting organisation problems. Says Tjip de Jong in his
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Activating the future by building ‘Brand Me’
Article 08/05/10 The output generated at the LEAP leadership event in March shows that we need a distinctively different next generation business model if women are to lead the way. ELP’s Brand Me
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Creating the leadership landscape
Article 08/05/10 At the LEAP Leadership event powered by Philips, on 4 March keynote speaker
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Women Leaders: the hard truth about soft skills
Article 25/03/10 Collaboration, team-building, and inclusiveness are increasingly important as companies break down silos and remove layers of management, reports BusinessWeek.
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Article 08/03/10 Unilever, KPN, Rabobank and Ahold are the top four of the ten Dutch corporates in the
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Article 08/03/10 As we celebrate this 100th International Women’s Day, LEAP has a special reason to be in a celebrating mood: the
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WomeninIT awards for female role models in ICT
Article 07/10/09 On the 3rd of November 2009 WomeninIT will award 3 prices for female role models in ICT...
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Article 07/09/09 Want a better performing company? Develop a better performing board.Smart public and private companies worldwide are monitoring board performance through regular evaluation and self-
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