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Is she a value threat to you? Keep her out
Article 15/05/12 A new study from Washington University in St. Louis revealed that women in high profile management roles often do not support other qualified female candidates as potential colleagues. The author, Mic
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Persoonlijke presentatie Carla Smits-Nusteling: authentiek en professioneel
Farah Nobbe
Column 25/07/11 Tijdens het LEAP event van 6 juni jongstleden sprak KPN CFO Carla Smits-Nusteling een welkomstwoord uit. Hierin vertelde ze haar persoonlijke verhaal over haar eigen benoeming als CFO. Toen ze het heu
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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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Oproep Kroes verzandt in gedateerd gesprek bij Pauw&Witteman
Video 15/03/12 Europees Commissaris Neelie Kroes (Digitale Agenda) roept vrouwen op een digitale revolutie te beginnen. Dat deed zij op de Internationale Vrouwendag, 8 maart j.l. Bij Pauw & Witteman lichtt
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Internet should be made more accessible and secure
Proudly 16/01/10 As the largest internet brand KPN has a responsibility to society. This is the reason why in the last few months Wenka Booy (35) has developed for KPN a vision in the realm of internet and Corporat
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Charlene Li on Open Leadership
Http://www.briansolis.com/2010/10/revolution-episode-4-charlene-li-on-open-leadership/
Column 22/10/10 "Open Leadership: how Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead", door Charlene Li.
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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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The secret structure of great talks
Video 05/03/12 While they might have different messages, this talk by Nancy Duarte for TEDx East will show you that great speeches all have something in common that makes them, well, great. Watch and listen to find
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Why Vulnerability Can Be Your Biggest Strength
Article 15/05/12 In her executive coaching practice, Henna Inam meets a lot of strong and smart women leaders whose success has come from always proving that they are smarter and more competent than those
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Betsy Sobiech
Column 01/10/10 We all know that being clear on what you want - your goals, your outcomes, your true desires– is important in making progress, achieving goals, and living a life that is fulfilling on
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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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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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Putting a lit on greenhouse gas
Proudly 05/09/09 Margriet Kuijper, Shell Manager of Carbon Capture and Storage Projects and Studies, talks about the CCS project at Barendrecht, in the Netherlands, and addresses local concerns.
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Is feedback hard to swallow for women?
Yonda Poslavsky
Column 02/09/10 Women, in my experience, find it harder to deal with criticism or feedback as it is: something related to what they’ve done and not who they are. The question was brought to my att
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Social Media: heeft iedereen iets te bieden.
Corrine Petrus | Internet & ICT specialist
Blog 12/07/11 Als we naar Amerika kijken, daar blijkt dat meer dan 40% van de ondernemers gebruik maakt van LinkedIn in zijn/haar onderneming. Via Twitter gaan wekelijks minstens 1 miljard tweets de lucht in, en F
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In the spotlight: Liesbeth van de Garde, Senior policy advisor HRM, NWO
Video 27/06/11 LEAP is about connecting and inspiring. Watch this film in which Liesbeth van de Garde shares her life motto with us! It will most certainly inspire you and make you proud of her courage to be t
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Are you MOM ENOUGH to do this?
Article 14/05/12 Are you MOM ENOUGH? Weird question, but Time would like to know. To be able to answer it however, you would first have to know what enough is. Apparently breast feeding your child till it
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Alberta Opoku
Column 05/08/10 Viva, a Dutch weekly, is soon to publish its annual ‘Viva 400’, listing the 400 most successful women of the moment aged 38 and younger. Did you get an exceptional promotion, made
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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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Dream University: turn passion into profit
Article 08/05/12 In our careers, dreaming is serious business and the driving force for transformation. Without vision companies fail, and without our personal vision, our dreams, our lives can become mundane, redunda
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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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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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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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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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Are Men the Real Winners with the Rise of Female Breadwinners?
Article 09/04/12 Female breadwinning is often seen as primarily benefitting women. We think of the wins for her – negotiating power in the relationship, freedom to leave a potentially bad match and the pro
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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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Lead by example: work-life balance for your team
Article 02/04/12 Almost half of adults aged 16 and over in Great Britain recently reported a ‘relatively low’ satisfaction with their work-life balance, according to findings from the Office for National S
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Sponsor or Mentor? You need both
Article 26/03/12 Some thought leaders argue that sponsorship is more of a semantic difference than a practical one when compared with traditional mentorship. Yet many diversity experts emphasize that the roles are qui
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The best advice top execs ever got
Article 19/03/12 No one can make it alone. Even the most successful leaders say they became who they are today because they took advice from people they trusted. Their moms, dads and former bosses. Aimee Groth and Kim
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Article 19/03/12 Navigating office politics can be tricky – but there are tactics women can employ to avoid playing games and climb the corporate ladder successfully and graciously. Here are five pieces of advic
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Portrait Suites Rome: A Salvatore Ferragamo Experience
Article 15/03/12 Salvatore Ferragamo conquered the world with his unique hand-made footwear. Ferragamo died at the age of 62 in 1960, but his name and his empire of luxury goods (bags, silk accessories, watches, perfu
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Keywords in Résumé Lead to Interviews
Article 15/03/12 Eighty percent of all submitted résumés (and 100 percent of résumés sent to Fortune 1000 companies) get scanned by software commonly known as an applicant-tracking system (
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7 steps to make difficult conversations easier
Article 05/03/12 Coach Henna Inam shared some very useful tips that will make a difficult conversation easier in a recent blog for theglasshammer. Many situations you find yourself in call for conservations to be had.
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Sponsors wear your T-shirt in a meeting you're not in
Article 28/02/12 Frieda Klotz, journalist, author and blogger for Forbes.com spoke to Nicky Gilmour — the founder of The Glass Hammer – about the usefulness of mentoring, and she explained why one ve
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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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LEAPWebinar with Annet Aris: What you need to know about the impact of digitization
Article 20/02/12 Last Wednesday LEAPmembers got the unique chance to sit in a digital INSEAD classroom and enjoy a state of the art presentation by professor Annet Aris. In this first early morning LEAPwebinar she add
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Where the mud sticks: reputation management and public trust
Article 20/02/12 A really good reputation, honestly earned and properly maintained, simply cannot be ruined overnight by unsubstantiated gossip, hate mail or mischievous accusations. Serious and lasting reputational d
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Beware of the paradox of meritocracy
Article 20/02/12 In an interesting article on the theglasshammer.com Curt Rice explains why it is important to base gender diversity programmes on knowledge instead of ideas and anecdotes. If you think gen
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Make your own branding statement!
Article 13/02/12 If people ask you what you do, will they understand what you say? Or do you just assume they will if you state your job title and company name? In today’s world you need to specialise. To stand
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Emotion Analytics: The Missing Ingredient in Risk Management
Article 13/02/12 We have all heard it a thousand times: “take the emotion out of it.” We have heard it from our bosses, our friends, and certainly from our financial advisors. Yet as far as investments go,
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Corporate talent programs fall short
Article 06/02/12 Despite a new wave of uncertainty, many leading companies are pressing forward and reshaping their talent strategies. Many executives foresee leadership shortages in the year ahead and are looking at
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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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From VP tot Boss of Me: Rethinking career choices
Article 30/01/12 After years of paying dues to become a senior executive, partner, or board member in their respective industries, an increasing number are deciding that it’s not what they really want after all.
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Black and white or shades of grey? Decide!
Article 19/01/12 An experiment by researchers at the University of Warwick has found evidence that men tend to make black-or-white judgements when women are more prone to see shades of grey in choices and decisions. T
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28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life
Article 17/01/12 Life is not complicated. We are complicated. When we stop doing the wrong things and start doing the right things, life is simple. On the website Marc and Angel Hack life, dedicated to &ls
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Article 16/01/12 Why is passion so important for leaders? Because it’s a lot easier to get people tot follow you when they believe in you en can share your enthusiasm.
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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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Famous women and their handbags
Article 09/01/12 Handbags are not only functional, as we all know. Depending on its style, colour, brand and size, it can be a status-statement or a pronouncement of ‘normalness’ . And you can do more with
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Article 19/12/11 We found this quote, attributed to Patrick Overton on thinkexist.com ...
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5 Things you should stop doing in 2012
Article 19/12/11 Dorie Clark went on holiday for a month and thought about what’s actually important to her professional career and which make-work activities merely provide the illusion of progress. Here are 5
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To cry or not to cry? Votes for or against weepy (fe)male politicians
Article 12/12/11 Elsa Fornero, Italian's minister of Welfare, recently couldn't hold herself back . She broke into tears when explaining the harsh measures Italy had to approve to relieve its debt. Genui
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Six career killing Facebook mistakes your friends might make
Article 12/12/11 With more than 400 million active visitors, Facebook is arguably the most popular social networking site. And many users also use it as a professional networking tool. In fact, surveys suggest that ap
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Facing hurdles in the boardroom
Article 05/12/11 When we read about women in the boardroom, it is often about their absence rather than their presence. Facing the challenges to even get a board seat, we hear little about the obstacles that wom
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Mine's Bigger than Yours: Challenges of Being a Female Breadwinner
Article 05/12/11 Shhhh… The woman in the office next to you, your high-flying sister, perhaps even you… is earning more than her male partner. More and more women do, yet it’s a secret we don&rsquo
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Kwestie van kijken: divers talent beter in beeld
Article 05/12/11 Op 2 december j.l. werd de nieuwe publicatie van Opportunity in Bedrijf, Kwestie van Kijken: vrouwelijk en bicultureel talent beter in beeld, gepresenteerd.
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Article 28/11/11 Does your company have employees who quit because they are not being treated well by management? The definition of a good boss has changed drastically over time. Previously, a boss who provided satisf
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Working moms feel guilty, stay-at-home moms too
Article 28/11/11 The Working Mother Research Institute recently completed a new survey examining what women are choosing when it comes to work and life. And, crucially, why? One of the more surprising results is that
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Inclined to always say Yes? 5 reasons to say No
Article 21/11/11 Very often, women try hard to please everybody, from bosses to clients, but it’s not always the most productive way to get ahead in your career. Saying “no” can actually open up oppo
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10 Things Baby Boomers Won't Tell you
Article 21/11/11 The aging Me Generation is still putting itself first, according to an article by Catey Hill for smartmoney.com. You a baby boomer? Then this might hurt. Or are you the offspring of baby boomer-parent
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5 Tips on finding the right mentor
Article 21/11/11 People who have a sponsor behind them are more likely to ask their boss for a “stretch” assignment and are more likely to ask for raises than those without one. But landing the right perso
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Strategies for Self-Promotion without the Backlash
Article 15/11/11 The best strategy to get a raise is to make your achievements known around the office. Seems simple enough, right? Let your co-workers know about a deal that went your way. Be sure to get credit for i
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10 secrets of successful leaders
Article 07/11/11 Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a manager, the skills and talents necessary to guide your team in the right direction can be simple. Anyone with the determination can develop them. Here’
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5 Tips to remember next time you negotiate a raise
Article 07/11/11 Negotiating for higher compensation can be stressful even under the best of circumstances. But in times of economic uncertainty, broaching the subject of a raise from your employer can feel even more
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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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How to move forward in spite of Fear
Article 25/10/11 Tara Sophia Mohr is not a person to be afraid of appearing in front of an audience. However, she nearly cancelled her appearance on the popular Today Show out of fear to be not good enough. Sounds fam
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Four ways women unintentionally stunt their careers
Article 24/10/11 Low self-confidence stunt the careers of women. With small adjustments in how they think and act can women improve not only how confident they seem, but how confident they feel. This is the es
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7 tips for leadership success - for introverts
Article 17/10/11 Are you an introvert? That’s good. In these days of uncertainty and a fast changing world, introverts have a good chance of succeeding. Just understand your strengths and use them to your advant
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What happens if your sponsor leaves the company?
Article 10/10/11 There has been a lot of attention for the importance of sponsorship for women. Why you need one, how to be one, find one…But one question remains: What if you lose her? Melissa Anderson has som
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CEO me!, handboek voor ambitieuze vrouwen -- en mannen
Article 10/10/11 ‘Topvrouwen zijn hot. Er worden beleidsboeken over volgeschreven, stichtingen voor opgericht, charters voor ondertekend, prinsessen met de haren bij gesleept en subsidiepotten opengetrokken voor
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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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Speak up dear! 10 tips voor sprekende vrouwen
Article 03/10/11 Vrouwen in leidinggevende posities hebben een hoge status nodig om serieus genomen te worden, maar moeten zich gelijktijdig vrouwelijk gedragen om aantrekkelijk te zijn. En dat terwijl vrouwelijk gedr
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Tips from McKinsey: Changing companies' minds about women
Article 26/09/11 Your company has trouble retaining promising women or promoting them into top jobs. Structural changes, such as “flextime,” aren’t helping enough; they do little to add
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Surfing for fun during work increases productivity
Article 17/09/11 We’ve all been there before. It’s Friday. The day is dragging on. You’ve got a massive amount of work staring at you between now and dinner. The weather outside is gorgeous. But&hell
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Article 17/09/11 Ever heard of the word Womance? Christine Jacobs, experienced corporate executive and co-founder of Leading Women learned it recently and finds it a wonderful word. In her blog for leading wome
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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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Funny Simple High Performance model
Article 12/09/11 We found this simple high performance model, made up by Dan McCarthy on his website www.greatleadershipbydan.com.
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Corporate tweets en die van medewerkers vullen elkaar aan
Article 12/09/11 Twitterende medewerkers kunnen het profiel van een bedrijf versterken. Ondernemingen die een juiste mix weten te vinden tussen hun corporate twitteraccount én de twitter-inspanningen van hun we
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Study Shows Sponsorship is Key to Women's Success
Article 05/09/11 For women especially, it takes more than meeting expectations to get noticed in the workplace. Female employees who work hard and play by the rules are often overlooked when it comes to plum assignmen
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What HR Managers Never Tell You
Article 29/08/11 Sometimes, what you don’t know about HR Managers – because they never tell you – might hurt you. We read through several lists of tricks and tips and made a selection for those
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Companies should stop blocking social media
Article 29/08/11 These days news breaks on Twitter, not on CNN. And we can talk to friends and colleagues real time, anywhere and anytime…often for free. Digital natives don’t even use email anymore, it&r
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How to increase your visibility on LinkedIn by 1000%
Article 22/08/11 You’re probably posting interesting updates on LinkedIn that your connections find extremely valuable.
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How Transformational Leaders Manage a Really, Really Bad Day
Article 22/08/11 The stock market is a roller coaster. You find out you’re not going to hit the numbers for the quarter. More people you know are out of jobs. Congress can’t seem to agree on what they want
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Social support: giving more important than receiving
Article 16/08/11 The greatest metric for predicting job satisfaction and engagement is the social support perceived by the employee. And job satisfaction and engagement directly correlate with productivity. So the bes
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Bedrijven laten kansen social media onbenut
Article 09/08/11 Eigenlijk wisten we het al, maar het is ook door onderzoek bevestigd. Bedrijven maken naar eigen zeggen onvoldoende gebruik van de mogelijkheden van social media. Dat blijkt uit recent gepubliceerd on
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Article 09/08/11 Acceptance is a tricky thing for most of us. Some of us feel that if we accept a situation or person we don’t like then we are tolerating it ‐ or worse ‐ condoning it. It is hard to
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Eliminating the 'ums' and 'uhhs' from your speech
Article 01/08/11 Brad Philips, author of the Mr. Media Training Blog and the president of Phillips Media Relations, has a funny and easy trick that will help you eliminate the uhms and uhhs from your speech. And if yo
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5 questions you should ask during a job interview
Article 01/08/11 Everyone with any interviewing experience knows that before an interview you must do some research, but many still fail to prepare for one crucial part. At any interview an interviewer is going to ask
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You might want to name your daughter Deborah to help her with her career
Article 25/07/11 Are some names more successful than others? Yes they are. Top 5 names for female CEO’s are Deborah, Sally, Debra, Cynthia and Carolyn. The cold, hard data to prove it come from LinkedIn. Monica
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Five people that should be on your personal board of directors
Article 18/07/11 Direction and guidance are two things that are always helpful in the business world, whether you’re a seasoned professional with years of experience under your belt – or you’re worki
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Waarom begrijp je me niet? Beter samenwerken door het (h)erkennen van communicatiestijlen.
Article 18/07/11 Even een snelle test. Welk motto past bij jou? Tijd is geld, niet lullen maar poetsen en gevoelens zijn voor thuis! Een dag niet gelachen is een dag niet geleefd e
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Echt leiderschap vraagt grondige zelfkennis
Article 11/07/11 Het kind in de leider.. In elke volwassene schuilt een kind. Daarvan zijn verreweg de meeste mensen zich wel bewust. Vrijwel elke psycholoog houdt rekening met de invloed van jeugdervaringen op het la
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Are Men better than Women at Social Networking?
Article 11/07/11 LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with more than 100 million members worldwide, recently released data on the differences between men and women when it comes to networking p
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8 Words That Should Never Appear in Your Twitter Bio
Article 11/07/11 Jeff Haden checked out a lot of Twitter bios when he was looking for a LinkedIn expert to help with a potential blog post. He didn’t find an expert. He did find a lot of awful Twitter bios
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# 3 Lessons in Blogging: The F words – FRIENDSHIP
Article 04/07/11 In my last two posts I have shared what I have learned about the importance of FOCUS and FREQUENCY for the blogger. In this post I am going to talk to you about the final F Word – FRIENDSHIP.
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Actieve coaching corporate personalities vereist
Article 28/06/11 Hoe creëert u corporate personalities? Ook jong talent kan een voortrekkersrol vervullen bij het bewaken en versterken van de reputatie van bedrijven en overheid. Maar actieve coaching is vere
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# 2 Lessons in Blogging: The F words – FREQUENT
Article 27/06/11 Jo Parfitt has been blogging badly and blogging well for four years. She shares lessons learned here with LEAP.
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Get your own personal leadership values report for free!
Article 19/06/11 The Australian based consultancy and coaching firm Values Grid invites you to explore your values and fully realise your leadership potential. It offers you, free of charge, your own personal v
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#1 Lessons in Blogging, the F words : Focus
Article 19/06/11 Jo Parfitt has been blogging badly and blogging well for four years. She shares lessons learned here with LEAP.
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Corporate personalities versterken reputatie bedrijf
Article 06/06/11 Bent u een corporate personality? Een reputatie berust niet meer alleen op het gedrag van de CEO. Via social media kunnen ook de werknemers een rol spelen in de corporate reputatie. Bedrijven b
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Board Diversity Slipping: is it time to name and shame?
Article 24/05/11 Released last week, the 2010 Alliance for Board Diversity Census revealed some discouraging news. Despite the best efforts of outspoken org
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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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Holistic Leadership: The Starbucks example
Article 25/04/11 In an article for Evolved Employer Melissa Anderson says there are three reasons why holistic leadership means becoming a better employer. She uses the recently published book by Starbucks’ Chai
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Inkomen Japanse vrouwen passeert dat van mannen
Article 18/04/11 Japan domineert al weken de hoofdpagina’s om de verkeerde redenen: twee natuurrampen en ook nog een mogelijke nucleaire ramp. Er valt ook goed nieuws vanuit het getergde land te mel
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The Future of Finance Leadership
Article 18/04/11 How can aspiring Group CFOs ensure that they are well prepared to meet the future challenges of the role? These nine steps will bring them closer to their goal, reveals a recent study by
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Toot your own Horn: Gain visibility and advance your career.
Article 01/04/11 How do you promote yourself? You probably don’t. Or not enough. Men write emails tooting their own horns or celebrating the accomplishments of their colleagues. Women too often think th
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5 ways to keep your womens’s initiatives on track
Article 28/03/11 It’s no surprise that throughout the economic downturn, companies’ resources have become scarce, and issues of diversity and gender i
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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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Bedrijven scoren beter met vrouwen
Article 21/03/11 Voor de meeste LEAPvrouwen zal dit geen verrassing zijn: gemengde teams boeken meer omzet, winst en winst per aandeel. Dit is nu ook wetenschappelijk gestaafd.
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Hartveld: "Geen quota, wel verplicht sollicitatiegesprek"
Article 15/03/11 Voor werkgevers is blank, gezond, autochtoon en man nog altijd eerste keus. Dus moet de overheid zijn verantwoordelijkheid nemen. Niet met quota’s maar bijvoorbeeld werkgeve
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Designerjurk in de uitverkoop? Je achternaam bepaalt!
Article 14/02/11 Designerjurk in de uitverkoop? Je achternaam bepaalt of je hem te pakken krijgt. Heet je Abels? Dan heb je minder kans op het bemachtigen van een product of dienst waarvoor
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Article 07/02/11 Consider this for a moment, “the secret to erasing all signs of victimhood and martyrdom is being conscious of and taking responsibility for all of your choices.”
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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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Competent and likeable: female lawyers can be both!
Article 31/01/11 How does the likeability/competence double-bind affect female lawyers today? According to some new research, it doesn’t!
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Article 24/01/11 Yours is yours and his is ‘family-income’? The recession is over! Apparently it ended quietly last year in a windowless office of a dyslexic statistician working for the
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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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No women on the board of the big social media companies
Article 10/01/11 At our event of September 24th the results of the ELP Survey showed women are doing better than men in recognizing and using the possibilities for new ways of communicating and collaborating offered b
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Huwelijkse voorwaarden: Goed voor ons!?
Article 20/12/10 Trouwen in gemeenschap van goederen is uit de tijd. Maar als de huwelijkse voorwaarden de standaard worden komen de prinsesjes achter de kassa na een echtscheiding. Net goed? Nee toch! Of zouden er mi
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Article 29/11/10 What do hardworking Americans think about Dutch spoiled princesses?Women should work longer hours. It is their duty to use their educations and skills. But instead of financial independenc
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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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Worstelen met de term leiderschap. Is een leider de baas?
Article 15/11/10 Bianca Heiszwolf was een van de discussieleiders tijdens de parallel sessie van LEAP! op het event van Talent naar de Top. Aan haar tafel ontspon zich een interessante discussie over de term ‘ni
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Choice Management: letting small fires burn
Article 01/11/10 Letting small fires burn can be good for the forest. Don’t put out all your small fires immediately. Let them burn and get back to them later.
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Move over Time Management! Make room for Choice Management!
Article 19/10/10 How you can stop trying to manage time? How can you find a way to be more powerful and effective in the face of everything you juggle and end the day with sense of fulfillment and purpose?
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Liselore’s life and work with social media
Article 30/09/10 We all have new media and social media at our disposal. But how do they fit in the new way of working and communicating? IBM’s
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LEAP Connected Ambition Highlights
Article 17/09/10 The pictures said it all: the LEAP Connected Ambition Event –powered by IBM, was a dazzling success. Here are some of the hig
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Maaike Kamphuis on change through networks
Article 17/09/10 As old school processes diminish in importance within organisations, change in networks inevitably follows. IBM’s change consultant Maaike Kamphuis believes that by better understandi
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Article 16/09/10 Earlier this year, Ann De Jaeger wrote ‘we need a distinctively different next generation business model if women
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Photo impression Connected Ambition Event 14 sep 2010
Article 14/09/10 LEAP proudly pronounces that the Connected Ambition Event was a success. A brief look at the evaluation forms made it clear that the audience was very enthousiastic: scores were between 7 and 10!
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‘Find your stakeholders and your enemies’
Article 09/09/10 New ways of communicating and collaborating challenge us to rethink the current ones. Liselore Ammerlaan-van Rijn, IBM&r
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LEAP Ambition event: The Speakers (4) Araz Najarian
Article 02/09/10 Araz Najarian is responsible for designing and delivering projects enabling the development of next generation leadership in various organisations; from transport and logistics to telecom
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LEAP Ambition event: The Speakers (3) Berend Jan Hilberts
Article 25/08/10 An associate partner of Executive Learning Partnership (ELP) and head of ELP’s Social Media Leadership Lab practice, Berend Jan Hilberts is a strategist at heart. He’s one of the s
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LEAP Ambition event: The Speakers (2), Ann De Jaeger
Article 12/08/10 Her passion for teaching and technology crowned her the queen of management videos. Ann De Jaeger is presently Managing Partner of Executive Learning Partnership (ELP). She’s one of the
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LEAP Connected Ambition event: The speakers (1)
Article 09/08/10 Liselore Ammerlaan-van Rijn, is development manager Smart Work Practices at IBM and one of the speakers at the LEAP Connected Ambition
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“Allow yourself to float and experiment”
Article 06/07/10 We’re continuing the World Café debate at the LEAP Energy event online, and ask: how far are you in self-leadership and in your leadership journey? Corrine Petrus, senior manager
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Koen Gonnissen on effectiveness vs excellence
Article 25/06/10 “What results do you deliver when you work effectively?” Koen asked the audience of the LEAP Energy event at Ernst & Young’s. ‘Profit,’ answered someone.
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Koen Gonnissen: mentor, executive coach, energiser
Article 13/06/10 An efficient energy management is the best way to top performance, says Koen Gonnissen. He’s one of the speakers at the LEAP self-leadership event on 15 June – Get energised by the
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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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European employees: ‘management are fraudsters’
Article 14/05/10 More than half of the European employees expect corporate fraud to increase over the next few years. And 42 percent say the senior ranks pose the biggest threat of fraud, reveals Ernst &a
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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 15/03/10 ‘Ditch the niceties’, ‘banish ambiguity’ and ‘open up’. This is how you create the right team relationship, reports
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‘We need more managers, not leaders’
Article 15/03/10 “You can’t turn a non-manager into a manager,” declares Henry Mintzberg, professor of Management Studies in Montreal-based McGill University. The Economist hasn’t
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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 Vitality is at the basis of everything we do. Whether our brands, our people or our values are involved. Vitality means different things to different people. To some it stands for energy, other
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