Keep asking questions
As a blond woman with a friendly attitude and open personality, I am often underestimated. This happens especially in workshop situations, when I ask a lot of questions like “did I understand you correctly…?”, or “so you are saying x is like this…?” as part...
Being underestimated is an advantage. Being undervalued is not.
A few years ago, a client was openly laughing at my pricing over the phone. She found it ridiculously high, and she let me know that in a hurtful way. What hurt the most in this situation was the fact that this was a client who had hired me before, not once, but...
Lead their minds
Leadership is much more about leading people’s minds than leading their actions. “What?!”, I can hear you scream. “Leading people’s minds, that’s indoctrination, manipulation! Haven’t we got enough of that in politics and marketing? Now you’re going to encourage...
Breathe through the overwhelm
I’ve just finished a coaching call with a project lead and their pmo. Tasked with a huge project, they had been struggling to find a structure for the conceptual process of product development and the integration of all the stakeholder input. As with many such...
Stay in the game
There are a lot of studies showing that women are not interested in leadership positions. Just last week, I heard more news about how women don’t want leadership positions from a study on women in project management. Some who had had a leadership position...