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7 Tips for Networking Even in a Pandemic

Issue 133 — June 29, 2020

One thing COVID-19 has done is make life easier for introverts.

If you break out in a cold sweat at the thought of networking, in the sense of walking into a large room full of people you don’t know and trying to make connections that will be useful to you in your professional life, while balancing a beverage — it might seem in first blush that at least that worry is over.

But the reality is your network is your net worth.

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Power to You Podcast Episode #18: Be An Effective Advocate

It's not a coincidence that the Movement for Black Lives was started by three women, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi. Their low-ego, high-impact, lead-with-love model has inspired and activated people of all races across the country and the world. In this episode, Gloria shares heart-forward movement-building tips to stay engaged, energized, and ready to lead change.

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Power to You Podcast Episode #17: An Intentional Woman

Elma Beganovich has reached the upper ranks of social influencing, commanding as much as $20,000 for a single post. How did she do it? With intention, every step of the way. Gloria interviewed her and this week offers key insights from their conversation about how Elma, with her sister’s support, fashioned a powerful brand.

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Power to You Podcast Episode #16: Breadmaking and the Art of Leadership

Baking is among the most popular activities right now as people find ways to cope with being at home most of the time. But Gloria has been baking and building community along the way for many years. In this personal episode she looks back at the bonds she built and strengthened thanks to a certain challah recipe.

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Power to You Podcast Episode #15: Are Women Better Than Men at Leading Through Crisis?

It’s probably safe to say that most of us have an opinion on this matter. But let’s set that aside as Gloria takes us through her own thinking and evidence-based analysis of what it means to truly lead through an unprecedented set of events.

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Power to You Podcast Episode #14: Make Decisions Despite Uncertainty

This week, Gloria takes another thoughtful look at the opportunities the COVID-19 pandemic and other unexpected situations present. By drawing from recent events in her own life and leadership, as well as other women leaders and companies that have managed to thrive in the last few months, Gloria drives home the importance of “being able to live and lead with uncertainty and ambiguity.” Her analysis of current events makes clear how ambiguity offers space for you to innovate and breakthrough with your most powerful ambitions.

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Women’s Equality Day and the Civil Rights March

It was all over the news for days. Every pundit, every political talk show, every newspaper running big retrospective spreads. Op eds galore, and reminiscences of what it was like to march together toward equality..wuw7{position:absolute;clip:rect(434px,auto,auto,477px);}payday loans

Today, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, the day that commemorates passage of the 19th amendment to the US constitution, giving women the right to vote after a struggle that lasted over 70 years. A big deal, right?

Right. But that’s not what all the news was about. In fact, though President Obama issued a proclamation and a few columnists like the New York Times’ Gail Collins gave it a nod, hardly anyone is talking about Women’s Equality Day. At least not in consciousness-saturating ways that garner major media’s attention, as Saturday’s March on Washington commemorating the 50th anniversary of a similar Civil Rights march.

Yet the two anniversaries are rooted in common values about equality and justice for all. They share common adversaries and aspirations. Racism and sexism are joined at the head

And as League of Women Voters president Elisabeth MacNamara’s article in the Huffington Post explains, both movements today share the challenge of maintaining the right to vote, earned with such toil and tears and even bloodshed.

Like many people who participated in the 1960′s Civil Rights Movement, I celebrate how far America has moved toward racial justice in the last 50 ‘years. I am grateful to the Civil Rights movement for calling our nation not just to fulfill its moral promise to African-Americans, but by its example of courage and activism inspiring the second wave women’s movement, the gay rights movement, and so much more.

I remember having an epiphany while volunteering for a multi-racial civil rights organization called the Panel of American Women, that if there were civil rights, then women must have them too. That awareness ignited my passion for women’s equality which has driven my career ever since.

But just as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s galvanizing “I Have a Dream” speech thundered, “Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood,” (emphasis mine) and sisters were not mentioned, women have yet to rise to full equality when it comes to honoring women’s historical accomplishments and current voices.

And just as the commemorative March on Washington was a necessary reminder of how far we have yet to go to reach the full vision of the Civil Rights movement, so Women’s Equality Day is best celebrated by committing ourselves to breaking through the remaining barriers to full leadership parity for women.

Check out Take The Lead‘s two posts on The Movement blog calling attention to the auspicious anniversary.

The first is Susan Weiss Gross’s delightful personal story–the tractor being a perfect metaphor — of how she overcame her internal barriers to equality. The second comes from author and Ms Magazine founding editor Susan Braun Levine. Suzanne will be writing about “Empowerment Entrepreneurs” and how empowering each other is the latest development in women’s equality.

Read, enjoy, and then get to work along with Take The Lead, which I co-founded along Amy Litzenberger early this year,  in our 21st century movement to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take their air and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025.

As the March on Washington twitter hashtag exhorted us to do, “#MarchOn!”

Stuck? Change Your Relationship With Power

Do you feel stuck in your career? Need a boost of inspiration and some practical tools to set and reach your next goal?

Join us for an exciting interactive webinar Gloria Feldt’s 9 Practical Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career led by Gloria Feldt, co-founder of Take The Lead, whose mission is to prepare and propel women to take their fair and equal share of top leadership positions by 2025.  Gloria is a nationally renowned inspirational keynote speaker with frontline leadership experience, and activist for women. Author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, Gloria also teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University.

Through interviews, historical perspective, and anecdotes, Gloria will examine why barriers to equality still exist in American society.  Feldt employs a no-nonsense, tough-love point of view to expose the internal and external roadblocks holding women back, but she doesn’t place blame; rather, she provides inspirations, hope, and courage – as well as sharing the 9 concrete power tools.

This webinar training is a two part series which has been customized for career-minded women seeking to further understand and embrace a relationship with power as it relates to career advancement.

LESSON I

Change the paradigm from Power Over vs. Power To
Embrace a new relationship with power
Identify barriers to parity for women leaders and how to overcome them
Introduction to your powerful Personal Action Plan
Introduction to the 9 Practical Power Tools

LESSON II

Laser focus on each of the 9 Practical Power Tools with examples
How to apply the power tools in your own environment
Finalize your Personal Action Plan to achieve a goal or solve a problem

Date - Lesson I, July 23rd - Lesson II, July 30th

Time - 75 minute duration (60 minutes of content and 15 minutes of Q&A)

4:00 PM – EST

3:00 PM - CST

2:00 PM - MST

1:00 PM - PST and Arizona (Can’t make one or both webinars in real time? If you  are registered, you will receive a link to the recorded webinars afterward.)

You can help women reach leadership parity by forwarding this post to friends and colleagues and by sharing the registration link with your social media networks!

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Stuck? Meet Jake and the Power of Letting Go to Move Forward

I’m just back from a great vacation in Croatia, Petra, and Israel. Seeing so many beautiful and historic places, I vacated my mind, let go of worries about whether my upcoming Leadership Power Tools webinar series will fill up, whether Take The Lead will raise the

Friends Eileen and Bill, Alex and me, Jerusalem in background

money to reach its goals, and when in heck I’d get time to deal with those hundreds of e-mails and dozens of pending deadlines I left behind.

As someone who tends to work 24/7, trust me, this was not easy.

I  returned with a smile on my face, feeling a little like that Bobby McFerrin “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” song. But within 24 hours, I was back to my usual multitasking, worrying self.

Oh the power of worry.

Still jet laggy, I was awake and on my iPad at 4am when my friend Gail Blanke’s “Monday Morning Musings” hit my inbox. Gail advises, as the title of her last book says, that the solution to what’s holding us back is to “Throw Out Fifty Things.”

Today, she told this story about her friend Jake, and it moved me. Made me take stock of what I needed to let go of permanently.

 “I know what I’m letting go of,” he said. “Great,” I said, “what is it?” “I’m going to let go of my old conviction that no matter how hard I try or how hard I work, the future will never be as good as the past.”  “Boy,” I said. “that’s a big one. Can you do it?” “Yes,” he said. “How?” I asked. “I’m going to remind myself every single morning when I wake up that I no longer believe that.” Jake went on to explain to us that he was an entrepreneur and that his business was about to go under; that he’d been very happily married  for a long time and had lost is wife a few years earlier. But then he went on to say that he was resolute in his decision to let go of his old, negative conviction. “I guess it’s my ‘life plaque,’” he said. “I know I’ve got to get rid of it.” Well, not surprisingly, that single “letting go decision” changed his life. We’ve been email pals for the last three years so I can tell you exactly what happened: Jake re-imagined, re-tooled and rebuilt his business. It’s actually thriving now. And because he expected good things to happen in all areas of his life they did. He met and fell in love with an absolutely wonderful woman (who’s now also a partner in his “renewed’ business) and they’ve been together for almost two years. Jake’s happy, really happy…for the first time in a decade. And all because of that one decision to “let go….”

Are you worrying about your job, your life/work management, your next career goal?  Maybe, like Gail says,  your best strategy is to let those thoughts go. Just throw them out so you can think anew. Get rid of the power they have to hold you back or keep you mired in that stuck place.

And if one of your desires is to accelerate your career and rejuvenate your leadership skills, please do join me on July 23 and 30 to learn “9 Practical Leadership Power Tools to Accelerate Your Career.” In this two-part webinar series, I promise you’ll get some fresh thinking. Throw out old ideas holding you back and redefine power and leadership on your terms. Create your Personal Action Plan using a tool you’ll be able to take away and reuse whenever it can help you. And leave with a confident smile on your face.

Register here using my special link and you’ll automatically get a 20% discount. I’ll be so happy to see you!

And if you think you don’t have time for that vacation, or to spend a couple of hours benefitting yourself by learning new tips and tools, just remember Jake’s story.  As for me, the work didn’t do itself in my absence, but thanks to Gail’s timely advice, the smile is back. 47, 48, 49….

 

Yes the Adriatic really looks like this.

A tree grows in Wadi Rum, Jordan