Season 1
Episodes
Kick Your Career into High Gear: 8 Tips from the Pitch
This is undoubtedly a blog of a different color!I had the pleasure of watching many of the Euro Cup games over the last few weeks, and while I'm from the U. S., and more or less agnostic about who wins, I do have to...
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1 Career-Changing Question Every Woman Should Ask in Interviews
TLDR: Use your smart search capabilities to discover where a woman can go in the company you're interviewing for. Also ask questions to discover what the hiring manger thinks about where women can go.
A Lesson for the...
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Your Strengths Don't Matter
Your strengths don't matter!
Do I have your attention yet?
It's not 100 percent true, of course, and I will get to that in a minute. But first, let me explain what I mean.
When it comes to career growth, decisions are...
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Managers (Not Women) Must Break the Glass Ceiling
If organizations, coaches, and consultants spent half as much time getting managers to do their jobs rather than putting energy and effort into "fixing" women, we would be much further ahead on creating a level...
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Biz Talk - A Success Secret
This morning I'm musing about the question that I often I've gotten asked, mostly from men in my audiences, "Well, if organizations don't do such a good job teaching about The Missing 33%, how is it the men get...
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Speak Up!
I recently gave a webinar and before the webinar I had my colleagues inside the company poll their internal women's group to see which of nine topics they'd prefer me to touch on. One of them was "speaking up with...
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Unlock Doors to Opportuinity
TLDR: Having financial acumen and speaking the language of business will ensure that you aren't locked out of career opportunities.
You might have noticed in a past podcast that I recorded severalĀ in the town of El...
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Strengthen Your Strategic Acumen
TLDR: This is already a very short summary of key info about strategic acumen. Please Read ON!
Strategic acumen is perhaps my favorite of the three elements of Business Savvy, because I had to unlearn everything that...
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About Business Savvy YOU!
About Business Savvy YOU!ā
Good morning from beautiful South County, Rhode Island, where I am enjoyingĀ the second day of sunshine for my morning walk.Ā It has been kind of a brutal spring.Ā As a regular listener to...
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5 Indicators that You're Ready for a Promotion
I recently delivered a webinar on how to Make the Most of Mentoring. During the Q& A one of the attendees asked:
"How do I know if I'm ready for a promotion?"
if I were to go simply by my Myers-Briggs preferences,...
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But I'm Not Ambitious, Do I Need Business Savvy?
These are five reasons,Ā and there are many more, that even if you don't self identify as ambitious,Ā developing and demonstrating business savvy will serve you well.Hi, this is Susan ColantuonoĀ coming from beautiful...
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Tip: Get Heard in Meetings
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TLDR: Use preparatory language to increase your chances of being heard and gaining the respect you deserve. Preparatory language is a comment made before the important comment. It is designed to draw attention to...
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