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Taking Time Off to Have Kids Won't Hurt Your Career
Penelope Trunk has a pretty interesting post on how taking time off to have kids actually won't hurt your career prospects, contrary to popular opinion. Her primary point is that the looming worker shortage is going to make access to...Is It Time to Break Up With Your Boss?
It's been my experience that many women hold on to bad relationships for far longer than they should--and holding on to a bad boss is no exception. Most of us know when to walk out on an abusive boss, but...Envisioning Your Future
At our career retreat last month, we did a lot of work with visuals. There's something about working with pictures that unleashes ideas and insights that aren't available to our verbal brains, in part because the "Judge" who tells us...Preparing for your New Year
Like many people, this is the time of year when I start thinking about where I've been and where I'm going. Although it's partly because we're in that week between Christmas and the New Year, I think I also get...Want to Increase Your Salary? Say "I'm Sorry"
An interesting tidbit via Christy Tucker--Apparently there's a direct correlation between your income and your willingness to apologize. According to a study published in Forbes: People earning over $100,000 a year are almost twice as likely to apologize after an...
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NEW AT BEYOND THE GLASS CEILING
Hi ladies, it's been awhile since we've gotten together after our fabulous career retreat with Michele Martin. I'm an organizer for the Women Rule DC! Meetup with a number of women who are just like us - socially responsible with dynamic personalities and powerful visions for their futures. I invite you to join this group so I can just send one big invite out to everyone at once. Makes it a little easier to organize! Let's continue to meet monthly in DC/MD/VA and support each other in our careers.
Not So Big Life Workshop in NY--July 4-6, 2008
For those of you who've been reading The Not So Big Life, author Sarah Susanka will be running a weekend retreat in Rhinebeck, NY on July 4-6, 2008. More info is available here. Thanks to Linsey for the head's up!
Looking for Computer Chicks
New member Rayna has create a group for those of us into computers--you can join it here.
Webinars on Creating Online Portfolios
If you want to learn how to set up an e-portfolio using free tools, I'll be running two webinars in the next month. The first one is a basic session that will introduce the basic principles of setting up a portfolio and show you a couple of free online tools to use to set up your portfolio. The second will be a little more advanced, showing you how to tell great stories with your online portfolio. You can get more info on the webinars here.
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Meeting Saturday, April 26 1 Reply
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Nonprofit Job Search Resources 6 Replies
Started by Michele Martin in Nonprofit Careers. Last reply by Willy Franzen Mar. 24, 2008.
Congrats to Rosetta - Washington Post Article! 1 Reply
Started by Jen McCabe Gorman in Nonprofit Careers. Last reply by Michele Martin Mar. 4, 2008.
Take Back Your 9-5 Discussion Group Jan. 26! 14 Replies
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Saying yes when you say no
During the meeting, we decided to answer a couple of questions from the book:
1) What makes you feel most alive?
2) What in your life would like to retire from that doesn't hold meaning anymore?
We all had a bunch of great answers to the first question--most not involving work. My particul… Continue
Posted by Elisa Ortiz on February 27, 2008 at 2:06pm — 1 Comment
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