Making a career transition—whether it’s to find a new job, assume new responsibilities, or start a business—is stressful. If the stress is positive, it can increase your chances for success. If it’s negative, however, it can undermine your efforts when you need to project confidence and achieve results the most.…
Entries by Helene Lerner
Nobody likes to be rejected, but as Wayne Gretzky famously said: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” Rejection is part of life and certainly part of the workplace, especially for those who are striving to succeed. You didn’t get the promotion you were hoping for; your…
Unfortunately, it’s a fact that there continues to be a disparity between what women and men earn. Women only earn 78 percent of each dollar earned by men annually, and oftentimes it is because men are more comfortable with negotiating. Doing so is tough for both sexes, but women typically…
I recently met with a young woman who has been at her job for three years. She is a registered dietician working at a hospital and it is her first job out of graduate school. She is very happy there, but, in looking ahead, she believes that there is not…