It’s important to be aware of your comfort or discomfort with persuasion. Find out how fear plays a role in your influencing or persuasive behavior. Here’s a quick self-exam. Yes, ladies, just as we do an external exam, it is equally important to do an internal exam. Read these statements. Be as honest as you[...]
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Persuasion Comfort via Karen AND Dale Carnegie
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on November 2, 2011
How To Be In The Right Place At The Right Time
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on October 12, 2011
Do you always do the right thing at the wrong time? Maybe you’re in the right place but the wrong time. Timing is a trait everyone wishes they had. Can the art of perfect timing be learned? Is it simply a matter of thinking or listening to that feeling in your gut? It’s both. The[...]
Read More . . .Women in Business: Beware the Best Friend Syndrome
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on July 27, 2011
Women in business have business relationships with clients, colleagues, partners, employees, and vendors. Relationships are an essential part of their work, and in order to keep their businesses on an even keel, it is important to know when and how to manage the blurry line between personal and professional relationship status. Case in point: Nancy[...]
Read More . . .3 Things to Know About the Truth Behind Your Influence
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on June 29, 2011
Being influential can mean the difference between success and failure. Yours. Influence is touted to women as an outer or external component as a means of getting what you want. This is logical IF you accept influence as how to exert power over someone or a situation. James Ford instructs leaders on the five sources[...]
Read More . . .Women in Business: Do You Have Stick-tuitive-ness?
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on June 22, 2011
When it comes to being in business, the road to success can be long and hard, marked by many highs and lows and everything in between. Like life, our business can make us ride an emotional roller coaster – if we let it. We may jump for joy when we land a new client or[...]
Read More . . .How To Do It Right the First Time
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on June 1, 2011
One of Murphy’s Law states, “There’s never enough time to do something right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” Doing it right the first time would mean no mistakes, no regrets and no doubts. But if you didn’t make mistakes, have regrets or deal with doubts, then what would you learn? Very[...]
Read More . . .The Corporate Women’s Road Less Traveled
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on June 1, 2011
The saying, “Lonely At The Top” is true for women now more than ever. Why? There simply aren’t enough women moving in forward motion. Now, some of you may totally disagree, but let’s look at the facts. Women outnumber men in the workplace but show up in less than 10 percent of senior level positions[...]
Read More . . .Top 5 Ways to Come Home
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on May 25, 2011
Home. A place to live, feel secure, be free. Yes. But not the home you sleep in every night. This home is where you return when you’ve been hurt or damaged. The home where you celebrate your victories and evaluate your future plans. This is the place inside you where nobody else is privy. Where[...]
Read More . . .7 Personal Power Qualities of Influential Women
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on May 25, 2011
Personal power makes a woman influential. Her personal power is what is left when other powers (money, position, relational) are lost to her. Women are learning the value of their personal power. For years, they have invested in the belief of being powerless. Competing desires, thoughts, and feelings interfered with accessing their power. Many times[...]
Read More . . .Pessimistic. Negative. Or Just a Critical Thinker?
by Karen Keller, Ph.D. on April 17, 2011
A group of anthropologists at Cambridge were conducting research on the concepts of pessimism and optimism. Their subjects were two young boys: one a pessimist and the other an optimist. The pessimistic boy was put in a room full of wonderful toys. The optimistic boy was put in a room with nothing but a barrel[...]
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