Susan Hackley the Managing Director at the Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law School shares her expertise in negotiations and how women can use it to increase your salary.
Negotiating is a skill that every women uses daily, from talking to your boss, your customers, and even when dealing with demanding requests from your children.
Susan says that men are as a rule much more comfortable negotiating than women, and the lack of negotiating skills are obstacles to advancement for women in business and their careers.
Susan Hackley Bio
Join Susan and Sabrina Discussing:
- Setting up a framework for favorable negotiations
- How preparation is the most important ingredient
- How to think through your salary strategy
- Developing your negotiation muscle
- Learn to ask for what you want
- What to ask if you don't get the raise
- Use goals to help you grow into your next job
- Three ways to practice negotiating
- The importance of aiming high enough
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Next Show of Women's Leadership Success Radio Podcast:
Action Tips to Help You Get Promoted - The Power of Intention
Pat Drea, COO, Visiting Angels
Master networker and successful founder of a multi-million dollar business, Cynthia Good, Editor and founder of Pink Magazine shares her experience of seeing a need and making it happen. Listen to her insights on how you can make your life and career exceptional.
Cynthia Good Bio
Women's Leadership Success Show Highlights:
- Learn that "Asking is free."
- Have the courage to say "I will do that"
- Remember that working on your career is as important as working on your job
- Give up lunch at work, and start networking lunch
- Tips that will help you get promoted
- The strategy that helps put obstacles in perspective
Interviewing Cynthia Good was a wonderful experience. She is kind, gracious and passionate about helping women succeed in companies and as entrepreneurs.
She shares the goal at Pink of, "asking is free" and how that can change your life.
She will remind you of the importance of developing relationships with women you admire, and how that will enrich your life and career.
She reminds you that if you set your mind on a goal that you are passionate about you can make it happen. Listen and get excited!
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Filed under Networking, Management, Podcast, How to Get Promoted, Parenting, Life Balance, Career Development, Communications, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Blog by Sabrina Braham
Debbie Meekins Executive Vice President of Sterling Savings Bank, with over 200 branches and 1,300 employees, shares the career moves and leadership strategies she used to get promoted from bank teller to one of the first women presidents of a bank in California at 38 years old.
Sabrina Braham, host of Women's Leadership Success Radio and Debbie talk about how she got out of her comfort zone, learned new leadership and career skills and called upon her business network to excel in her new jobs.
Highlights of the Interview:
- When you should change companies even though it is scary and painful
- What to do when you have been promoted and don't know how to do the job
- Moving forward from mistakes, career development tips
- Three important steps to getting a promotion for women
- A women's best approach to politics at work
- Community service as a way to catapult your career
- How to relate to people that work for you
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Join Sabrina and Nancy Hayes, Dean of the College of Business at San Francisco State university with over twenty years of senior executive experience at IBM and quoted in the book, The Secret Hand Shake, talk about the advantages for women's career by getting a Masters in Business Administration (MBA).
Nancy Hayes Bio
Highlight of this Show: Will an MBA Help Your Career?
- The value of an MBA for Women's Careers
- How to manage your career or restart it
- How you can use an MBA to differentiate yourself from others
- Networking and relationships for career development
- How to maximize this educational opportunity for women
- Build your self confidence with an MBA
- Why it is important to become the go to person
- Develop opportunities to change careers for women
- Learn what a "T" shaped person is
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Sabrina Braham interviews Michelle Messina principle of Explora International who provides you five career development secrets to being entrepreneurial and jump starting your own business.
For over 19 years she was a Vice President of Sales, Business Development and Marketing in the Silicon Valley. She was laid off during the dot com crash. After a lot of soul searching she decided to take the plunge and start her own business.
Starting Your Own Business; Women's Leadership Success Show Summary
- Shares her excitement in owning her own business
- Michelle reveals her fears and anxieties around starting her business
- Where she got the support and encouragement to move ahead
- How she developed her successful consulting firm
- The key ingredient to continual success and profits
- The value of networking for women entrepreneurs
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Do you know what your big dream is? Specifically, the career or personal goal you have for yourself?
Today, pick one thing that will be challenging, might be scary, and do it.
Write down what it is. And then how you feel after you finish it.
Let me know what you did. You can do it!
Sabrina
