Let’s get uncomfortable for a second. Have you ever noticed something about a perfect stranger that made you think a certain way about them? What about when you look in the mirror? There’s so much to say about the things we focus on when we first meet a new person or see ourselves each day. If you stop and think about those thoughts, you’ll notice what’s called your unconscious bias. These are things you think, but don’t necessarily know that often change your perception. Not all unconscious biases are prejudicial, but none of them help you to truly listen and know another person.
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Personality tests can be powerful tools for personal and professional development. Here are seven quick tips to help you go deep with the insights that you get out of your next self-assessment.
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Life,
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Leading Ourselves,
Emotional Intelligence,
Insight,
Career Development,
Assessment,
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Change Management,
Be Fearless, Be Brave,
Competence,
Webinar,
Personality
If you’re fortunate enough to be at home with work and paycheck, your health and the essentials. If you’re beyond the basics, then you’re focusing on adapting to the new, rapidly evolving 'normal'.
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Women in STEM,
Influence,
Digitial,
Developing Your Skills,
Challenges,
Career Development,
Career Possibilities,
Influence Without Authority,
Outreach,
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Change Management,
#WESTorg,
Women in Business,
Be Fearless, Be Brave
The sudden and total transition to remote work (RemoWo) triggered by COVID19 may mean that you need to tweak your work from home (WFH) setup. Compared to WFH-Fridays, full-time RemoWo requires a much stricter practice of boundaries and connections—both physical and mental. Check out these five quick tips to help you stay productive—and sane—in the weeks ahead.
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Work Life Balance,
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Digital,
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Women in Business,
Be Fearless, Be Brave
Fearless ≠ No fear
Fearless = Not constrained by fear
Fear is a survival mechanism. We need fear. Fear is an evolutionary force that pushes you forward. It’s denying fear that holds us back. At its root, fear often revolves around the possibility of losing something we value. That may be something we already have or something that we aspire to.
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Annual Theme,
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Be Fearless, Be Brave
Your career is your business. A successful business model is an intentional implementation of vision—not a reactionary fix.
Unlike an organization, your vision is not set in stone. Being a business of one makes you nimble and adaptable. Being human means that the only thing you can’t do is stay the same.
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Roadmap,
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Own It,
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Risk,
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Be Fearless, Be Brave
Promoted to manager? Congrats!
Wait, wait. Wait. What exactly is my job now?
The shift from individual contributor to manager can be difficult. As Karen Dillon explains, “The irony for most newly appointed managers is that the skills and qualities that earned them the promotion are very different from those that will serve them well as a leader.”
This paradox is especially sharply felt in STEM. Fortunately, while acute, this reaction is also incredibly common. To learn more, WEST spoke to Richard Laskey about his experience transitioning from a senior software engineer to software engineering manager.
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Lead,
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Developing Your Skills,
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Leaders,
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New Opportunities,
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MBA,
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Women in Business,
Organizational Culture,
Be Fearless, Be Brave
Learn more about past events listed below
5/15: Finding your Voice Among all the Chatter
6/12: How to Inspire, Advocate and Grow During Change
6/20: Building Your Company Culture and Developing Your People
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Women,
Boston,
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Cambridge,
Network,
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Networking,
Innovation,
Biotech,
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Change,
Lessons Learned,
Connect,
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Change may be life's only constant, but unexpected change is tricky for everyone.
You speak. WEST listens! By popular request, the next WESTevent is a workshop on how to own unexpected change. We're talking to Claudette Rowley about handling the change you didn't see coming. Change that is beyond our control. Change that we did not instigate and cannot avoid.
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Women in STEM,
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Change,
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Conflict Resolution,
Career Development,
Own It,
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Change Management,
#WESTorg,
Women in Business
