The Taking Care Of Business Category

Very often, women who focus on making it to the top of their game have the stigma of lacking charisma and socialization skills. Unfortunately, from experience I can say this has been proven to be true.
Our socializing is mostly done outside of the work place. Our charisma, along with our sincerity and loyalty, shines through [...]

When it comes to being a perfectionist, I used to think I ranked high on my standards. I’m a business woman and feel extremely committed to my work. But since I have started seeing my Thumper in action, he has scored above any place I may have thought I occupied on the perfectionism scale.
Besides being [...]

The weather here in New York is getting chilly, rainy, and dark. Kind of like the economy and the news; a typical fall and winter. Thumper’s work load is becoming enormous, while mine is steady. So I can’t complain too much. Besides, it wouldn’t do me any good.
Managing our work load is a process still [...]

Do you fall into the rut of chronic workaholic? I know a few who do (not only business women, but also men), and I’m a binge workaholic myself. I’m going to try to describe how I approach my work, which is the result of my experience. I have been working for large companies before I started [...]

What kind of strategy do you use to get a new business client or project? Do you handle it professionally, or do you take the wine them, dine them, 69 them? Do you seduce them into your professional web?
Many clients are naive to the fact that some companies will intentionally see just how far their [...]

I had one of those rush around days yesterday with clients. I’m a business woman, but it wasn’t that I had many appointments, just traveling an hour to spend maybe fifteen minutes tops with one, and another client on the way home. But from the moment I pulled out of the garage, I was [...]

Are you a business woman, possibly traveling, and do you have meetings at business clients’ offices? Then I bet you know “him” just too well: the male client who is getting too personal just because you’re a woman. The one who is starting to flirt with you. And when you want to tell a client [...]

A few years ago it became popular for stay at home moms to start a business out of their home. Work from home moms would stay at home to raise their children, and they could schedule their work around them. Since then, it has become more popular for employers to hire these moms who work [...]

We all have at least one. Listen up business women. Whether it is a male or a female client you hate taking the call from, and you have to take a deep breath before you leave the car and as you enter his building. Okay, again in the elevator and before entering his office. What’s [...]

Pretty humbling, isn’t it? It could have been a pair of jeans that cost a buck fifty and it wouldn’t have had the impact, but instead, you sat down carelessly without looking at your surroundings. Now lets walk away from the park - to a formal company business dinner. How do you enter the [...]