The P Word
January 23, 2012By Joanne Cleaver Published by the Chicago Tribune. Though they possess it, many high-ranking women seem reluctant to call it what it is: power Call it influence. Call it authority. Call it impact. Just don’t call it power. Top female …
The First 90 Days
By Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D. Hitting the ground running as a new executive You made it! You landed that high-powered job you’ve been aiming for. You’ve got the corner office and the parking spot and the key to the executive …
Smart Negotiating for Women
By Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D. How to get paid what you’re worth from your first day through your big promotion. Jill was thrilled – she had been offered a promotion. The new role would bring greater accountability and broader responsibilities. …
Sexual Harassment in the Office
By Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D. Featured on TCW Minute Mentor What to do if it happens to you Imagine this. You love your job. You invest a lot of energy into it and you are excited about the possibilities for …
Recession Proof Careers
By Gail Golden What are some up-and-coming industries these days on the job front? I’m rethinking my career plans, and I want one that helps put me ahead of the curve. What should I be prepping for? ANSWER: Information technology …
Falling Back To Work
By Tara Weiss Summer’s end got you down? Here’s how to restart your engine. With Labor Day come and gone, the lazy days of summer are over, and it’s time to get back to the serious business of work. Finding …
Downsized? Don’t Despair–Launch a Startup
On a Thursday morning in early May, Gail Golden says, the managing director at the consulting firm that had been her home away from home for six years called her into his office. In quick succession, she was told that …
Avoiding The Change Agent Trap
By Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D. Melissa was a whip-smart, highly successful business leader. She had worked her way up through the ranks, earning promotion after promotion by driving results and demonstrating her expertise. She was an acknowledged world leader in …
Damage Control for a Forced Exit
November 14, 2011By Joann S. Lublin Michael C. Woodford just got a crash course in how to protect your reputation when you’re forced out of a high-level job. The specifics of Mr. Woodford’s situation were anything but typical: The 51-year-old British chief …
D-Day + 8 Months
June 30, 2009This week I checked in with Gail Golden, subject of my column “Downsized? Don’t Despair, Launch a Startup,” which was posted on June 30, 2009. I wanted to know how this focused, smart entrepreneur was doing in this rocky economy. …
A Head For Business
April 27, 2009By Richard C. Morais Gail Golden, a consultant at RHR International, a firm that specializes in psychologically focused leadership advice, is seeing so many corporate castoffs determined to become their own bosses these days that she’s beginning to think her …
The Secret Job Search
February 23, 2009By Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D. Employed and looking? How to do it responsibly and successfully. Common wisdom says it’s easier to land a new job while you’re still employed. Potential employers won’t be wondering why you left your last position. …
What’s Your Due When You Lose A Job?
January 21, 2009By Eve Tahmincioglu Figure out what you’re really owed — and then move on After the initial shock of losing a job wears off, some people get angry and assume their former employer is trying to screw them out of …
Ride It Out Or Get Out?
December 8, 2008By Samantha Stainburn Gary Heidt didn’t see the recession coming when he decided in 2006 to sell Heidt’s Hot Rod Shop Inc. so he could spend more time with his wife and four grandchildren at home in Palatine. “Two of …
After The First Year
January 23, 2008By Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D. January 2008 Published by Today’s Chicago Women
Improv Troupe Teaches Managers How To Give Better Presentations
February 6, 2007By Joann S. Lublin Steve Bailey, a veteran project manager at an insurer, has given presentations for two decades. He figured he wouldn’t learn much last month when he and 11 colleagues attended a presentation-skills workshop run by Second City, …
After Major Illness: Side Effects On Job
November 6, 2006By Lisa Bertagnoli Returning to work after a life-threatening illness is hardly business as usual. Executives may return to the same company, sit at the same desk and work with the same colleagues — but little else about their working …
Managing: How Older Worker’s Can Feel More Valuable
August 28, 2006By Karen Hube Special FOR MOST OF his career, Barry Levitt of Scranton, Pennsylvania, felt like nothing could stop him. With a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a dream job as a communications research scientist, “I was …
Managing Up In The EHS Arena
March 6, 2006By Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D. According to a recent online survey conducted by Business & Legal Reports, dealing with upper management was identified as the major environmental, health, and safety (EHS) challenge by 60 percent of the respondents. Becoming more …
Smart Networking Has Subtlety, Mutual Help Factor
February 24, 2005By Carol Kleiman How networking works: Networking wherever and whenever you can might not always be a good idea. That’s a concern of Gail Golden, a consultant at RHR International Co. RHR is staffed by psychologists that specialize in the …
