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Future PlanningThe power of Women's Ally is the influential combination of resources that are pulled together to cover every aspect of your career and training needs.  We want you to keep your career advancement in the forefront as you juggle your busy life.  Women's Ally partners with you, making an investment in your professional and career development.  Quick and easy access to information will be a key to your success -- and you don't even have to think about it.  We do it for you.  Women's Ally provides the framework, you provide the commitment and collaboration. 

According to a recent Working Women Survey, we believe there are barriers to our career advancement. The common barriers cited are:
  •  Corporate culture favors men - 96%
  •  Exclusion from informal networks - 85%
  •  General stereotypes/preconceptions - 78%
  •  Perception of management that family responsibilities will interfere with work - 52%
  •  Lack of women on Board of Directors and Executive Management - 45%
  •  Women place barriers in her way - 19%

Our mission is to help you overcome these barriers, by making career advancement attainable to everyone, not just a select few.  This is achieved by offering advice and self development resources that are high quality, affordable, and easy to access.

These are quick links below to the library of articles provided EXCLUSIVELY by our site panel members.  If you are looking for training material, try Fast Track Skill Building.


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Recent articles

  Is Your Interview Attire Helping or Hurting You?

“Clothes don’t make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.”  ~ Herbert Harold Vreeland 
  The Importance of a Reserve Fund

I believe that having the choice to pursue Career Plan B without a sense of desperation or urgency is the epitome of financial security.
  Releasing Into Your True Purpose

Perhaps you wake up one morning and begin questioning your current career, company, or position. Perhaps you are laid off and begin to realize this is an opportunity to become much more. Either way change can be scary.
  Ready for Plan B?

Career Plan B?  I’m on Career Plan D already … and what I notice is … fragments of A, B, and C all play a role in this current version of Catherine Johns.
  Trust Plan B

One of the huge paradigm shifts of 2012 is moving from a culture based in fear to one based in trust.
  The Manager Relationship

Do you have a manager who is critical? Demanding? Passive/Aggressive? Or do you have a manager that hovers, always checking on what you do, where you go, fussing over each and every detail? 
  The Secret Is In the Strap!

Spring is the start of sleeveless season…and those ever persistent questions.  

Should I?  Could I?  Would I? 
  Self-Recognition

Seventy-eight percent of workers said being recognized for their good work motivates them in their jobs. My question is why are workers looking outside of themselves for motivation?
  Manage Your Words to Manage Your Manager

When we feel underappreciated at work, when our value goes unrecognized, it’s possible our managers are so oblivious that they just don’t notice our abilities and contributions.
  When You Know Your Worth, Everyone Else Does Too

Appreciation and acknowledgement is wonderful to receive, is it not? Unfortunately, it is not always thought of or given, at home or at work. Sometimes it even feels like it is deliberately withheld. And that doesn’t feel good. We feel the need and desire to be recognized, valued and appreciated. And we certainly deserve to be and in a perfect world we would be.
 
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