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There’s always the difference between men and women status on their gender career. Here we try to compile some of career advice for women that might suit and help you achieve success on your own career terms.

Know What You Want
As women, we learn to go along to get ahead and we tolerate abusive co-workers, lack of opportunities for advancement and inflexible schedules. We also sometimes tolerate mind-numbing work, chairs that give us backaches, poor leadership and and doing extra work because others cannot handle the load.
I must say, stop it now as you are the only one who can get clear on what you need to have a fulfilling life and business. Do some small research on: is it a respectful environment, interesting work, the chance to learn new things? Financial independence? Your name on the door? If you are stuck and don’t know where to start, remember that complaints are unfulfilled requests. Find what are women complaining about here, what’s the opposite, and seek it out.

Know Thyself
This must be the first step on any career advice, as we live in a busy world with lots of other human beings, and with all the demands on us, so it can seem self-indulgent to stop and look inside. Well, it’s actually the ultimate gesture of self-respect to stop and explore what makes you tick. You can significantly increase your woman personal effectiveness by focusing on specific goals, understanding your own style and knowing your strengths. You can write your own journal, hire a coach, take the MBTI again, do a 360 look inside first.

Be Bold
I regularly work with high achieving women entrepreneurs whose idea of basic competence equates to flawless performance – such as, “I’m not ready yet, but when I’m good enough, I’ll raise my rates” or something like “I can’t expand into that area as I haven’t totally mastered this one.”
Once women start to doubt themselves and negotiating skills suffer, they charge less than they should, reluctant to raise prices, barter too much, or give too much away for free, and something like that. Start to take a deep breath sometimes and … trust yourself and stop when something is 80 or 90% “perfect.” Just STOP. Once you regain consciousness after hyperventilating, you’ll find it’s enormously liberating.

Get Smart
Call out your inner Nancy Drew, and use your innate curiosity to dig up information you can use to help you communicate more effectively. Is your partner or key investor a stickler for details? Give information in bite-sized chunks with plenty of fine print, and provide regular written updates for their thoughtful review. Are they a “summaries only, please” type? Provide an overview, perhaps with bullets; update them on long-term plans with broad strokes, and keep the details handy in case there are specific follow-up questions. And as Maya Angelou says, “When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time.” Don’t ask if you aren’t ready to listen.

Self-management
It’s must be hard to be confident if you don’t believe your own abilities, start it by focus on your super areas. So you are a genius at writing easy-to-understand and entertaining PowerPoint presentations for investors, or press releases and promotions, or you do put together outstanding flowcharts and reports. Own your own talent and impact, and take any responsibility for the less fun stuff too. In your heart, you already know if part of the challenges you face are your own missed deadlines, your impatience or your perfectionism. Don’t forget to concentrate on addressing your own limitations, with a coach or other support, and get to work. Take your career chance, fail fast, dust yourself off, and do it again.

And we hope as we launched Women Career Advice, could help you to step into living a bigger more fulfilling life.

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