Mary Ellen brings insights critical for selling, leadership development, innovation, and success. You’ll walk out with tools you can bring to back to your team–and you’ll leave feeling inspired, empowered, and able to take action.
It can range from very subtle to outrageous and all levels in between. Individually, they may seem harmless, but when taken as a whole, they can wreak enormous damage on a woman’s psyche and career. I call them the six D’s:
DISMISS
DISPARAGE
DISCONCERT
DISSEMBLE
DISCRIMINATE
DISHEARTEN
Using stories and examples from my life and others in male-dominated professions, I show how the most successful women…
Recognize when we are being dismissed and insist on being heard.
Challenge disparaging comments, or simply prove them wrong.
Are strong in the face of disconcerting attacks.
Learn to recognize and challenge dissembling behavior.
Insist on equal opportunity.
Instead of being disheartened, speak out against the large and small injustices in the workplace.
Recognize when you become a threat to others and find ways to defuse the threat or deal with it.
Leverage your strengths and improve your areas of weakness to achieve your goals.
Fight back when it’s warranted or play the game, when that’s the better choice.
Change the game, when neither fighting nor playing along makes sense.
Keep your cool under fire, recognizing self-defeating thoughts and behaviors, and replacing them with more empowering ones.
Learn how and when to seek help, and how to get others to do what you want and need.
Pick yourself up after defeat, and move forward.
Define success in your own terms, and do what it takes to achieve it.
This book is about helping you to survive and thrive at work despite obstacles, and to achieve whatever “success” at work may mean for you.
Anne Marie Munson, Senior Vice President of Operations at American Chiropractic Association
Evelyn Butler, Bookkeeper at EB Bookkeeping Services
Evelyn Powers, Founder and Digital Strategist of Design Powers
