How to Avoid Emotional Collisions with your Male Co-Workers
If you want good work relationships, it will help to understand a few key ways men are wired. After all, you can only work on yourself.
Survey Verbatims – How Men Think in the Workplace: The one thing they most wanted to say (from the books For Women Only in the Workplace and The Male Factor)
The verbatim answers of surveyed men to: Question 31: Please provide an example of something that even a skilled woman might unintentionally do that undermines her effectiveness or perception with men. Click here to read the responses for this question. Question 33: Finally, if you could give one piece of advice to women in the…
Tell Your Drama to Your Mama (or Your Girlfriends)
Dear Shaunti, I’m always balancing my roles as a mom, wife and businesswoman, but I work almost entirely with men who don’t “get” how much more I have to juggle than they do—especially when there’s a problem at home. I recently had an especially stressful few days where my husband and kids were sick, I…
My Eyes are Up Here: Can I Be Seen as Pretty AND Professional?
Dear Shaunti: I am a female attorney, age 29, working at a large and prestigious litigation firm. I have a law degree from a top-five school, graduated near the top of my class, am smart, experienced and able to handle any case that is thrown at me. Yet at my firm I am surrounded by…
Sexual Attraction in the Workplace
Moody Radio Interview – How to Navigate Attraction in the Workplace Listen to this one hour debate between Christopher Heuertz and Shaunti Feldhahn about whether or not Iowa dentist Dr. James Knight was justified when he fired employee, Melissa Nelson, who worked as a dental assistant for being “irresistible”. Dr. Knight complained Nelson wore tight clothes…
Men Perceive “Emotions” as Way More Than Crying
We always say that men are uncomfortable with emotions. But what does that really mean? What do they consider to be part of the “emotional” realm? It can’t be that men have no emotions. Rather, men display emotion differently than women. Biological architecture of male brains enables them to experience the four basic emotions –…
