Lois P. Frankel’s “Nice Girls Still Don’t Get the Corner Office” empowers women to cease sabotaging themselves at work by inhibiting unconscious limiting behaviors. Lois fights against the outdated assumptions that stand in the way of women from promoting themselves assertively and proposes that women learn to negotiate higher pay, claim credit, and strive to rise to leadership roles. The book is helpful to women who are seeking to attain power and achieve the success that they deserve.
Here are 10 key lessons from Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office:
1. Say no when necessary: Stop saying yes, just to please others. Prioritize your time and goals. Learn to be direct and turn down tasks when they don’t fit in your time or align with your goals.
2. Promote your achievements: Make your accomplishments very visible, don’t expect that others will automatically notice your contributions. When at meetings, speak up, update your supervisors, and ask for promotions when you’re deserving of them.
3. Assertively express your needs: Don’t allow the fear of seeming “pushy” to hold you from clearly communicating your needs and opinions. Be confident, not apologetic, about what you desire.
4: Negotiate unapologetically: Know your worth and don’t dare undervalue yourself. Boldly ask for fair pay and resources instead of making them unnecessary. You shouldn’t talk yourself down.
5. Take the credit when you work: When you are complimented on a team effort, do not deflect praise, instead talk about your contribution. own your personal successes in the public.
6. Build self-confidence: Put self-doubt aside by seeing yourself as competent. Don’t compare yourself with others but focus on your capabilities. Fake it until you make it.
7. Invest in relationships: Build lasting connections and define boundaries. Stay away from gossip and keep confidences Share credit when due and uphold sincerity.
8. Embrace constructive criticism: learn to listen to feedback without putting up a defense if you want to grow. Don’t let unfair attacks get to you. You must fail to make progress.
9. Establish work-life boundaries: Jealously protect your personal time. Handle expectations with wisdom and develop healthy habits. Don’t allow guilt come in the way of finding balance.
10. Take the lead: Be confidence and poise, even when nursing self-doubts. Be firm about decisions rather than waffling. Influence and motivate those around you and let them see you as a leader.
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