Cotton Floral Eyelet Jacket – loft.com
Deal Alert! LOFT is having a 50% sale on everything, yes, you read right, 50% off on everything (use code RUSH50). So take advantage of the good deals, and for our fashion interlude today, we picked this floral cotton eyelet jacket.
Loving the subtle black-and-white see-through effect of this springy, light yet very much office-appropriate jacket. It’s $128, and is now 50% on sale!
Pass the word…
The Corporate Sister.
Administrative Professionals Day – madamenoire.com
Happy Wednesday!
Today is Administrative Professionals Day, and for those among us who are gifted with amazing assistants or work in departments boasting phenomenal administrative professionals, it’s the day to recognize these individuals!
I’ve worked in a variety of departments where Administrative Professionals Day was celebrated in many different ways, from the simple card + flower display to the whole shebang, including floral/balloon displays and impressive gifts.
As elaborate or simple the celebration, it’s always nice and thoughtful to show your administrative assistant that you appreciate their effort, and that…you can actually order flowers and write a card without their help!
And if you’re wondering where to order flowers or which flower arrangements is best, we are loving this Fields of Europe – Thank You bouquet from 1-800-Flowers!
What are you offering your administrative assistant this week? How much are you willing to spend on a gift?
The Corporate Sister.
bamboo dry erase board – seejanework.com
It is Earth Day, and as environmentally conscious corporate sisters, we are also celebrating and honoring Mother Earth! And that is exactly why we picked today this bamboo desktop dry-erase board from seejanework.com.
Loving the natural look of it, as well as its versatility as it can be taken from the comfort of your kitchen to the organized business of your work desk.
It’s $14 at seejanework.com, and it’s our Earth Day crush of the day!
Seen a great, work-friendly accessory you’d like to share? Please email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com!
The Corporate Sister.
ceeceassociates.com
Happy Tuesday, and Happy Earth Day!
In today’s largely team-based corporate environments, leadership appears to be a constant requirement…even, and especially when, we are not exactly the Boss. Here you are, in a team of smart, ambitious, competitive team players, being assigned the responsibility to lead the team through a given project…only to be left wondering how in the world you can possibly act like the boss without the Boss title, experience or incentives for that matter…
I experienced this quite a bit in Big Accounting, where teams were assigned in hierarchical order, with staff led by Senior auditors, who in turn are led by Managers, and so forth and so on. While these reporting lines were most of the time informal and certainly blurry at times, they were still there to indicate some sort of an order to follow, even if titles, responsibilities and salaries were not necessarily aligned with them. It also had the benefit of teaching us, even as we just started out in the business, to lead, not necessarily from a place of existing authority, but rather from a place of acquired authority.
So how does one lead when one is NOT the boss? Especially when it comes to corporate sisters and minority women in the workplace who unfortunately tend to be perceived as having less authority in the workplace?
How do you lead when you’re not the boss?
The Corporate Sister.
actasifblog.com
Happy Monday!
Hope everyone had a great Easter week-end, and is ready to start this new week with as much chutzpah as it took to eat all those delicious Easter treats (you know who you are)…
And on days like today after a major holiday week-end, nothing like some healthy motivation to push us to produce our best work! Speaking of motivation, no one doubts the power of mentoring, especially when it comes to women’s careers. Yet very often, we tend to look more at what here at The Corporate Sister, we call vertical mentoring, as opposed to horizontal or peer mentoring.
I’ve had the opportunity to experience peer mentorship, and was pleasantly surprised with the results and long-lasting impact of it. While traditional mentoring implies a relationship between a role model figure and an aspiring employee or subordinate, peer mentoring has the advantage of leveling career-minded employees at comparable levels, thus fostering a sense of fellowship and comraderie.
Instead of looking up at one’s mentor as the idealistic representation of our career’s ambitions on a long-term basis, we can now look at a peer mentor as the attainable, concrete representation of our short-term career goals.
Don’t get me wrong, having an influential mentor in a higher-up position is an invaluable asset in one’s career. Benefiting from the experience, know-how, insights and even network of such mentors can propel us further in our careers faster than we could think possible.
However, many times we lack the immediate, short-term practical boost to step up the corporate ladder. And that’s exactly the added advantage that peer mentoring, at all levels of our career growth, can bring us…
Have you benefited from peer mentoring at work?
The Corporate Sister
