Jessica Gendron, Author at The Center For Leadership Excellence

Is Now the Right Time to Invest in Your Leadership Development as a Female Leader?

Jessica Gendron March 30, 2020 0 Comments

Is Now the Right Time to Invest in Your Leadership Development? By: Patty Prosser, Co-Founder We are navigating in uncharted waters. The challenges our current situation is presenting to corporate leaders is both rare and unusual. Most, if not all of us, have never experienced anything like this before, in our lives, let alone our careers. Having to practice social distancing and operate...

What is Outplacement and Why is it a Valuable Benefit for Companies?

Jessica Gendron March 17, 2020 0 Comments

What is Outplacement and Why is It a Valuable Benefit for Companies? By: Jessica Gendron, President To be honest, until about two years ago, I had never heard of outplacement. It was a foreign concept to me - and it may be to you, too - but it can prove to be a valuable benefit to departed employees AND your company. What is Outplacement? Outplacement or Career Transition Support is a benefit...

What Does it Take to Be a Great Place for Women to Work?

Jessica Gendron March 10, 2020 0 Comments

What Does it Take to Be a Great Place for Women to Work? By Jessica Gendron, President There is an abundance of available research around the bias and discrimination that women face in the workplace. That research gives us great insight in to what has limited the advancement of women and how it's stalling qualified women in their careers. For many of us, the question of "how to fix it"...

We Don’t Get Any Closer to Gender Equality When Men are Walking on Eggshells.

Jessica Gendron March 05, 2020 1 Comment

We Don't Get Any Closer to Gender Equality When Men are Walking on Eggshells. By Jessica Gendron, President There I was, wandering the halls of a large convention center, looking for a small board room for my first meeting of an Education Task Force I had been asked to join. I was nervous. Not because I doubted my expertise or skills, but because I would be the only woman in the...

What We’re Reading: February Edition

Jessica Gendron February 28, 2020 0 Comments

By Jessica Gendron, President I had a dilemma: I found myself inundated with book recommendations from friends, colleagues, social media, etc. My Audible and Amazon Wish List’s were getting longer and longer – yet I had no clarity on what to read next or titles that would be totally worth my precious 1 credit a month on Audible. I wanted to offer my fellow business book nerds and gender...

We Have a Pipeline Problem.

Jessica Gendron October 22, 2019 0 Comments

The McKinsey Women in the Workplace 2019 study was recently released and while it shows that over the last five years women have made significant gains in representation in senior leadership, as well as companies’ commitment overall to gender diversity – there is still a glaring and widening gap. While the majority of college graduates are female (around 60%), women still remain...

The Unintended Consequences of #MeToo

Jessica Gendron September 19, 2019 0 Comments

A recent study from the University of Houston took a close look at the post #MeToo workplace and its overall effects on inciting change. Most people believed that shining a light on the harassment that women face at work (and in every day life) would begin to shift the culture in the workplace and effectively deter men from future harassment. Women were lauded for speaking up and saying...

Sourcing & Recruiting: Women and Minorities

Jessica Gendron March 06, 2019 0 Comments

FACT: We Can’t Find Great Women or Minority Candidates: Regardless of whether you have gender equity goals for your organization, the rationale for not hiring more women and/or minorities is often, “We just didn’t have a large enough pool of female and diverse leaders to consider for this position. We needed to fill the position as soon as possible, so we hired the best person for that role...

Why You Need Two #1 Candidates in a Tight Labor Market

Jessica Gendron February 07, 2019 0 Comments

Why You Need To Identify Two #1 Candidates In Today’s Tight Labor Market By: Richard Butz In the previous blog, we recommended that hiring managers establish at least two goals for each search: “Short List”: The recruiting team should provide 5-7 well qualified candidate or the “short list pool” of candidates to be interviewed. “Finalists" or Two #1 Candidates: From this talent...

The Five Myths of Work-Life Balance

Jessica Gendron February 05, 2019 0 Comments

The Five Myths of Work-Life Balance By: Jessica Gendron Everyone seems to be chasing the idea of work-life balance, yet many of us aren’t really sure what it looks like or how to achieve it. Let’s unpack the Five Myths about Work-Life Balance and what you can do to move closer to your ideal. MYTH #1: Balance Equals Perfection: There’s a fallacy that achieving balance is the same as...

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