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Emerging Leaders Program
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Tech Terms
If you still think of comic book characters when you hear the
words Archie and Veronica, then it’s time to work on your technology
vocabulary. To view a list of frequently used tech
terms, please click
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Should an MBA be on your resumé?
"It’s a given that to hold your own in the communications
industry today, you have to keep learning. And there’s a lot to
learn..." To read more of Terra Lariviere's article,
please click here.
[PDF]
Member Recommended Reading List
To view the list of career and industry related books, click
here. [PDF]
MENTORING: Or how Not to Shoot Yourself in the Legacy Foot
By Rita Deverell, former Director of News and Current Affairs, APTN
The APTN decision to promote a culture of mentoring, especially for
Aboriginal People in senior management roles, is wise. Mentoring is
the only sensible course of action for many other companies in our industry
as well. It is also counter-intuitive to how most of us think of our
careers. Read more
You Can Do It! - by Beatrix Dart
"Are you afraid of Math? Do you think business education is something
for guys who want to make lots of money at Wall Street? Does Accounting
look scary to you? You are not alone! Unfortunately, many women still
consider a degree in business education as a trip into a male-dominated
world, which requires lots of quantitative brain power. However, you
might be missing out…" Read
more [PDF]
Stop The Corporate Fire Engine I Want To Get Off!
- by Lynn Harris & Jeff Arnold – In Transition Consulting
"The VP Sales closed her office door and sank into her chair. For the
first time this year she had time to think and plan what she wanted
to achieve over the next 12 months. She was looking forward to working
on what she wanted to create, rather than frantically solving the many
problems that came her way every day." Read
more [PDF]
Managing Transition with CWC
This is a time of transition, both for the industry itself and for the
people who work in it. Writer Jane Christmas offers insights on career
transitions and how to use contacts and how CWC can help you to survive
and flourish in uncertain times. Read
the article [PDF]
The Extra-Innings Job Search
Unemployed for a long stretch? You'll need different strategies than
if you've been sitting on the sidelines for just a few months. Read
the article
Iq - INSEAD QUARTERLY Newsletter, Issue 10, March-May 2005: Gender Diversity
"The Business case / What business schools can do / Models for the future..."
Read
more
For women, a failure to negotiate - by Pallavi Gogoi
– BusinessWeek
"Their salaries may lag behind their male counterparts' because of poor
bargaining skills. Here's how to correct that." Read
more [PDF]
Stars should stop and think before shooting for
the top - by Barbara Moses
"So you're a star at your job. Does that also make you management material?
That's a question many of us must ponder as we consider our own career
paths and look at the progression of people around us." Read
more [PDF]
Getting to the top - by Virginia Galt - The Globe
and Mail
"Women's advancement has faltered, new report finds, despite compelling
reasons why companies should fix the imbalance in executive ranks,..."
Read more
[PDF]
Canadian Women in Communications - Power Hour, by
Isabelle Bassett
"Thank you, Dennie, for your warm welcome. I'm delighted to be here
this evening to help Canadian Women in Communications re-launch the
Power Hour,..." Read
more [PDF]
So, you've been downsized? Now what are you supposed
to do with your company pension?
"When you joined Nortel 10 years ago, you thought..."This is great!
It's a big company, I'm ambitious...I'll be here until retirement."
I have no doubt that during the glory years when the shares..." Read
more [PDF]
STEPHANIE MACKENDRICK - BROADCAST DIALOGUE |
"The Digi-verse"
"One of the challenges for any organization is to keep up with
the times.
The trick is to be able to adapt..."
Read more [PDF]
"Women CEOs on the rise, Arab women on the
move"
"Progress, like success, is relative and March brought good hopeful
news from two very different worlds in terms of change for women..."
Read more
[PDF]
"Change Worth Celebrating"
"Change is a peculiar beast. On one hand, it can move with such
speed that we are left feeling confused and overwhelmed..." Read
more [PDF]
“The Art of Communication”
"Looking into the future is an interesting exercise, by turns intimidating,
unsettling, and always complicated...." Read
more [PDF]
“Secret Decoder Ring”
"I recently read an article in one of Canada’s national newspapers
offering advice about overcoming barriers of exclusion to advance in
your career..... " Read
more [PDF]
“Dispatches from Blackberry Nation”
"Pity poor Miss Manners. We all know that technology has enabled
us to stay in closer touch.... " Read
more [PDF]
“The Known Network”
"It’s always difficult to strike a balance between sticking to
what you know and are comfortable with versus trying different things
and stretching." Read
more [PDF]
“Defining Success”
"Statistics tell us that women are under-represented at senior levels
in business. And studies show that women are stalled in their efforts
to move up the corporate ladder." Read
more [PDF]
“Eternel Vigilance and the Price of Progress”
"People sometimes ask if an organization like CWC is really needed these
days. Compared to two decades ago, women are everywhere." Read
more [PDF]
“It's Not Just the Players Who Matter...”
"While reading an article about how boys are discriminated against in
elementary schools, I thought about how the rules of the game really
can determine so much of the outcome,..." Read
more [PDF]
“A Brilliant Strategy - Laziness”
"It's an accepted understanding that we equate laziness with poor prospects
of success. It's the early bird/eager beaver and all those other hopelessly
chipper animals who have always had the inside track in life." Read
more [PDF]
“Downing Street Adopts the Gold Standard”
"As we wrestle with technological change, contemplate regulatory reform,
try to think locally and act globally,..." Read
more [PDF]
“Rewarding Risk”
"The corporate scandals that have spread like a bad rash have left many
shareholders and pundits alike feeling like the victims of a Bay Street
(or Wall Street) version of Punked!, the TV show that plays nasty tricks
on celebrities,..." Read
more [PDF]
“Sexist Pigs - Sexist Sows”
"Sexist pig: n. A filthy, porcine creature who habitually uses innuendo,
graphically inappropriate metaphors and suggestive comments to intimidate
and otherwise discomfit those of the opposite sex. A real boar." Read
more [PDF]
“Small Steps, Big Change”
"I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. And it’s not because
I’ve been inundated recently with spam asking me if I’ve
got enough viagra on hand”." Read
more [PDF]
“Hairy-Chested Notions of How Companies Function”
"Two items passed my desk recently regarding women in the executive
ranks. The first was a study from Catalyst, called “The Bottom
Line, Connecting Corporate Performance and Gender Diversity”,"
Read
more [PDF]
Recognize This!
"While passing a pleasant and semi-tropical Christmas holiday this year
in Toronto, my mind occasionally drifted to thoughts of work, despite
my best efforts to remain relentlessly cocooned and unoccupied." Read
more [PDF]
The New Success
"It seems to me that the definition of success has changed radically
over the past decade or two." Read
more [PDF]
Send Your CEO To Summer Camp
"As a parent, the last thing you want is a call from your child’s
school. Worse yet is a call from your child’s summer camp, because
it’s gotta be something you don’t want to hear about since
they are not in the habit of calling unless they really have to…"
Read
more [PDF]
Women on Boards: Benchmarks, Not Quotas
"Whenever quotas are mentionned, I break out in a rash. I hate the idea
of quotas. They're arbitrary, inflexible and prone to causing a backlash
that can be almost as destructive as the problem the quota is supposed
to fix..." Read
more [PDF]
Succeeding in a Complicated World
"We have lots of choices today. We’ve come a long way from the
days when if your father was the goldsmith, you became a goldsmith.
If you were a girl, you knew that you should aspire to marriage and
motherhood. Whether you liked your prescribed fate or not,..." Read
more [PDF]
The Old Boys Had It (Mostly) Right
"The Old Boys Network - it's a term of disdain and contempt for many
women who have felt the sting of its rejection or exclusion,..." Read
more [PDF]
A Phantom Menace? Not Yet.
"One of the things I am asked about, particularly by young women, is
why is there any need to have an association to support the advancement
of women in the communications industry?..." Read
more [PDF]
It's Amazing What You Can Do in an Hour. The Story
of CWC's Power Hour
"I was reading an article the other day written by a woman who was exasperated
by networking..." Read
more [PDF]
Rocky Mountain High
"At first, I thought that it might have been the thin air. After all,
Banff is some 4,500 feet above sea level,..." Read
more [PDF]
What's that you say?
"I get peeved when I read business books, articles or even job ads and
find that I need an interpreter to wade through the latest slew of impenetrable
jargon. These "words-du-jour"..." Read
more [PDF]
What is Balance, Anyway?
"A recent conversation reminded me how much I enjoy talking with CTV
President Trina McQueen - she's never predictable, always offering her
views in a concise, yet passionate, manner..." Read
more [PDF]
We All Need to Be Bilingual
"In our society, I believe we've come to the point where we all need
to be bilingual, and furthermore, that it is essential to business that
we do so..." Read
more [PDF]
Heritage Minister talks with friends in Toronto
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