Unwritten Rules for Women in the Workplace

Kudos to Essence for its recent blog on the unwritten rules for women in the workplace by Ann Daly.  We can all relate to these rules whether we agree with them or not.  More often than not the simple fact that you’re a woman in the workplace means you’re treated differently than your male counterparts. [...]

Grammar Matters: Everyone Needs There Own Farecard

Lucky for this station manager, a signature wasn’t required.  No such luck for us at work with emails, letters, and other documents.  Grammar does matter.  People do make judgment calls based on our written word.  There, their, and they’re. Use there when referring to a place, whether concrete (“over there by the building”) or more [...]

Back to Work: Advancing (or Keeping Pace) in Your Career

Whether you love your J-O-B or not, you owe it to yourself to be the best at it until something better comes along (which may take even longer in this economy!). And who knows, becoming better at it may make you enjoy your job better. Some tips and techniques to get better at the game. [...]

Tightening Up the Resume for 2010

Wondering what you should be spending your time off on? How about getting your resume in order for a brand new year.  New year, new opportunities.  At least that is our prayer.  But new opportunities require preparation.  If someone called you up right now and says they’ve forwarded your name for new job opportunity, would [...]

Be More Productive

Heather Huhman of Washington wakes up just after 4:00 a.m. and hits the gym. Before Ms. Huhman walks into her office at a national health-care association, she writes a column for local news site Examiner.com. It’s something the 27-year-old does to help build her platform as a career expert — a necessity for the success [...]

Understanding LinkedIn

I remember signing up for LinkedIn.  I filled in my biographical and career information.  I joined a couple of networks, made “connections” with a few people I knew.   And then I didn’t log in again for almost six months.  After the initial “something new” it seemed to be overwhelming to navigate.  My social networking dance [...]

Unconscious Side of Racism

I stumbled upon Race Talk, the recently relaunched blog and online magazine of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.  The site features articles by authors, advocates, social justice leaders, and journalists on gender and equity issues in the US and globally. Of note, an article by contributor John A. Powell on understanding [...]

Workplace Gaffes aka Did I Pronounce That Correctly?

How apropos! I may have already been guilty this week. I just downloaded a new Dictionary.com Blackberry App (it’s free by the way, and no I’m not getting paid for this, though I would like a shiny new Blackberry for Christmas). Anyway, the app has some great features including a searchable dictionary, thesaurus, words of [...]

Tips on Writing Business Emails

Email is the most often used method of business communications today but for many it’s the least productive because they have no idea of how to compose an effective business email. Most business people really don’t understand the dos and don’ts of composing a business email. Fill in the subject line: The first step in [...]

Helmets & Heels: 4th Quarter – Game Time

blackgirlgrown is proud to feature the final post in a 4-part series of guest posts from Shavannia Williams of the SW Group. The NFL season is 17 weeks long.  Each team plays 16 games and has one week off, called a “Bye.”  So at week 12, we are approaching the last quarter of the regular [...]

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