Advancing Your Own Career
You’ve got big plans for your career. Use our tools to help you get there faster. They’re based on our years of experience learning what strategies work to accelerate your path to success.
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Five Things To Say Instead Of “Sorry” (Blog Post)
Here’s a quick list of some common reasons women are quick to say “sorry”—and five things we could be saying instead!
Millennial Voices: You Can’t Get What You Don’t Ask For (Blog Post)
Most people don’t exactly live by the phrases they saw on inspirational posters in their ninth grade classrooms. But as someone who has never been afraid to ask questions (how else are you going to learn anything?), I think some of these corny sayings actually apply to real life a lot more often than we think.
I Don’t Lack Ambition (Blog Post)
Saying that ambition comes in one size only—or that it means a burning desire to reach the very top of your company—is limiting. Not everyone can be on the fast-track to be CEO.
How To Negotiate Your Salary Like A Boss (Blog Post)
You’ll never know unless you ask!
Women On Boards Series: Make Your Board Resume Stand Out From The Crowd (Blog Post)
Sarah tells us more of what she’s learned, and what she’s sharing with Sandra about how crucial it is to make your board resume stand out from the crowd.
Coaches, Mentors, and Sponsors: Understanding the Differences (Infographic)
You can't get ahead without help from other people. Find out how different people can help in different ways.
Catalyst Partners with edX to Offer Online Leadership Courses (Media Release)
Catalyst, the leading global nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing women and business, announced that it is building online courses and training programs dedicated to building strong, inclusive leaders and high-performing teams globally in partnership with edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Career Pathways 1: Assessing Your Career Advancement Strategies (Tool)
This first tool provides interactive self-assessments designed to help you develop a greater understanding of your current career advancement strategies.
Career Pathways 2: Building Workplace Relationship Self-Awareness (Tool)
This second tool provides interactive self-assessments to help you gain a better understanding of how key workplace relationships and interactions can benefit your career.
Career Pathways 3: Applying Proven Career Advancement Techniques (Tool)
This third tool in the Career Pathways Toolkit includes self-guided activities designed to help you develop or redesign your career advancement action plan.
Good Intentions, Imperfect Execution? Women Get Fewer of the “Hot Jobs” Needed to Advance (Report)
This report examines the impact of leadership development—both formal programs and on-the-job experiences—on high potentials' career advancement.
The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline
2009 - 2015 Catalyst's longitudinal project, The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the…
High Potentials in the Pipeline: Leaders Pay It Forward (Report)
This report reveals that high potentials who have received career development are now “paying it forward” and developing others.
Navigating Organizational Cultures: A Guide for Diverse Women and Their Managers (Report)
Diversity and inclusion programs have been in place in organizations for some time, these programs have not been completely successful at eliminating bias.
The Myth of the Ideal Worker: Does Doing All the Right Things Really Get Women Ahead? (Report)
This report includes a series of questions for the reader to reflect about why disparities in career advancement may persist.
Building Trust Between Managers & Diverse Women Direct Reports: Recommendations for HR, Managers, and Individuals (Tool)
This tool can help you leverage diverse working relationships within your organization.
Building Trust Between Managers and Diverse Women Direct Reports (Report)
Trust between managers and direct reports is essential to forming productive workplace relationships.
Unwritten Rules
2008 - 2011 Advancing in business is often as much about learning and playing by the rules as it is…
Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe (Appendix)
This is the appendix to Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe.
Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe (Report)
This report examines Europeans' perceptions of unwritten rules as well as how they learned to navigate these rules.