Kathleen Schulweis
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Executive Coach. Communication Skills and Training Expert

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- Professional and Executive Coaching, Speaker, Author
She is the founding President of the Southern Califo ia Chapter of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (1999 - 2001) - the leading organization for female entrepreneurs in high growth technology and life science companies. During her term as President, FWE established a stronghold in Southern Califo ia and formed three separate organizations – Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego County. Its members raised over $600,000,000 (yes, 600 million dollars) during that time.
Kathleen Schulweis is the founding Director of the Califo ia Institute of Technology, Caltech Women's Center, where she worked for seven years to protect and advance the rights of female scientists. While at Caltech she formed the Program for Women Entrepreneurs, a project designed to help facilitate technology transfer for women scientists and to empower them to choose entrepreneurship as a career. In the mid-1990’s Schulweis was a co-investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to develop a set of studying images of female scientists at work and in life.
Prior to her stint at Caltech she empowered women with special programs, services, and policy development at the University of Southern Califo ia and at the University of Califo ia, Los Angeles.
Kathleen Schulweis earned her coaching certifications at the Coaches Training Institute, considered to be the Harvard of coaching schools, her Professional Certified Coaching Certification through the International Coaching Federation-the leading certifying organization in the world, her graduate degrees in sociology at the venerable UCLA and her Certificate in Business Management Effectiveness at the University of Southern Califo ia (go Trojans), all while happily married to her life partner Dr. Seth Schulweis and mothering her three children and various pets.
Clients include professionals, business consultants and coaches, non-profit founders, and scientists and researchers who are either launching or growing their businesses. Clients typically double their income and personal satisfaction once they work with her.
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Confidence Building Motivation and Goals
How do you motivate yourself for achievement? - Are you driven by deadlines? - How about gut-wrenching fear? - Positive reinforcement? - Team support? - Shame? Reward? Do-or Die self-confidence? Knowing what motivates you helps you to achieve your goals. That is, if you know your goals. What if you want to lose 10 pounds in 90 days because you have to go to your high school reunion? That’s a goal. But, what’s the motivation? Are you doing this so you can look great and show off in front of that boy who jilted you at the senior prom?
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Why you MUST be Assertive with Any Boss but Especially a Workplace Bully Boss
According to researchers at Northweste University there may be no such things as a sensitive boss. It seems insensitivity is to power as empathy is to powerlessness. Frankly, the powerful just don’t ‘give a damn’. The powerful are busy taking risks, pushing others to excellence, and having the buck stop at their desk. These findings have serious implications for anyone trying to influence someone in power since suggestions for influencing others include gentle and sensitive negotiation, reasoning, counter suggestions, and trying to ‘massage’ the relationship.
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Seven Steps for Surviving (and Maybe Thriving) in a Tough Workplace
Okay, you’re struggling, contemplating things that will land you in jail, wishing you could be anywhere but around your caustic, obnoxious, and maybe bullying boss or colleague, and yet, you stay. Why do you stay? Most reasons people stay in such environments are economic but also your identity-who are you without work, convenience-family-it’s hard to imagine leaving a city where you have deep roots, and stubbornness-you plan to outlive and out-advance your hell-of-a situation. So, you stay, and stay and stay even as you pay a huge price.
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Business Building Blunders and How to AVOID Them
People are starting businesses every day. In record numbers, hundreds nay thousands, are taking the plunge. And the bad news is 8 out of 10 will FAIL within the first year. And of those who survive 80% will be out of business within 5 years. And the failures have less to do with $$ than with attitude and behavior. How can you avoid crashing your dreams of independence and financial success? There are some standard mistakes that will sink your ship and leave you to the ‘sharks’. That said, here is my list of top mistakes business builders make and ways to avoid them.
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Getting Unstuck & Removing Your Barriers to Success: Why You Need Professional Executive Coaching
Hello, I am Kathleen Schulweis, professional certified co-active coach and owner of http://www.confidenceconnections.com, a coaching and training organization. I am an executive coach with over 25 years of experience helping professionals achieve their personal and career goals working in such august institutions as UCLA, University of Southern Califo ia, and Califo ia Institute of Technology.
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Waging a Five Step Strategic Counter-Offensive to Workplace Bullying
When I am at a meeting and ask, ‘Who in the room has been bullied at work?’ 50% raise hands; adding, ‘Who know someone who has been bullied?’ it’s 100%. Bullies use threats, intimidation, and humiliation to control their targets. Targets of bullying become sick, lose confidence, and forfeit their career to escape. Bullies are rewarded with the personal satisfaction of hurting others. But sometimes there is more to bullying than hurt. Sometimes bullying has a huge reward attached to it. Sometimes bullying is about taking over someone’s career.
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Professional Business Net-Working: 10 Guideposts for Success
Like it or not, meeting people face-to-face is a grand way to grow your business. Professionals net-work all the time getting to know one another and thus creating trust. I regularly receive referrals from my friends and acquaintances in all my social networks. That happens because they know what I do and they know me. And likewise, I know them and what they do so I can easily make excellent referrals. And, as a professional executive coach I have to have credible professionals in my arsenal.
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Problems And Solutions
Nearly 70% of executives of fortune 500 companies engage the services of an executive coach; 50% of CEO’s in the healthcare industry have professional coaches and 86% believe they should have one. Why do these leaders have executive coaching? What do they know to be true about the power of executive coaching? They know that an executive coach makes all the difference. • An executive coach provides perspective, clarity, confidentiality, and analysis . • An executive coach gives a leader the edge on management, change , and career success.
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Carts and Horses: What Order are Yours In? Business Development 101
One thing about business development I know to be true is carts and horses. Yes, that’s right carts and horses. More often I am finding new and seasoned entrepreneurs putting their carts before their horses. When we put our carts before our horses, we cannot expect to move forward. First of all the horse is very confused and second, horses are used to pulling rather than pushing. How do I see this cart/horse problem? Well, how about starting a business without having any financial management tools in place? I wonder: How can you know how your business is doing?
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Eight Tips for Supporting your Sales Person or Sales Team
If you are in the unenviable position of leading a sales team to victory, there are a few things you can do that can make all the difference for them. When working with sales managers and new businesses, I observe and evaluate before I start any training. And, what I have seen in my practice would make any good motivator cringe with fear. It is so easy to de-motivate your team and so hard to win back their trust and loyalty.
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5 Steps to the Art of a Confident Selling Mindset for Professionals: How to help your potential clients become your clients
Are you selling yourself? Then you’re in some trouble. More and more personal services are being viewed as commodities. Our work, our intellectual property, and our gifts to the world are now widgets to be compared with other widgets and purchased at the lowest possible price. If we’re going to move ourselves from commodity back to professional, we’re going to have to learn to sell without selling; to master the art of a confident selling mindset, that is, a mindset of abundance coupled with some concrete strategies for success.
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More on Bullying…What to do when you’re Living or Working in Hades
Bullies drain you with threats, and unrealistic or unreasonable demands and makes you feel sick and afraid all the time. Unless you do something productive, drain your life force as we imagine a vampire might. Living or working with a bully vampire is a problem that’s bigger than you are, so be kind to yourself but start planning a new life. Here are some suggestions: • Move on. Save your life, your health, and your self-esteem.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Kathleen Schulweis
"The greatest achievements where at first, and for some time, dreams." James Allen
"Tomorow is often the businest day of the year." Spanish Proverb "Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort." Theodore Roosevelt"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves…the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Contacting Kathleen Schulweis
Website: http://www.confidenceconnections.com
Email: kschulweis@gmail.com