Emerson Exchange 365

21 Jan 2020

How to Address the Biggest Time-Wasters on the Job and Start Your Year Productively

We’ve all been there. You work a full eight hours, only to realize you really haven't accomplished anything of value. Where does the time go? There’s no shortage of potential time-wasters in a traditional workplace. Identifying time-wast...

Sarah Small

25 Nov 2019

Recruiting Millennials in the Age of Technology Disruption

Takeaways from Presentation by Emily Thomas, Emerson Strategic Analyst WE19 Conference in Anaheim, CA on Nov 7, 2019 Last week many members of Emerson’s Women in STEM Employee Resource Group (ERG) were able to participate in the Society of...

Rachelle McWright

12 Nov 2019

Using Authenticity as Your Strategic Advantage: A Story

Prior to this year’s Emerson Global User’s Exchange, I was part of an awesome team of women that produces our popular Women in Innovation Luncheon. This year, our keynote speaker was the passionate, driven and undeniably accomplished, Dr....

Sandra Cooke

22 Oct 2019

It’s Never Too Late to Follow your Dreams – How I Embraced my Identity as an “Adult Learner”

"You're too old." "It's too late in your career." "It's not a good investment." Just over a year ago, I left these hesitations and harsh criticisms behind and I’m now pursuing a M.S. in the Global Energy Management (GEM) program at the Un...

Scott Gilley

29 Aug 2019

How Public Speaking Training Can Help Advance Your Career

I still remember the day vividly in 1989 when it happened. I was standing with four others in a large lecture hall, staring at my expectant audience. We were delivering our capstone project presentation for our master’s degree program at Santa ...

Emilee (Bannister) Cook

13 Aug 2019

5 Steps to Effectively Create, Share and Evangelize Your Vision

In the past year, I have personally experienced the power “visioning” concept. I’m not referring to company vision statements or what they teach you in MBA or other professional development programs. I’m speaking about the pow...

Tatiana Arauz

31 Jul 2019

Costa Rica to the US: 5 Tips To Take Home While Working Abroad

I am from Costa Rica , a tiny, beautiful country located in Central America. When I’m home, I can hop into a car and venture to see mountains, beaches, volcanos or waterfalls in only a few hours. There is beauty everywhere the eye can see. One p...

Kishia Haberle

25 Jun 2019

Juggling in your Circus: The Art Form of Balance

Two and a half years into working for Emerson, I was selected to attend a year-long Global Leadership development training program and received a sponsorship to obtain my Executive MBA. This was under the caveat of maintaining my day job, which often...

Cliff Kolence

6 Jun 2019

4 Daily Practices to Build Community into a Multigenerational Workforce

Across the United States, for the first time in modern history, workplace demographics now span four generations, meaning that 20-year-old new hires can find themselves working side-by-side with colleagues who are older than they are by 50 years, or ...

Andrea Tung

21 May 2019

How to Navigate Various Maps to Leadership & Find Inspiration throughout your Career

It’s not uncommon to meet people at Emerson that have been with the company 10, 20 and even 30 years! We are a company that seeks to retain great employees and help them carve out a lifelong careers. As the Austin office continues to expand, it...

Dianne Eldridge

9 May 2019

Three Generations of Women Engineers: A 2019 Mother's Day Reflection

2019 marks the 20th year of my mom’s passing. &n...

Vicki Dawkins

30 Apr 2019

Embracing International Assignments

In my first Women in STEM blog, I wrote about Laying the Groundwork for an International Assignment. Blog "Part Two," is about embracing the opportunity to try out an entirely different part of the world – Asia. By 2015, I had w...

Aaron Crews

16 Apr 2019

3 Superpowers to Boost Your Career

Why do some people get opportunities in their career, while others don’t? Have you had situations where you’re doing GREAT work, but these opportunities for growth don’t seem to come your way? Why? The inclination is to say tha...

Laurel Sagartz

2 Apr 2019

How Women Rise: Overcoming Three Habits that can Work Against Us

In 2015, I moved back to St. Louis after traveling for work for nearly 6 years. After working at customer sites as an engineer for varied projects, I was unsure how I was going to settle back into an office environment, but was willing to give it a t...

candyA

20 Mar 2019

Four Myths about Being an IT Professional

Growing up, I always had access to a computer and the internet. This is not surprising, considering my dad was (and still is) a programmer who enjoyed playing games, surfing AOL and using Microsoft FrontPage to create websites as much as my...

Erin Meehan

6 Mar 2019

Getting Involved: Why I Joined an Employee Resource Group...

I began my career with Emerson in mid-September when I moved to a suburb of St. Louis to begin my career in business development in an office. I came from the Chicago area where I worked at a job that was 100% remote, so I expected there might b...

Vicki Dawkins

19 Feb 2019

Laying the Groundwork for an International Assignment - Part 1: Eastern Europe

Earlier in my career, when I heard about colleagues who were starting an international assignment, I thought to myself, “What an awesome opportunity,” and also, “I wonder how that decision was made?” I always thought it ...

Alyssa Ortiz

12 Feb 2019

Beyond The Degree: What I’ve Learned From Strong, Successful Female Leaders In My Career

In college, I dreamed about having a cool office space, designer briefcase and that I, as a woman in charge, would own the room as soon I walked into a meeting. Somehow, everything would work out in my favor the day after graduation. My degree would ...

Selena Rezvani

23 Jan 2019

Want to Reinvent Yourself in 2019? A Stretch Assignment May Be the Answer

We’ve all had those stalled career moments. Maybe you’re feeling like you’re not progressing. Perhaps you’re not challenged enough by your work. Maybe it feels like you’ve maximized the opportunities available to you. Wh...

Rachelle McWright

8 Jan 2019

Resolve to End Gender Discrimination & Improve Gender Equity in 2019...

Dr. Mikki Hebl began her collegiate career pursuing pre-med but was so inspired by female pioneers like Gloria Steinem and Ruth Bader Ginsburg who advocate for the reduction of gender and other social inequities, that she chose to pursue a different ...

Lauren Prince

19 Dec 2018

How a Summer Internship Gave Me Confidence as a Female Engineer and Technologist

This year is my senior year in Chemical Engineering and though I’m still a student, I know that STEM is still a largely male-dominated career field. This might come as a surprise to some due to the continued publicized progressiveness of t...

Lauren Baker

4 Dec 2018

The 4 P’s of Tackling the Transition: How to Ramp Up Quickly in Your New Role

I recently took on a new role in a new business. I knew a handful of my new colleagues through my involvement in Emerson's Women in STEM group, but otherwise I stepped into an entirely new world. A world where I had little familiarity with the or...

Melissa Maine

20 Nov 2018

How a Women's Conference Made Me Feel Like a Person

I was recently offered the opportunity to attend the Texas Conference for Women in Austin, TX. I love the influx of motivation that comes with attending conferences and I expected to be even more inspired given the emphasis on women’s empowerme...

Cherra Meloy

7 Nov 2018

Dual Career Families – How We Make It Work

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Society of Women in Engineering’s WE18 conference in Minneapolis. This is the world’s largest conference for female engineers with close to 14,000 in attendance this year! It ...

Stephanie Hajducek

23 Oct 2018

How I Learned to Be Someone I Never Thought I Could Be

My family and I recently relocated for my husband’s new job. On my commute to work I pass under a well-known bridge in Houston that is covered in graffiti art. The artwork that resonates most with me reads, “Be Someone.” I view it a...