There are many woes that face women managers today, but below are the ones often complained about by employees and how you as a manager can resolve them.

Untapped Professional Potential  Don't be guilty of negating the wealth of brainpower you have on hand.  Ignore the old myth there's no time to brainstorm for solutions.  If you don't give time and attention to problems now, then you'll regret the time you spend on them later.  It was secretary Bette Nesmith Graham who invented liquid paper after many attempts at erasing and improving typed copy.  Keep your eyes and ears open for contributions from all corners and don't be in a hurry to dismiss ideas as unnecesssary or impossible.

Unmotivated to Inspire Peak Performance  Not every job can offer exciting challenges and innovative stimulation.  It can be difficult to ask those you work with to bear down and focus on a needed, but menial task, especially when you know they're...

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Katherine is a division head for two departments of a large retail chain.  She supervises the managers for these two departments and her door is always open for any of the employees within these departments.  She occasionally hears the concerns of her employees about their job security.  How can she put her employees at ease, yet prepare them for possible layoffs in a downturned economy?

• What should she and the company communicate or disclose to it's members and should it be done in meeting(s) or an employee letter? 
• What responsibility does she have for helping to prepare her division for possible layoff?
• What can she do to soothe the concerns and prepare  those who would stay, but possibly be required to take on more responsibility?

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Women make better managers, yet there are two areas they can improve in.  See the short article and survey results at the Financial Post site: Women Are Better Managers

The Exceptional Manager book is written by the AIM Senior Fellows and is the latest thinking on how management practices can improve international economic performances.  It focuses on employment relations, managing innovation, measuring performance, organizational learning, decision-making, time management and strategy.Click here for book.

The Family Manager Takes Charge: Getting on the Fast Track to a Happy and Organized Home, Kathy Peel, 2003.  She has a wide selection of useful home management books at Amazon.

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What else are nylon stockings good for? 

If you're going on a trip you may roll your clothes to fit into your luggage, but by stuffing the rolled clothes into precut old stockings, you can keep them from unrolling.  

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"We simply spend too much time and have too much psychic and and emotional energy invested in the workplace for us to declare that it is a spiritual desert bereft of life-giving water."   
~ Poet, David Whyte