Invent Your Future for Women

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Check out Invent Your Future, a women’s conference at Microsoft’s Mountain View offices this week on February 26 and February 27th. You can register here. Conference agenda here.

They plan to cover everything from negotiations, power & authority to innovation and retaining talent and getting funding for your own idea or business.

They’ll run through factors most important to banks, seed round investors and government agencies when evaluating potential investments.

Another interesting topic will include a look at the 10 Behaviors that Undermine Clout — and the 10 that Add Clout. The goal is to discover why many smart, talented women are not put in positions of power even if they deserve to be.

And on negotiations (one of my favorites), they’ll explore ways in which we (as women) handicap our own success in negotiations because of ideas and perspectives that are not true.

How about issues such as: who should make the first offer? honesty as the best policy, room at the bargaining table for emotions and accepting offers. What are the best practices that American companies can use to retain women as they face an international war for talent?  And that’s just Day 1.

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