Executive Coach Ora Schtull Writes about Building Leadership Skills in her New Book, "The Glass Elevator: A Guide to Leadership Presence for Women on the Rise."

Whether you believe a glass ceiling exists in your workplace or not, breaking through glass is dangerous business. Executive Coach Ora Shtull believes there’s a better way for smart and savvy women to get where they want to go. As she shares in her book, The Glass Elevator: A Guide to Leadership Presence for Women on the Rise (published by 85 Broads), every woman can achieve her vision of success by powering up the "9 must-have skills of Leadership Presence" and elevating herself.

One of note is “Communicate with Oomph.” In "The Glass Elevator", Ora addresses the challenge many women face in speaking up at meetings as actively as their male peers. She urges women to make a commitment to speak up at every meeting, giving them
tangible ideas and formulas to do so easily. One is to simply ask a strategic question that addresses the problems or solutions that are so often the purview of meetings. In terms of the problem, ask: How bad is it? How much exactly do we stand to lose? What’s the downside of doing nothing? In terms of the proposed solution, ask: What will we gain? What will we save? With a simple strategic question, you become valued as a professional invested in the overriding issues of your firm and as a woman on your way up. Read more of what Ora has to say in her book...