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LEARN WITH FORTé
Wondering how to make the most of your Forté Professional Membership? Learn with Forté is your go-to guide for exploring our most popular resources—articles, videos, and downloadable tools—on topics that matter to you.
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Storytelling
Learn how to tell your career story with confidence, from crafting your elevator pitch to sharing your experiences and building your personal brand. -
Decision Making
Get better at making the call. Explore tools and resources to help you size up a decision, widen your options, understand your decision-making style, make the case for your choice, and learn from what happens next. -
NEGOTIATING
Negotiation remains one of our most requested topics — from website searches to packed sessions at conferences and workshops. But we know your time is limited, so we’ve gathered top Forté resources to help you sharpen your negotiation skills without reading a full book.
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Networking
Rethink what networking means. If you’ve ever felt stuck or unsure about where to start with networking, you’re not alone. -
Public Speaking
Develop the confidence and control to speak with purpose, connect with your audience, and make your message land. -
Executive Presence
At its core, executive presence is about your ability to influence others, inspire confidence, and command a room. We love how FranklinCovey sums it up—as a blend of confidence, empathy, and authenticity. Sounds simple, right? But in practice, executive presence can feel abstract and subjective. That’s where your Forté membership comes in handy.
Forté Signals
Forté Signals explores how modern careers actually move, through both the signals people send and the ones they need to recognize in other people, organizations, and professional environments. This collection brings together Forté insights on visibility, credibility, legibility, and the hidden dynamics that shape career decisions and opportunities.
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If It Can Happen to Grace Hopper…
On October 13, two weeks before it was set to take place, AnitaB.org announced that the 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration was canceled. My immediate reaction: What the heck is happening in our world? And I’m guessing I wasn’t the only one. Grace Hopper isn’t a small conference that couldn’t find its audience. It’s well-known as one of […]
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The Expectations You Didn’t Know You Had
My sister was going through old emails this week and sent me something I wrote in 2013. I had absolutely no memory of it. Apparently, I used to write a blog for my colleagues when I worked at GMAC. Once she sent it to me, I started to vaguely remember writing some of them. […]
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When Are You Supposed to Be Bad at Something?
During a recent Forté Partner Advisory Council conversation about early career talent, someone said something that has been living rent-free in my head for the last week. When talking about the pressures facing today’s college graduates in the job market, someone said, it can really feel as though failure isn’t an option. It made me […]
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Nice Hat. Hope It Doesn’t Become a Tattoo.
My colleague Katie Stanfield recently wrote about a well-known decision-making framework that asks you to categorize a decision before you make it: Is it a hat, a haircut or a tattoo? A hat is easy to reverse. Don’t like it? Take it off. A haircut takes longer to undo, but eventually it grows out. A […]
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The Hidden Rules of Work Might Not Be Rules After All
You figure out pretty early in your career that work has a whole set of rules nobody actually explains to you. Nobody tells you exactly how much you can push back before you’re labeled “difficult.” Or when you’re being asked for an honest opinion as in what do you really think? versus an “honest” opinion […]
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Reviews of Someone Else’s Future
There should be a Yelp for career decisions. There isn’t. Five stars: Took the promotion. Would absolutely do again. Four stars: Changed industries. Rocky start, solid outcome. One star: “Follow your passion.” Passion did not cover rent. No such site exists, so we piece one together ourselves. Rankings. Reddit threads. LinkedIn posts. Salary reports. Alumni […]
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Feedback, Part II: Why Not Me?
Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself at work wondering: Why not me? Maybe it was during a promotion cycle and someone else got the role you thought you were in line for. Maybe it was when you were certain you’d be sent to lead the project abroad, only to watch the opportunity go […]
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Work Is Weirdly Unscored
Even at this point in my career, I often find myself wishing there were a dashboard for my career. Not a performance review. Not a five-point rating scale. An actual dashboard. Like the Canvas portal my daughter checked daily during undergrad. SUBJECT GRADE Respect from colleagues 87 Chances of receiving a meaningful raise this year […]
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The Myth Of The Career Ladder
A colleague of mine said something the other day that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. We were talking about career ladders, the metaphor, the model, the whole idea, and she paused and said: Why did we all assume the ladder went up? I mean, what are ladders for, other than to get […]
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The Graduation Speech I Wasn’t Asked to Give
This is the time of year when people who are famous, accomplished, or both get invited to stand in front of a room full of graduating students and say something memorable. Graduation speeches are supposed to be inspirational. They are meant to give you good advice. And they are supposed to send you out the […]
