How to incorporate the newest fashion trends into your existing wardrobe

By Annette Richmond

Fall is here, and with it comes fall fashion. Magazine pages are filled with striking images of women wearing the latest designs. But what’s an average woman to do? What’s the best way to incorporate the latest trends into an existing wardrobe? And how can one accomplish that on a budget?

To get the answers to these questions, I contacted image experts from across the country. Here’s what they had to say.

While the top trends mentioned by the experts varied a bit, the clear winner mentioned by almost all was animal prints, namely leopard. An overall compilation of our expert’s picks as the top trends for fall 2010 included:

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Looking at the five styles of handling conflict

How do you get along with your co-workers? How about with your boss? Developing good working relationships is one of the greatest workplace challenges.

Conflict doesn’t necessarily mean an out and out fight. Consider things like working as part of a team. Are you the cooperative person who makes sure that everyone is heard or are you the assertive type focused on making sure that your idea is the one that comes to fruition? Your answer says a lot about your preferred conflict-handling style.

There are five ways that people handle conflict, According to Kenneth W. Thomas and Ralph H. Kilmann, creators of the Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument® (TKI). While everyone uses more than one style, depending on the situation, most of us favor one style over the others.

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Despite some inroads women still do not have an equal playing field

By Annette Richmond

It’s common knowledge that most women make less money than men. Unfortunately, this sometimes happens even when they are working in the same profession. Sadly, it also appears that despite an increased integration of “male” and “female” occupations in 1970’s and 1980’s, women’s progress stalled in the mid 1990’s, according to a briefing paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

There has been some progress over the last few decades. For example, in 1972 only 4 percent of lawyers were women, compared to 32.2 percent in 2009. Still while women have made some strides into C-level positions, only 25 percent or less of CEO’s are women. And some fields have remained virtually the same: 97.6 percent of nurses were female in 1972 compared to 92 percent in 2009.

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Carole Martin is a coach with over 18 years in Human Resources Management. She is an acknowledged expert in the use of behavioral interviewing techniques.

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Style expert Bridgette Raes is the author of Style Rx: Dressing the Body You Have to Create the Body You Want and the president of the NYC based style consulting company for women, Bridgette Raes Style Group.

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Annemarie Cross is a multi-award winning, triple certified Professional Resume Writer, Career Management Specialist, Speaker, and Author of 10 key steps to Ace that Interview!

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Annette Richmond, MA, is founder and editor of career-intelligence.com and The Career Intelligencer. She is author of several publications, ebooks and interactive workbooks on career management.

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