Posts Tagged ‘Gender Strategy’
Why Businesses Need to Attract, Advance and Retain Women (and Minorities) (Part 2 of 4)
How the 80/80/80 Solution is the Critical Foundation of an Integrated Women’s Leadership Strategy (Part 2 of a 4 Part Series) The majority of organizations today cannot articulate in simple terms why it is a business critical imperative to attract, advance, and retain women. While senior leadership discusses broad plans, if I, as a middle manager…
Read MoreStop Your Women’s Leadership “Journey” and Start Your Integrated Women’s Leadership Plan (Part 1 of 4)
Stop the Journey. Start the PLAN. Many years ago, I was at my first ever national diversity conference, when I heard a Chief Diversity Officer talk about the company’s progress vis-a-vis gender diversity. He said the company was on a diversity journey and that ten years after setting forth on a strategy, they were now beginning…
Read MoreThe Man Code. What Women Need To Know.
Is the ‘Man Code’ Holding Female Employees Back? I’ll tell it to you straight: there is a man code that guides men’s actions –in and out of the office. There are certain behaviors that we are taught when we step foot on the playground as children. They are self-reinforced by members of the power group…
Read MoreHard Work Alone Is Not Enough. You Need To Share Your Accomplishments.
Women need to take a tip from their male counterparts At a recent event, I was keynoting my book WHY WOMEN, The Leadership Imperative and I referenced research from ‘The Sponsor Effect‘, that found that women need to change their viewpoint on meritocracies and their accomplishments. When you ask women, 77% of them will tell…
Read MoreLessons from Angelina Jolie: Leadership And Advancing Women in the Workplace Lessons
Advancing women in the workplace Addressing a group of delegates in Johannesburg, South Africa, Special Envoy of the United Nations, Jolie emphasized how it was critical to engage men in the fight for women’s rights, saying that the women’s rights movement begins at the individual level. When it comes to women’s empowerment and leadership issues,…
Read MoreThe One Thing Male Leaders CAN Learn From Mad Men
Say what you want about the portrayal of male leaders in the AMC hit series, Mad Men. Sexist? Yup. Pigs? Yup. Able to give tough feedback? YUP! Don Draper may have been a creative genius who was a pain to work with, but he had a few redeeming moments during the show. Like this one…
Read MoreWhat Mad Men Teaches Us About Male Leaders
It’s going to be terrible to say good-bye to Mad Men, but let’s tip our hat to all the gruesome realities of the sixties and seventies’ workplace the show has exposed us to. Joan and Peggy may be outstanding female employees, but their journeys have been anything but smooth. Particularly Joan, whose bumpy ride through…
Read MoreA Roundup of Upcoming Speaking Events
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks since my book WHY WOMEN – The Leadership Imperative to Advancing Women and Engaging Men came out and the response has been tremendous. Let’s keep the conversation going on what men need to do to advance women’s leadership in the workplace. I’ll be speaking in several cities over the…
Read MoreWhat Women Want (And Are You Giving It To Them?)
We’ve all done it. As kids, when we wanted something at the supermarket we clung to our mothers whining, whimpering, and pointing hopefully at whatever caught our fancy that shopping trip. As grown-up men, things remain sort of the same.
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