If you find yourself chairing a meeting of any sort – company wide updates, weekly team meetings, sales pitches or even school PTA meetings, we all know it’s important to ensure everyone has a chance to speak. Usually it’s easy to take a glance round the room and notice someone who may look a little […]
leadership, meetings, presentation,
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A special place in heaven – Choose to Challenge The theme for International Women’s Day this year is “choose to challenge”. One thing that women need to challenge is a popular belief that there is no problem in the current workplace. It is STILL a significantly uneven playing field. The issues are subtle but insidious. […]
Choose to Challenge, IWD, women,
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Lessons for women and speaking from the Parish Council How enthralled have we all been this week by the goings on of a small parish council in somewhere we’ve never heard of! It was compelling viewing. Who needs Corrie? as Sir Chris Hoy tweeted. The colourful characters, The anger, The Drama! Forget the millennials, the […]
dealing with interuptions, handforth, women being heard, women speaking,
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When we are asked to think of words that would usually be associated with Leadership and Management, the list will often include: strong, powerful, decisive, determined, assertive, aggressive, forceful, competitive, visionary, inspiring, winner, brave and so on. What about words describing male characteristics? Strong, decisive, determined, assertive, aggressive, competitive, winner, brave, bold? The paradigms of […]
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This is such a good article from CEO Today, explaining why you need to get yourself heard! Be Prepared to Be a ‘Difficult Woman’ and Make Yourself Heard in the Boardroom
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“There is a disconnect between women’s confidence in their skills and abilities (which is often high) and their confidence in their ability to navigate the system to achieve the recognition and advancement they feel they deserve. Self-advocacy is a big part of this, and it is identified by many women in the study as the […]
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The critical missing component hindering women’s success is for them to choose their opportunities wisely, and proactively and concisely speak their contributions, without apology or conditions, so that they may be listened to and credited for their contributions in critical discussions. Whether they are speaking in public at a PTA meeting, making a corporate presentation, participating or […]
Communication, Millenials, public speaking, speaking, women,
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Millennial women are making the same mistake as older generations, in assuming that the workplace is a level playing field. It isn’t. The figures on women’s representation in the boardroom and in politics along with the gender pay gap reveal this very clearly. Women’s ability to speak out to influence is critical to progress, and […]
Communication, public speaking, women,
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Equal numbers of men and women get qualifications and enter the workplace but by the time we look at a few steps on from the entry level roles, for example at director level, it is 65% men 35% women, by C-Suite level men make up 78%. Why is that still the case? One big reason […]
Millenials, presentation, public speaking, speaking, women,
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