Supporting Female Leaders
In honour of International Women's Day, I’m here to give ideas of ways that you can support women in leadership roles. There can be a number of reasons why there are less women than men in leadership roles. Data from the House of Commons found that companies led by women outperform those led by men - but despite this, we're very far from achieving gender parity in the workplace I share information about Break the Bias Unconscious biases, opinions, beliefs are formed early in our childhood. We learn these from family, friends, people of authority that are social messaging about boys and girls. Encouraging women to pursue leadership roles and supporting those who are already leaders is beneficial for the workplace as a whole. Improve Confidence Many women don’t apply for specific leadership positions so work to improve confidence can be really helpful at this level. Improve Language When I say this I mean changing the way that we are speaking up / giving time to be heard / not talking over the top of people Establishing meeting etiquettes to ensure everyone is treated fairly during meetings, that all have the opportunity to speak and be heard. Listen for the story I share about how I had to have conversations about language being used so that I could keep a strong mindset about the work I was doing. Male Allies and Cheerleaders are hugely important and I talk a little about this too. Mentoring Coaching Women's Networks Are all important factors and get in touch if you want more info on my services for these but listen in to how these are different and how they can help support women in leadership. Finally, Pay the same – if you’re not closing the gender pay gap then you’re missing one big thing. Companies with female leaders perform better than those led by males, House of Commons data has revealed. Please do make sure you hit ‘subscribe’ so that don’t miss an episode. If you haven’t yet left a review, please do go and find the little button to leave a review and let me know your thoughts, key take-aways and what you value from the podcast. Join my corporate leadership and wellbeing newsletter HERE If you want to be increasing your performance so that you’re more resilient in these current times, so that you can focus easily, use tools and techniques to deal with all the current and unknown challenges then make sure that you either drop me an email to [email protected] or head over to my contact page to book into the diary.