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INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES. More women than ever before hold senior executive positions and sit on corporate boards.1 out of 4 women earn more than their spouse.Women executives in high status jobs have not given up more of their personal and family lives to manage their careers than women executives in lower status jobs.According to FASTCOMPANY, in this age of economic distress and emotional despair, women are rising to the top as humane bosses with winning principles.According to Cataly9443
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2. INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES More women than ever before hold senior executive positions and sit on corporate boards.
1 out of 4 women earn more than their spouse.
Women executives in high status jobs have not given up more of their personal and family lives to manage their careers than women executives in lower status jobs.
According to FASTCOMPANY, in this age of economic distress and emotional despair, women are rising to the top as humane bosses with winning principles.
According to Catalyst, 89.2 % of Fortune 500 companies have at least one board seat held by a woman.
3. MORE INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES Women make up 47% of investors and they account for 40% of people in US with more than $600K in assets.
Women control 80% of household spending including retail purchases and groceries.
Women influence 85% of all automobile purchases, 51% of consumer electronics purchases, and 51% of all travel purchases.
Women head 40% of all US households with incomes over $600,000.
Women own 66% of all home-based businesses.
Since 1964, the majority of voters in this country have been women.
5. What’s Holding Us Back?
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12. WHAT ARE SOME STEREOTYPING BARRIERS WOMEN FACE?
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24. What Can You Do?
Developing a Personal Action Plan
25. TIPS FOR WOMEN TO ENHANCE THEIR CREDIBILITY AS LEADERS (first 10 from Training and Development, March 1998, p.8)
Add coaching/mentoring skills to your repertoire
Give critical, as well as, positive feedback
When coaching men, give the critical feedback first
Take a stand
Communicate ideas in a concise, focused manner
Lighten up
Reduce visual distractions and err on the conservative side
Always maintain eye contact
26. TIPS FOR WOMEN TO ENHANCE THEIR CREDIBILITY AS LEADERS (first 10 from Training and Development, March 1998, p.8)
9. Think and talk about the future
10. Don’t let what you have been interfere with what you can be
Get a mentor or coach for yourself
12. Don’t minimize yourself with disparaging comments such as “I was having a PMS moment” or “My blonde roots are showing”
13. Be genuine; develop your own leadership style through increasing your own self-awareness and working to eliminate blind spots
14. Build strong external and internal networks; networks provide information: information is power
27. “Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.” Abraham Lincoln