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Women in Technology Women on the GO

Women in Technology Women on the GO. Resiliency Natasha Solovieff BiZMapper 763-541-7804 ns@bizmapper.biz. What is it?. Dictionary: buoyant, bouncing or springing back into shape, position, quickly

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Women in Technology Women on the GO

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  1. Women in TechnologyWomen on the GO Resiliency Natasha Solovieff BiZMapper 763-541-7804 ns@bizmapper.biz

  2. What is it? • Dictionary: buoyant, bouncing or springing back into shape, position, quickly • 3M: Resilience means being capable to bounce back, whether you're going through stressful situations or not. • BiZMapper: It’s mapping out ___, using the resilience circle.

  3. Why do you need it? • Change • Other imposed (life happens) • Self-imposed (beliefs, attitudes, wants, goals) • Technology is on the GO

  4. Technology on the go • Lifespan of a new technology is six months • Companies come and go • Public issues • Ethical areas we don’t even know how to think about

  5. Stats on women in Technology • Women: • hold roughly 20 percent of jobs in the lucrative high-tech sector.(AAUW) • % of graduates with degrees in computer science, relative to men, is one third less today than it was in 1984. (David Gordon, editor of Harvard Education Letter)

  6. Stats con’t: • working more than 60 hours per week earn only 78.3% of what men in the same time category earn(Bureau of Labor Statistics). • working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6% of what men working similar hours earn(Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics)

  7. How do you get it? • Plan using the Circle of Resilience • Awareness • Practice

  8. Circle of Resiliency

  9. Connection • Internal (self) – have a systematic way to assess • External (others) – communication including listening

  10. Visibility • Be part of the grapevine • Be known by one beyond who you report to • Ask for what you want • Think big but start small

  11. Vision • Know the territory • Know thyself

  12. Technology • Keep your personal and work separate • Use the ‘toys’ • Create new uses for “old” programs • Be informed about the larger environment

  13. Operations • Systematize your habits • Use your sweet spots • Bottom line • Create face time

  14. Balancing objectivity and subjectivity • Reality checks • Intuition • Reach out!

  15. Action Steps • Put picture of yourself in center of 6 corners map • Off of each ‘corner’, draw a line • Under the line list steps to take, using the points • Encourage your daughters teachers to use technology to generate collaboration, strategizing • Encourage your daughters teachers to find alternatives to discussion for bringing out everyone’s ‘voice’

  16. Attitude Steps: • The most important step in closing the wage gap is for all of us to give up the notion that, to be paid fairly, a woman must “make it in a man’s world.” • Be prepared to feel off balance, un-resilient, stressed. It won’t last. • One small step at a time!

  17. Additional Resources Barbara Annis, CEO, BAAinc., renowned gender and diversity expert, Same Words, Different Language Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, PhD, authors of a book describing how to know and develop your talents, Now, Discover Your Strengths. Find it on www. simonsays.com (search on the title) David T. Gordon, editor of the Harvard Education Letter (www. edletter.org) and author of The Digital Classroom: How Technology is Changing the Way we Teach and Learn. Institute for women and technology, www. iwt.org. This site is an excellent resource. It includes a virtual community for technical women in computing, a mentor net and many other links of value. A great way to reach out!

  18. Additional Resources con’td. Natasha Solovieff at BiZMapper. Map out your growth strategy, focus, and priorities for your business, department, yourself, through resilience planning. The more you do it, the less you lose it! Individual and business advising or coaching. Contact ns@bizmapper.biz or 763.541.7804 to discuss your need. staff@stresspest.com This site is coming soon. Jump-start paying attention to the impact stress in your life has on you. Email this address, write ‘jump- start’ in the subject field and receive free weekly facts about stress for 3 months. (The site will have online, real-time stress cycle interruptors, along with a program that takes you beyond how stress is impacting you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually)

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