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Gender IQ is about widening the acceptable range of leadership styles to create a more inclusive culture where all women and all men would like to work. Is your brain male or female? Do you know how to tweak your style to include the opposite gender? If you don't have these skills how can you hope to influence, inspire and get the best results from your team?
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Getting the right Styles of the Sexes
Last week Gender IQ and Cisco launched the results of our ‘Styles of the Sexes’ survey, which looked at the working approaches of men and women. The findings indicate that 45 percent of working women agreed with the statement ‘women have to be better than men to succeed in the workplace’. In contrast, only 26 percent of men questioned believed this to be true. Like me, these findings will not come as a surprise to many career women. But at the same time, the Society for Human Resource Management states that 74 percent of companies have diversity programmes in place. So where is the disconnect? The issue is that many programmes sidestep perhaps the most striking diversity component in the workplace: the personality differences between men and women. Without an understanding of Gender Intelligence – the ability to respond with finesse and savvy to gender generated issues – this one topic will continue to affect men and women in every business situation.
Picture the scenario, a meeting starts and one of the male executives suggests that a female colleague be the note taker. Read the rest of this page »
Last updated on November 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Survey Results: Workplace Styles of the Sexes
The results of a survey jointly commissioned by Cisco and Gender IQ have just been published, and we have put out a joint press release today highlighting the results. No surprise to us that the findings indicate that real differences exist in how men and women deal with aspects of their work – differences that we believe individuals and organisations need to take account of in order to get the best results they can. You can read the full press release on the Cisco news website, where you can also download a copy of the white paper setting out the full results.
Last updated on November 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Sexism in the City
This is a very long article in the Times, but well worth a read if you are interested in the subject of gender differences in the workplace. Is the only way for women to be accepted to be just like the men? It would seem so. But I enjoyed the comments best, particularly this one: Read the rest of this page »
Last updated on October 19th, 2009 No Comments »
Women mentoring the men!
Dell seem to have bought into the idea that both men and women need to adapt their behaviour and style with their new mentoring programme that helps men understand what it is like to be a woman in a man’s world. This is a great initiative! Read the full story in the Observer.
Last updated on October 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Is crying a sign of weakness?
Have you read this article in Fortune magazine yet? Women cry more easily than men and that can make any of us uncomfortable. But is the answer to deny the biological facts and ensure that women train themselves out of crying in the way that Stanley Bing believes men do:
Last updated on October 7th, 2009 No Comments »
FT Top 50 Women in World Business
Check out this recent article in the FT – shame not to see any British women in the top 25! The article quotes the Catalyst research results, that companies with women on the boards are more profitable:
Last updated on September 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
