Leadership Coaching For Women
Posted on April 23, 2007
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Women Leaders face specific challenges in business because traditionally it has always been men leading women. If you’ve been given a position of Leadership within an organisation, you have power to make decisions and take action that affects other people. In the past women were given the power to make decisions about the home and raising children but not about leadership in business organisations. Now that women find themselves in positions of leadership in business, they need to use their power very carefully.
In the 1980s, women leaders often tried to act like male leaders and set aside much of their femininity. As women leaders have become more accepted by the business world, they have shifted their leadership style to allow more of their innate femininity to show through.
Leadership coaching for anyone is about feeling confident enough to be yourself and lead. Leadership coaching for women is therefore concerned with how women find their inner confidence to lead in a way that feels natural to them. Brash outward confidence is often a bluff, as the inner person has to maintain their tough exterior. This leadership style is exhausting.
Truly building inner confidence allows women leaders to relax in their roles, act genuinely and gain trust, support and respect from those around them.
Women leaders are still very much in the minority and are therefore responsible, whether they like it or not, for breaking down the old culture of an exclusively male business world. This is tough, however the best women leaders won’t fight their way through, they will quietly, confidently gain respect in their own Leadership style without creating friction in the workplace. Leadership Coaching for Women is a specialist form of Coaching.
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Rebecca Watson specialises in Organisational Development and Change. She has worked with a wide variety of coaching organisations and leaders to empower them to deliver through high performing teams.
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She’s fantastic. I can’t wait until she’s first lady.
It was a good speech, however, I didn’t feel Ms. Obama talked enough about her own service, dedication, humanity and spirit. I suppose her personal humility and dedication to the campaign are the reasons for that. I just think she deserves much more credit.
I know my Puddin' sometimes loves me being the leader
its still true. feminism is fighting the wrong way. they wanna be like men! they sld instead focus on how both complement each other and should get their just desert and not exploitation of women by men and these capitalists. women should also start looking at how they play their part and not being subservient and enslaved by men.
its a long way ahead. police work doesnt need strength but it needs rationality. so women can still do the job and able to contribute.
it boils down to education which is still masculine based. we msut start from young that both have equal roles.
Women are capable for political leadership just as men are.
I love her. I can’t imagine having a more classy and accomplished first lady!
No..just an embarrassment to herself and her family.
Ruth
Esther, Queen of Persia
Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus
Saint Mary Magdelene, follower of Jesus
MEN-for men to become more liberated, and accepting to a female. A male needs to realize that woman can be just as intelligent, and should be given an equal chance.
Take a CLOSE look at those "theories" proposed by Feminism's founding mothers such as Valerie Solanas, Andrea Dworkin, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Ti-Grace Atkinson, you will see for yourself that they are nothing but a motley collection of contradictory claims, mumbo-jumbo hate rants against Men AND Glorification of prehistoric Matriarchy (which had been swept aside by Civilization.)
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shes cool
Our next first lady!!!!!!!
go michelle……..2016 for president
a truly amazing relationship!
My vote goes to Obama!
Amazing speech.
Yes, the Harvard Business Review is a very good publication, as are the others. For added insight, I would recommend books on Personnel Practices, General Psychology, and Labor Studies.
It is said that women as a whole, are less dictatorial and more team oriented. This is what I have read. In my personal experience, I would say it's about 50/50.
Well to be fair, the VP doesn't actually DO anything.