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17 September 2009 | www.sphinxx.com.au
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 Dear {tag_recipientfirstname},
Have you been following the latest news on sphinxx.com.au? Here’s a sneak preview:
Until next week,
Jen Dalitz
Founder & The SheEO, sphinxx.com.au
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What women really want in business
Could you please give me 4 minutes of your time? I’d really appreciate it because I need at least 250 businesswomen to complete a quick poll on their experiences... I launched this poll last week when I voiced my opinion about targets and quotas and before you say “not another survey!”, I promise you that this one is different to the standard pay equity surveys. And important. Really.
Click here to access the poll, or if you’re not yet convinced read on to find out why this is important... And if you could also forward this email to your friends and colleagues, and ask them to complete the poll as well, I’ll be ever so grateful. And as a bonus every pollster will go in the running for a gorgeous Ere Perez natural cosmetics prize pack.
Now I promise this poll will only take 4 minutes to complete - three if you’re really quick with your keyboard skills! What I’m asking you to answer with a click of your mouse is what motivates you, whether you’re satisfied with your career achievements to date and whether you support the use of initiatives to increase female representation in our leadership ranks.
So why is this important?
As you know, last year’s EOWA Census of Women in Leadership showed that Australia is going backwards in our female representation in executive ranks. Women hold only 10.7% of all executive positions and I think this is partly because big business doesn’t understand what women want.
At the launch of the EOWA Census results, I asked the keynote speaker Mike Smith, CEO of ANZ Bank, what his company was doing to understood what women really want from their career. I put it to Smith that if organisations really understood this, and then offered roles and benefits that delivered to this, it would be easier to attract more women into the top jobs. Smith suggested that women want the same thing as men: they want to be successful and they aspire to the top job as much as their male peers. But I’m not sure that’s so.
Firstly I suspect that women measure success in different ways to men. I suspect they’re driven less by the number of rungs they are from the CEO on the corporate ladder, and more by achieving quality outcomes in various areas of life: relationships, personal interests and career achievement ranking equally for many.
Secondly I know anecdotally that women are harder on themselves than men, and that for many, “ambition” is a dirty word. Men and women have a different take on ambition, and many women experience guilt along with the desire to pursue career ambitions. So we can’t assume that one size fits all when it comes to motivating men and women into top jobs.
Finally I think there are many personal barriers for women in moving through the ranks that are invisible to men. There’s the obvious one relating to child care and increasingly elder care, but also the psychology of the minority that women must overcome as their become more and more outnumbered in senior ranks. Sometimes it feels like your constantly pushing your barrow up hill when you’re the only woman around the meeting table - and after a while this gets really, really tiring.
I wonder how many men you’ve worked with have even experienced being the only man on a table full of women - day in day out - in their role. I suspect this would be a very rare experience indeed.
Our belief systems are impacted by what we know and what we experience - and because 9 out of 10 senior executives in Australia are not women and haven’t had the same experiences along their career journey as women, it’s no wonder the policies they put in place simply don’t hit the mark for us.
We’re still learning what would make a difference for women in the workplace, and this learning process is making a difference but we can't afford to take decades to achieve a quantum leap.
Which brings me back to the poll.... As a CPA I know the importance of numbers for decision making and by giving me just 4 minutes of your time to complete the poll I’ll have some real data about what women really want to use with lobbying our companies and decision makers to support the advancement of women.
So please click here to access the poll... and thanks in advance for taking the time.
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Women hitting the High-Potential Ceiling
Women are under-represented not only in the C-suite, but also in the high-potential leadership development programs that would help them get there, according to an analysis of 12,000 leaders in 76 countries by Development Dimensions International. Researchers found 28% more men than women in early-career high-potential programs and 50% more men in executive-level high-potential programs.
If you're read Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, you'll know that selection for such development programs is a key filter for the seriously successful....
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Property is a Girl’s Best Friend - winners in our book to give away
With thanks to Jo Chivers of Property Bloom, we have 3 lucky winners of the new book “Property is a Girl’s Best Friend”. Emily Jerome in Adelaide, Jenny Crocker in Sydney and Tony Harris in Sydney have all won a copy... And if you missed out you can order a copy or sign up for Jo’s property development tips at her website www.propertybloom.com.au
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Balanced Scorecard creator to lead Palladium Asia Pacific summit October 5-6
If (like me) you've been a long time fan of the Balanced Scorecard approach to business management, you may be interested to know that co-author Dr David Caplan is leading a strategy summit next month right on our doorstep...
CEO’s, CFO’s, Directors of Strategy Management, Executive Leadership Teams, business unit heads and Strategy Managers and Planners are invited to attend the Palladium Asia Pacific Summit to hear from Dr David Norton as he draws on experience working with countless organisations around the world to show Summit participants how your management system can become a competitive weapon enabling your organisation to execute faster and with more certainty than your competition.
Delivered exclusively by Dr David Norton, Founder Palladium Group, co-creator of the Balanced Scorecard and co-author with Dr Robert S. Kaplan, of eight Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles and five books, this is a summit that is sure to be attended by the Who's Who of business across Asia Pacific.
Click here to find out more.
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Work in style - win a brand new executive chair worth $520
You only have 2 weeks left to tell 5 of your friends about sphinxx and go in the running to win an FX executive chair valued at $520 from Frontline Office Furniture.
You'll be working in style if you win this one... and helping other women in business in the process. Click here to find out more.
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