To heal, and ultimately stop, gender bias paper cuts, follow these four steps.
1. Begin by finding supporters, raising their awareness and asking them to speak up when cuts occur.
Gender bias paper cuts are small acts such as being ignored, overlooked, and singled out. Members of the opposite sex often don’t notice the offending actions. Over time, these small cuts wear away our professional confidence, fortitude, and sense of belonging. It’s best to be prepared in advance and these 4 band-aids will help.
A study by Bersin & Associates indicates that when senior leaders improve business results by as much as 21% when they effectively coach employees. Discover how you can develop effective coaching skills for managers in this post on coaching for insight.
A coaching client named Beth (not her real name) was facing into large scale personal and professional transformation in her life. The truth is she was becoming Her Self and would ultimately be more comfortable and natural than ever, but she didn’t know that at the time. Fear and, its partner, excitement surrounded her on all sides. Beth decided pole dancing lessons would be helpful and lots of fun.
Beth’s pole dancing instructor and coach provides good lessons about how to coach employees by offering questions and suggestions.
While coaching is a highly effective management style, it is one of the least utilized. If you’d like to give it a try, or already use a coaching style, this managers guide to coaching employees identifies five approaches that help you match your coaching approach to each employee’s stage of development.
While dining in a local restaurant, our waitress, who is also a first grade teacher, teaches us how to create a great customer service culture in 5 easy steps.
One Earthday in the 1990s, Earthday founder Senator Gaylord Nelson took respite at our house…. The rest of the story involves 6-year old boys, lots of mud, weapons of destruction, and a very gracious senator.
If good leaders coach employees and build the organizations capacity, why don’t more leaders coach? Misguided beliefs and culture get in the way.
The founding partner of a professional services firm sent the following email to a client. As you read it, take a guess about the sender’s
Self-confidence is comprised of a group of mental muscles. The more you use them, the stronger they grow. This two part practice to build self-confidence is a guaranteed success.
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