Insight on Coaching
Success Factors for Women in Business
Season 4, Episode 4 - Air Date: August 20th, 2007
Audio File - Length 54:55, File Size - 25.1 MB
Guests discuss whether gender-based factors affect success factors in business.
What contributes to the success or failure of female executives?
How are these contributing factors different than those for men in the same executive roles?
Topics discussed include how successful female executives have used coaches not only to get ahead, but to remain successful, as well as a look at some female executives who have fallen from grace and what we can learn from their experiences.
Guests
Summary
A Catalyst study of more than 900 senior executives from Fortune 1000 companies found that women and men have equal desires to hold the job of CEO. However many experts are still seeing a significantly larger majority of men in the boardroom than women. In a blog by CNN Financial Editor Todd Benjamin, Benjamin also asserts a similar claim, and shares that even when media outlets like CNN approach successful women who ARE in the boardroom, they are reticent to appear on television.
Are women downplaying their gender to stay successful? And why are many women choosing to leave more traditional corporate ranks, becoming the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs
in the country?
Our guests discuss these issues and more. Topics include how coaches can help empower women to play to their strengths and recover gracefully from setbacks, in addition to how women can navigate challenging situations, while remaining authentic and true to who they are.
Highlights of the show include:
- How a coach could have helped female executives like Pattie Dunn and Carly Fiorina emerge from corporate scandal.
- Both examples and predictions of how women will continue to experience success in the future.
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