Women can save us from the Leadership Cliff. Coaching them is key
As companies compete for emerging leadership talent, women represent an under-used resource. It is bad enough from a moral standpoint, but it is also a genuine loss of competitive advantage in the war for Talent. According to our research, the industrial world will be...
Women’s Leadership: 3 tips for being more resilient by Averil Leimon
In this video, Averil focuses on Resilience. She provides 3 tips that will enable women to enhance their resilience and overcome challenges as they progress in their careers.
3 tips for being more confident by Averil Leimon
Averil Leimon gives 3 helpful tips to help women be more confident with themselves and advance in their careers. Watch the video below in order to push your confidence to the next level.
Greed is good… for culture change
Those of you familiar with our work will know that we are unashamed behaviourists: if you want people to change, change the rewards and the measurements! In the great debate about gender and financial performance, we already know that executive positions are more...
Women leaving organisations : bathtubs & cupcakes…
“A tap takes 20 minutes to fill an empty bathtub. The drain takes 30 minutes to empty the tub when it is full. If both the tap and the drain are opened at the same time, how long will it take to fill the empty tub?” Women are still talked about as an oddity...All about women – Averil interviewed by Elaine Ball, CEO of EBTM
In today’s business world, we are hearing more and more about the glass ceiling and how women are on less pay then their male counterparts. Confidence is an issue with women generally and women have more to multi task, compared to their male colleagues. Are women...
Power Shift 2014 Women and Finance
Tomorrow 28th May Averil will lead the Cafe’ Conversations ‘Developing Women in Financial Careers’ answering the question ‘Leadership appraisals: are female styles part of the metrics?’ at the Power Shift 2014 Women and Finance, organised...
I am not your Mummy!
At a network event, when speaking to a delightful woman, she mentioned that in her friendship group, many of the Mums had been made redundant in recent years and that they had lost confidence and career direction as a result. We know that more women are usually laid...
The train picnic
The train was packed this morning. Not enough room to read the paper. Trying to zone out by visualising a distant beach where this heat would be pleasant when the slurping broke through my reverie. A smartly dressed business woman standing beside me was eating a...
The Great Coutts Debate
“This House believes that positive discrimination for women is no longer necessary”. I chose to oppose the motion but I could have argued for either side. Here is the gist of my five minute speech: “On the face of it, I am in absolute agreement with the proposers....