Women Leadership Summit

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Women Leadership Summit

• Women's Work The Great Juggling Act

Kavita Dhar
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Centered Leadership Model
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Meaning

To love what you do and feel that it
matters how could anything be more fun? -
Katharine Graham, the first female CEO of a
Fortune 500 enterprise (the Washington Post
Company)
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What is it?
Meaning

• Happiness
• Signature Strengths
• Purpose
• Without meaning, work is a slog between weekends.
  With meaning, any job can become a calling.

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How to find Meaning?

• Follow your heart
• Be honest with yourself about what youre good at
  and what you enjoy doing.
• Build these signature strengths into everyday
  activities at work
• Look for patterns in jobs that have and havent
  worked out
• Talk with others about your experiences

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What if I cannot follow my calling?

• At times, priorities can be different
• Sometimes a job is better than a calling
• The key to success is being aware of the current
  prioritiesand making conscious choices about
  themin the context of bigger goals, personal or
  professional.

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Managing Energy

Flowa sense of being so engaged by activities
that you dont notice the passage of time -
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a founder of positive
psychology
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What is it?

• Minimizing depletion
• Restoration
• Flow
• Worklife balance is a mythso the only hope
  women have is to balance their energy flows

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How to Manage Energy?

• Identify what replenishes your energy and what
  saps it.
• Incorporate restorative elements into your day.
• Space out your energy-sapping tasks throughout
  the day, instead of bundling them all into a
  single morning or afternoon.
• Give yourself time during the day to focus
  without distractions such as blinking lights and
  buzzing phones. Your productivity will benefit
  several times over.

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Positive Framing

No matter how pessimistic you are by nature, you
can learn to view situations as optimists do -
Martin Seligman, psychologist
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What is it?

• Self-awareness
• Learned Optimism
• Moving on

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How to be an Optimist?

• Self awareness are you a Pessimist?
• Learn to view situations as optimists do.
• E.g. A negative experience of a meeting gone
  badly
• Limit your thoughts about it to its temporary and
  specific impact and keep them impersonal.
• Talk with trusted colleagues about the reasons
  for the poor meeting and ways to do better next
  time.
• Act quickly enough for you to make a specific
  plan and act on it.
• Undertake some activity that will restore both
  your energy and your faith in yourselfperhaps
  having a hard workout, going out with friends, or
  spending time with your children.

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Connecting

We were supporting each other, and there was
power in the many - Dame Stella Rimington, MI5
(UKs domestic intelligence organization)
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What is it?

• Network design
• Sponsorship
• Reciprocity
• Inclusiveness
• The ability to figure out where to go and to
  enlist the people and groups necessary to get
  there.

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How to Connect?

• Learn that Reciprocity (Give-before-you-get)
  isnt bad!
• Make it personal show your human side
• Assess your comfort level with the people you
  know through work, as well as how influential
  they are professionally. Find a suitable
  sponsor.
• Provide and ask for help on a regular basis.
• Find ways to forge connections through interests
  outside of work.

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Engaging

You did the work, so youve got to talk about
it -
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What is it?

• Voice
• Ownership
• Risk taking
• Adaptability
• Create your own luck

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How to Engage?

• Speak up when you have something to say.
• Accept risk as a part of opportunity. Risks of
  unexpected changes commonly seem more obvious
  than the benefits.
• Follow a systematic approach to self-improvement.

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To recap
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Some Suggestions

• Prioritize tasks
• Time management
• Read The Assertive Woman by Stanlee Phelps
  Nancy Austin

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Some Thoughts

• Women perform 66 of worlds work, earn 10 of
  worlds income and own 1 of the worlds property
• Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal
  mental capacity
• To get more women at work, we need more men to do
  more at home
• Women start careers in business and other
  professions with the same level of intelligence,
  education, and commitment as men, yet
  comparatively few reach the top echelons.

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Thank YouHave a great time