This article was written by Anna Matard, coach in eco-leadership and female leadership.
Sheryl Sandberg*, notes about leaders in the US:
- Women always underestimate their own abilities.
- They negotiate very little for themselves in work teams: 57% of men negotiate for their salary increases and 7% of women.
- Men attribute their success to themselves, and women to external factors. If you ask a man "why did you do well on your assignment?" they will say "because I'm great, why do you ask!" A woman will say that someone helped them, or they got lucky, or they worked really hard.
Success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. 1/3 of women in top management in profit and non-profit organizations have children, while 2/3 of men do.
This American data is consistent with European data. In France, women are paid 15% less than men for the same job.
In my experience of accompanying and coaching women entrepreneurs, I find that :
- More and more women are coming to me who decide to leave jobs that are not or no longer suitable for them.
- They dare to take the step of creating a work environment that makes sense for them and their values.
- When they struggle with the masculine, it is to increase their own skills, learn to assert themselves better and negotiate better.
- They do this all the better when they are serving useful missions for others and the planet.
What remains difficult to accomplish:
Improve work/life balance
Give enough attention to your own needs
Increase the size of your company and your turnover
Overcome glass ceilings, real and symbolic
Ensure self-leadership, beyond the success or failure of one's ego
Thanks to individual or circle coaching of women leaders, 8 new leadership capacities emerge or are strengthened:
An alignment with one's generative Raison d'Être (personal and in one's work).
A relational co-creativity made of trusting relationships.
An ability to move through chaos and uncertainty as a team and to honor these forces as the seeds of a new balance.
Authentic and empathetic communication.
The ability to foster collective intelligence so that common understandings and resonances are shared across groups and systems, within the company and among stakeholders.
Fair decision making and implementation, from a complex flow of information.
Constructive conflict management.
Strategic perspectives aligned with the evolving environment of one's work in relation to social-economic, political, cultural and global impact levels.
If you are interested in coaching, individually or in a circle of women entrepreneurs and leaders, contact me.
To reach me and make an appointment: +33 (0)6 30 74 42 70
I look forward to hearing from you.
*Businesswoman, head of operations at Facebook, former VP of sales and international business at Google