eve-olution latest newsletter - February 2010
Contents of newsletter this month
- Introduction, Grab Your Future by the Horns Launches!
- Round Table discussion on Gender IQ, hosted by Cisco
- Catch up with the Gender Agenda Debate with PwC
Grab Your Future by the Horns!
This month I've been focused on another new project - something that has been dear to my own heart for many years and that is borne out of my own experiences of juggling life as an enterpreneur and a single parent: tools to help women plan and manage their lives more easily.
Research shows that when men and women are working full time, the woman still does three to five times more housework and childcare than the men. Also many women find that as their career develops their home life becomes more complicated with teenagers or elderly parents to care for. There always seem to be too many plates spinning at once and younger Mothers can be overwhelmed with the new responsibility of serious commitments at home as well as work.
How do you manage multiple priorities? How do you keep the plates spinning - career, kids, intimate relationship, health and fitness, family and friends, long term goals, finances, emotional and spiritual development? If you are exhausted just thinking about it then we might just have the answer for you! Here's what a recent attendee had to say: "Thank you. You are an inspiration and a great reminder in focus and tenacity and triumphing over adversity."
Our Grab the Future by the Horns webinar can help you identify and focus on your priorities and then, using our File for Life planners, work out how to keep all the plates spinning! Read more and sign up here.
The latest edition of our on-demand training programme - Gender IQ in Negotiating & Influencing - has also been released to the website. Find more details on the website at www.genderiq.tv .
Go on ...Grab your future by the horns!
Round Table discussion on Gender IQ, hosted by Cisco
I was recently invited to participate in a Round Table discussion hosted by Cisco and attended by myself, John Donovan, Vice President Cisco UK and Ireland, Susan Vinnicombe, Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Cranfield School of Management, Alison Pothier, former Managing Director UBS Warburg and Clive Pinder, commentator on business change and transformation.
It was a lively debate, as you can imagine, and the appetite in the room was for fast paced change, with Susan Vinnicombe calling for quotas as the new way forward replicating what has happened in Norway and now France.
Certainly it felt like the kind of discussion I have been having at Round Table events for the past decade but there is definitely a new energy and more urgency than I have ever felt before. Companies have recently started asking "what can we 'do' to ensure that we aren't still sitting around talking about this in another 10 years time?"
You can read more about the Round Table on All Business.
Catch up with the Gender Agenda Debate with PwC
I have recently had the pleasure of meeting Dale Meikle from PwC and hearing all about their dynamic plans for culture change to support more women into senior roles at the firm.
Dale recently attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. Some of you may have already watched the Gender Agenda Debate on-line on CNBC this month. If you haven't caught it on television, please click here to view a short preview as well as the entire 48-minute debate. As Dale says 'The debate is energetic, controversial, and abounds with practical insight and suggestions. Our Global Chairman, Dennis Nally captured the essence of the day's topic in his opening question: "How do we get past the dialoguing and get to action that everybody can benefit from, to really progress this, so that we're not here two years from now talking about the same topic?"'
You can read all about this, and Dale's many other insights and commentaries, at the PwC Gender Agenda blog.