22 Jul 2021

Digital Working Place, Inclusiveness and Women Leadership 0 Comment
The #1 post-Covid Challenge for Professional Women Article
The pandemic continues to have a devastating effect on the poorest and most fragile parts of the global population, but it is also a personal tragedy for many and a major disruption for everybody, even those in the most privileged situations. How disruptions specifically affect the working population varies in different sectors and professions, but it always creates stress and fatigue...
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06 Apr 2021

Engagement and Transformational Leadership, Inclusiveness and Women Leadership
Grooa featured image for the article "Most business women sabotage their success via poor networking, do you?"
The pandemic appears to have affected women more than men. It seems like the anxiety of an uncertain future has somehow triggered conservative fear-reactions that have pushed many women several years "back" in their journey towards equality. Concerns are being raised about the increased share of domestic chores that have disproportionately fallen onto women; as well as about the increas...
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12 Sep 2018

Inclusiveness and Women Leadership
Woman among men in Lego figures
Do you ever struggle to "make others understand you"? Or maybe wish that you could "make others see what you see"? Do you ever get defensive or frustrated when one of your great ideas is met with lukewarm attention and objections? Do you ever feel unheard or maybe even doubt your ability to influence? You might be surprised to know that even the most successful business leaders ...
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30 Aug 2016

Inclusiveness and Women Leadership
Female Leadership Grooa
Extensive studies show that women across all countries have significantly lower Self-Esteem than men. This is often reflected in a lower degree of Confidence: in spite of proven leadership effectiveness, many women still doubt their capabilities, which may affect their happiness and success. Fortunately, it is possible to increase both Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence. Find out about the...
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20 Feb 2015

Inclusiveness and Women Leadership
The substitution of “I” and “You” with a “We” is a very common technique to evolve disagreements into an opportunity to learn, exchange and co-create, by focusing on similarities. There are however exceptions; a typical case when it is more productive to focus on differences rather than similarities is a multicultural context where the parties are not familiar with each other's cultur...
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20 Nov 2014

Engagement and Transformational Leadership, Inclusiveness and Women Leadership
Modern organizations increasingly use cross-functional teams, which are believed (and expected) to offer substantial advantages vs. traditional hierarchical structures based on individual functionalities. Yet it is not always easy to reap the expected advantages. One of the reasons is that leadership training is often based on individuals and individual performance. We offer a novel p...
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22 Sep 2014

Engagement and Transformational Leadership, Inclusiveness and Women Leadership
Designing and implementing a Workplace Diversity Strategy can be a true hardship for HR and corporate management. On one side there are external and internal demands (legal, regulatory, ethical, etc.) to ensure fairness, respect and equal opportunities to each and every one of the “diverse” groups. On the other side there are traditional organizational and performance expectations that m...
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14 May 2014

Engagement and Transformational Leadership, Inclusiveness and Women Leadership, Mindful Leadership and Mental Safety
Let's face it, we live in a diverse society and it is almost impossible to build a non-diverse workforce. Yet we know that prejudice negatively affects how we use and treat our diverse resources, so we have actions in place to fight discrimination and measures to monitor progress. Then how do we end up with statistics like “in the US 60% of corporate CEOs are over six foot tall, whereas ...
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14 May 2014

Feedback, Inclusiveness and Women Leadership, Values and Purpose
A US perspective by Dariela Sosa, Columbia University, New York, NY Imagine professional life as a marathon. People yell at men: “Hey, bread-winner, failing is not an option!”,“Does your wife earn more than you?”, and “He is not earning enough money to support his family.” On the other hand, people yell at women: “You are a workaholic, that's why you don't have a partner”, “Aren't you...
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14 May 2014

Inclusiveness and Women Leadership
American film producer and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Peter Gruber (The Color Purple and Rainman) used this provoking headline for a LinkedIn article last year. Having promoted several brilliant women to top positions (e.g. Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman and CEO of DreamWorks; Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures; Cathy Schulman, Oscar winning producer of Crash and currently President...
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