Diversity Best Practices Report on Sponsorship

The following report was done by the Diversity Best Practices Association and passed along to me via workingmother.com. it highlights the importance of sponsorship and how major corporations are implementing the programs in their workplace.

Check it out here: http://www.diversitybestpractices.com/files/_attachments_articles/rr-sponsorshipjune2011.pdf

How to Act Like a Leader

Dianna Booher on CNN.com today gives 7 essential tips for acting like a leader. For more information, check out the article here.  

Act with integrity


• Listen like you mean it
  
  
• Commit to what you communicate
  
  
• Be accountable for results
  
  
• Engage emotionally by being approachable
  
  
• Never whine
  
  
• Follow protocol in mixing business with pleasure

Role of Women is Shifting

Check out this article on how women are changing leadership styles.

Some of the trends to note are:

1. According to current research, women now fill the majority of jobs in the US.
2. Bloomberg reports that women now fill 51.4% of professional and managerial positions. Another study showed that 60% of all Masters degrees are going to women.
3. Twenty-three percent of men don’t make as much as their wives. Single women between the ages of 22 and 30 earned 8% more than men in that age group in most American cities.
4. C Level moms are no longer remarkable. In the IT sector, it became more common when we saw organizations like Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, EBay and Yahoo run by women who often had families as well as big jobs. Women often manage differently than men. Those organizations reflect that difference.
5. Homes are now purchased twice as often by women than men.
6. Single motherhood is now frequently a conscious lifestyle choice worldwide. Futurist Faith Popcorn reports that a third of Japanese women in their 30s are unmarried. Marriage has lost its status of mandatory life goal.
7. Asians are leading the business trends toward more matriarchy with a third of Thailand’s CEOs being women and China showing 34% of all senior management positions being held by the ladies.
8. Catalyst Organization reported in December that in the US those organizations with higher levels of gender diversity in the boardroom outperform companies with zero board women by 84% on sales, 60% on invested capital and 46% on return on equity.

From Tech Republic.com