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IT’s her Future- KPMG launches initiative to encourage women into Tech
KPMG launches ‘IT’s her future’ scheme by outlining five recommendations to help firms boost female talent in tech.
Do You Need a Title to be a Leader?
When you look up the Oxford Dictionary definition of “leader” it says: a person who leads a group of people, especially the head of a country, an organisation, etc. a person or thing that is the best, or in first place in a race, business, etc. That is the technical definition. But surely there are other definitions?
What Are We Really Talking About? Overcoming the ‘readiness’ myth
We have been interviewing board level men and a few women on what they think will drive gender balance forward for a new client. In several meetings we heard men claim they ‘are all for balance; but the women they know aren’t ready for leadership’. Later, we met another senior leader who exasperatedly said: ‘I see my colleagues take chances on younger men who are perhaps still a bit green. But when they look at female candidates as part of succession planning, they will say ‘she’s just not ready’.
Career decision-making styles
We make a huge number of decisions on a daily basis, from the trivial, such as deciding whether to press snooze on the alarm and have ten more minutes in bed, through to the life-changing, such as deciding whether to have a child. We make these decisions regularly without really considering the mechanism behind them.