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Women in Technology
The digital and technology industries are among the fastest growing industries in the UK and we’ve seen first-hand here at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) the huge take up of digital services by individuals and organisations over recent years. The demand for seamless and intuitive digital experiences is only set to increase in the future but as an industry, it is important that we face into the looming skills gap and do more to secure more women in digital and technology roles.
Barclays Welcome Back Programme – Supporting senior women to resume their careers
Wendy Papworth Director, Global Diversity and Inclusion Barclays Group HR tells us about Barclays Welcome Back Programme – Supporting senior women to resume their careers after long term absence
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.
Business Focus
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?
Business Focus
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 Management
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.