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Taking the Female Lead!
In the masculine world of business, women typically face a longer and more complex path towards performance ease and excellence. To serve the women who intend to take the female lead wherever they are, we have developed the specialized VALCON Leaders Program.
In order to work successfully, female high-performers need a reliable and resilient network, a strong sponsor in top management and good-willed mentors who are in fact available to counsel her. At the same time, women expect to be treated with fairness, both with regard to the people they work with as well as the systems installed in the company. In addition, they are dependent on flexible work arrangements that will enable them to realize their family planning without comparative disadvantages with regard to their male colleagues.
We accompany and support female managers and executives – and those identified as high-potentials within the company - as they take up new responsibilities with specifically tailored individual coaching programs.
A man's world. A woman's strengths.
We believe that MEN naturally have what it takes to navigate today's business world. But they, too, need nudging and growth, orientation, self-confidence and encouragement. We benchmark our men's coaching practice off the most acclaimed success strategies of the military and thus inform top executives' thoughts and actions for peak results.
We see that WOMEN must adjust constantly to shift their natural priorities toward what today's business system expects - which is not so much community-caring and life-preserving, which comes easily to women and a valuable mostly invisible part of their business contribution. Instead, we gear women up for the strategizing and execution of a successful mammoth hunt. Now, women used to be hunters just like men in archaic times, and nobody hunts more successfully than a providing mother, so we pride ourselves in the excellent track record of our female executive coachées.
Strong women executives secure a strong and sustained corporate performance
That’s the business case, credit to McKinsey's Women Matter study.
However, there are still unanswered questions:
How can the engagement of the existing leadership groups be secured and its members be turned into champions of a more mixed leadership?
How can high-performing mothers - and fathers - be better enabled to reconcile their business duties with their family responsibilities?
How can enough women collect sufficient relevant experience before they move into higher levels of accountability?
The central question then is: Considering all present constraints - how can companies define and accomplish a meaningful increase in the share of female executives in a way that focusses on partnership, performance, and the achievement of corporate goals?
We know how to navigate this new terrain - and can design an effective tailor-made program to sustainably and cautiously increase the share of female leaders in your top- and middle-management.
EQUIVALENCE IN MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
We know today that a balanced contribution of both men and women helps prosper not only businesses and the economy, but families and society as well. Therefore, advancing female management performance is no longer merely a vehicle to enhance a company's image and reputation: The corporate bottom line clearly profits from a good gender mix in leadership skills*.
Female top executives are still a rare species. This results from an insufficient pipeline in middle management as - for a multitude of reasons - only very few women have managed to advance into the top levels in the past decades. This is not an issue of HER performance or potential, but rather a result of the inability of the employer to effectively harvest HER valuable contribution, focussing too exclusively on HIS.
HER performance looks different, is delivered differently, and motivated by different factors than HIS. Many companies find it difficult to measure with their traditional tools. And falsely promote those women who masquerade well as men.
Our Diversity Performance Indicator reveals unutilized synergy potentials which, once activated by a specifically tailored higher share of female managers, would have a positive effect on company results. To secure effective implementation, we assist in designing - and executing - a catalog of specific measures for practical implementation.
We believe that the need for action concentrates on the following three fields of action:
Secure the full engagement and championship for the gender-diversity strategy of top management and the male executives and staff
Enable the women to succeed in their professional tasks and duties, adhering to the dynamics of "adapt - integrate - change".
Create the right working environment - mentally, emotionally, and logistically - for high-performing women to unfold their full potential.
If you want to utilize the advantages of mixed leadership by enhancing gender diversity in your company, we are ready to assist you with analysis, advice, and execution support.
Women do not have the repertoire of male-code signals - whether they be verbal, via body language, or types of unconscious limbic signaling. Therefore, clear competence, personal charisma with feminine authenticity, resoluteness in composure and clarity in communication are crucial must-have characteristics. Our sophisticated and time-tested assessment methodology is tailored to detecting exactly these traits s in female leadership candidates.
High performing women need specific trainings and coaching in order to prepare them on their way to the top. This is not only to provide them with the necessary special skills, but to enable their personality to develop in line with their growing responsibilities. Our modular development program fills the gaps which may otherwise cause women to either abandon their ambition along the way or leave the company altogether.
Female careers do not unfold in a linear way but in phases instead due to family planning times. Flexibility is a crucial prerequisite especially for strong performers. We help your companies in successfully launching flexible work schemes and map out pathways to introduce flexibility into career paths as well without compromising company performance.
(*Women Matter, McKinsey & Co, 2007-2017).