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Irrespective of the existence of the Glass Ceiling, women at the workplace have more opportunities to reach the top. The focus needs to be on career moves that take you there. Unfortunately, very few women plan their career progression. The presentation offers career advancement strategies along with examples relevant to the Indian corporate scenario.
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Firdaus KhanAssoc. Prof. ICBM-SBE, Hyd.
National Conference on Diversity in Management – Development of Women Executives25-26 November 2013, Hyderabad
Career Progression:
Connecting the Dots
Objectives of the Session
• To encourage career planning by women
• To provide a fair paradigm to corporate mentors responsible for grooming women professionals for top jobs
A fresh perspective …
Are women being restricted from taking on senior positions or
are their career choices effectively eliminating them from the top game?
Women should look at bridging the gap rather than being intimidated by the glass ceiling effect
Women in senior positions –Push or Pull factor?
• No longer an issue about equality or fairness
• Half of the workforce is female
• Research shows that companies with women Directors perform better on parameters such as return on equity, return on sales and return on invested capital*
*(Joy, Carter et al, 2007)
Hurdles in the Career Marathon
• A skewed perception of Leadership qualities being male-oriented
• Getting labeled as ‘over-aggressive’ if a woman is overtly assertive
• Sabbaticals that most women invariably take to raise children and
• A tendency to take on functional rather than line roles.
Woman & the workplaceLinkedIn – Cross Tab Survey 2013
Women believe they CAN have it all
LinkedIn – Cross Tab Survey 2013
Successful, but challenging…
LinkedIn – Cross Tab Survey 2013
Career vs. Family responsibilities
LinkedIn – Cross Tab Survey 2013
Success = Work-Life Balance
LinkedIn – Cross Tab Survey 2013
Journey to the Top
Sharp decision-making skills
Exposure to P&L accountability
Mental toughness
Cross-functional exposure built over a period of time.
2 point agenda for Women
Learn on the job
Build a strong CV for top positions
Planning your Career Moves*
Making it to the Top
Developing your Leadership brand
Taking on grittier, broader roles
Starting off on the Fast Track
* Based on the model given in “WHERE HAVE ALL THE SENIOR WOMEN GONE? – 9 Critical Job Assignments for Women Leaders” by Ines Wichert, Palgrave Macmillan Publication
Outcome of Career Choices
Personal development opportunities
Career development
challenges
#1:Early Stretch Assignments
• Get out of your comfort zone. Take on sink or swim assignments early in your career.
• Usually small, under-resourced organizations or departments throw up such opportunities.
Early stretch……consequent churn
Emotional intelligence/risk taking
Top management attention / mentorship
Skip rungs of corporate ladder
Learning about yourself & your organization
Building credibility in a male dominated environment
Sheryl Sandberg
1 yr at McKinsey
US Treasury Dept .
Debt waiver during Asian
fin. crisis
VP Global Online Sales
& Operations at Google
COO at Face book. 1st
female on Board
• LEENA NAIR Sr VP, Leadership and OD, Unilever. 1st woman at HUL to deal with employee relations in a factory
• DEVITA SARAFWalked away from Rs. 300 cr. Zenith Computers, established own technology firm Vu Technologies
• SWARUPA SANYALHead Of Strategy And Corporate Initiatives, Genpact. Making it bigger, lean & more profitable
• ARUNA JAYANTHICapgemini India’s CEO Her role as global delivery officer for outsourcing catapulted her to the top job.
International Assignments
Operational Excellence
People Management
Working in a different
Environment
#2:Taking on Grittier, Broader Roles
When the going gets tough…
Out-of-the box thinking Cultural sensitivity Independent thinking diversity mgt. skills resilience
From functional specialist to business manager
P&L accountability
Turnaround Pro
ChangeAgent
Corporate Intrapre-
neur
#3:Developing your Leadership Brand
NINA LATH GUPTA MD, National Film Dev. Corp.
CHITRA RAMKRISHNAfirst woman MD & CEO, NSE
KAVITA PRAKASH MANI Head, Food Security Agenda, Syngenta
Building one’s brand …Establishing reputation beyond doubt
External visibility
Large external & internal networks.
Accept being ambitious
Fine tune leadership skills
Enjoy newfound power & authority
#4: Making it to the top…
Chanda Kochhar, MD & CEO ICICI
Sminu Jindal, MD –Jindal SAW Steel Ltd.
Padmashree Warrior CTO, Cisco Systems
Neelam DhawanMD, HP
Arundhati Bhattacharya Chairperson, SBI
Indra Nooyi Chairperson & CEO, Pepsico
Sticking your neck out…
Sponsoring, talent development
Outstanding delivery of results
Appetite for risk taking and decision making
Confidence despite critique
Recap of Career Moves
Making it to the Top
Developing your Leadership brand
Taking on grittier, broader roles
Starting off on the Fast Track
“It’s really not correct to say you balance one vis-a-vis the other. You balance both equally well and to the full extent that is required. In a way, you’re trying to do almost like a 48 hour job in a 24 hour time space. But it comes from the determination to say I desire to do both. And then the way you do it is that you prioritize minute by minute.”
Ms. Kochhar on Work-Life Balance
Ms. Jindal on mistakes women make
“They try to be super at everything. It’s okay to fail; it’s okay not to achieve this super status at work and super human at home; it’s okay. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself. That’s the biggest learning at the end of it all. It is more important to get up, dust yourself and move again. All the super human stuff, sometimes is self-imposed.”
“I said no to a lot of opportunities when I was just starting out because I thought, ‘That's not what my degree is in’ or ‘I don't know about that domain.’ In retrospect, at a certain point it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters. ….there is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.”
Ms. Warrior on one key lesson learnt
“ Women keep doubting their own capabilities…they lack confidence or they think they are not as good as the other person… Women never ask for promotions or increments. They find it very difficult to push themselves to say ‘I am the best of the lot.’ They never ask and they never get…even if they see a senior role opening up, they will not put up a hand and say ‘I want that.’ Instead they say, ‘If they think I am good enough for it, they will ask me.’ But they forget that nobody knows they’re interested in the role.
Ms. Dhawan on career ‘ownership’
C..o..n..n..e..c..t the dots
Get Career intelligent
Networking
P&L thinking
Thank you!