The feminine path to success – how female managers, consultants and leaders can become more visible and more effective. And the role that men play.
The ratio of women in management positions in your company is still too low. Your leadership team is primarily male.
You envision a world where men and women are equal and can contribute their masculine and feminine qualities on equal grounds.
Beyond lip service and part-time models, you have yet to succeed in empowering women to take on leadership roles. It’s time to make a change: you want to be a forerunner and take on a holistic and innovative approach that will truly make a difference.
It appears as though some women prefer to remain in their comfort zone, rather than set clear career goals for themselves.
You have noticed that many women lose their ambition and their wish to take on leadership roles when they start a family. Women often do not see the compatibility of career and kids.
“Make it Your Game” is a coaching program that promotes female talents and encourages them to take the lead. The program was developed in Co-Creation with Dr. Christine Solf, Nora Heger (both from Accenture) and Carsten Steiner (Development Group). It strengthens their will to stay at their consulting firm or organisation and reinforces their professional self-confidence. This program evokes joy in success and influence.
But “Make it Your Game” doesn’t only address women. Women-only development programs have natural boundaries.
The essence of the program is to balance femininity and masculinity – not in a battle, but in harmony. In order to promote female empowerment beyond lip service, we must dissolve the stereotypes of masculinity and femininity. Organisational culture is the determining factor when it comes to evaluating performance and allocating responsibility. This calls for new awareness, also amongst men in leadership.
It is the only way to achieve a true mind shift and embody diversity in your leadership team. In today’s workplace, it takes a lot more structural shifts to secure your position as an attractive employer in the “War for Talents”. It is more important than ever to demonstrate to your clients that you take diversity seriously.
In our group coaching sessions, the women are encouraged to actively build a personal, strong brand for themselves. They work on their own presence and search for a stage to become more visible. This allows them to focus on more prestigious projects, rather than just being the “busy lizzie”. They concentrate on creating value, making a difference and leading the way. This is more important than trying to please everyone – and more important than diligence and perfection. They learn to act, and not to wait to be “kissed awake” like Sleeping Beauty.
Attract motivated, self-confident and assertive female talents.
PACKAGE 02
I help the participants to critically question and dissolve their own stereotypes, negative doctrines and fears. Through confident self-exploration, they discover what they can do and what they cannot; what they want and what they do not.
In our group coaching sessions, the women are encouraged to actively build a personal, strong brand for themselves. They work on their own presence and search for a stage to become more visible. This allows them to focus on more prestigious projects, rather than just being the “busy lizzie”. They concentrate on creating value, making a difference and leading the way. This is more important than trying to please everyone – and more important than diligence and perfection. They learn to act, and not to wait to be “kissed awake” like Sleeping Beauty.
With this program, you enable the women in your team to be seen. You will generate motivated, self-confident and assertive female talents. Your company will gain increased attention from the program and take a forerunner position in society. You will receive media attention and find it easier to recruit women.
PACKAGE 03
Supporting organisations to mature into real Executive Diversity is crucial to me. I believe that companies can only become future-proof by achieving a good balance between masculine and feminine qualities in their (top management) teams. That is why this program requires the structural and organisational support of management for Executive Diversity.
In addition to the content featured in Approaches 01 and 02: Cultural changes require perseverance and a very high level of commitment. Sustainably developing different leadership identities and management careers demands consistent cooperation between the organisation and top-level decision-makers. This is ensured through an Awareness Workshop with the Top-Management and individual guidance of the coachees by sponsors from the management team.
Your Executive Diversity will be an essential success factor for increased value creation and competitiveness.
Diverse teams are more successful in their strategies, grounded in acceptance and integration of different perspectives, ideas, approaches and experiences.
You will increase your strategic potentials and growth opportunities by fostering a new culture of cooperation.
You will learn how to intelligently combine the best qualities of different worlds: for example focus, strength, assertiveness and persuasiveness with openness, relationship building, communications skills, empathy, intuition and trust. These create the best conditions for innovation, co-creativity and commitment. Companies that value diversity increase their strategic potentials and growth opportunities.
The diverse coach duo will offer you different professional perspectives and experiences. Both the masculine and feminine worldview will be illustrated.
You will experience better retention of highly qualified women through conscious investment in their development.
The effort and costs required to fill vacancies when highly qualified women “exit” into family life are far higher than conscious investments in the current female workforce. This can only be effective when organisations take a sustainable approach toward the necessary structural and cultural changes: change only takes place in organisations with a female leadership quota of over 30 %.
I have been a female executive in a male-dominated environment myself. I have many years of experience with coaching programs for women.
I have successfully implemented programs at renowned consultancies and have been coaching female leaders in various DAX 30 corporations.
My personal leadership journey as a woman in a male-dominated environment demanded a lot of hard work and learning-by-doing. I have translated these experiences into a comprehensive coaching concept in order to help women to take on leadership positions with self-confidence and ease.
I have always enjoyed working with men. I know the rules of their playing field. This enables me to coach both women and men in “intercultural competence”. I help to increase the understanding for each other and lay the foundation for a new, strong and supportive culture of cooperation.
