The Leadership Principle™ in Action – Women in Leadership

Coaching College
Multiple Award winning Company

Experts in Workplace Culture Solutions
Presents
The Leadership Principle™ in Action –

Women in Leadership

Facts
Why are women not making it to the top of
their profession?
Around the World:
• 190 heads of state – 9 are women
• Of all women in parliament 13% are women
• In the corporate sector, women at the top, C-level jobs,
board seats -- tops out at 15, 16 percent.
• The numbers have not moved since 2002 and are going
in the wrong direction.
• In the non-profit world, a world we sometimes think of as
being led by more women, women at the top: 20 percent.

Women’s participation in
Australian Workforce
• Women comprise 45.9% of all employees, of whom
53.6% work full-time (24.6% of all employees) and
46.4% work part-time (21.3% of all employees).
• Women constitute 69.6% of all part-time employees,
35.4% of all full-time employees and 55.3% of all
casual employees.
• The labour force participation rate for women is
58.4%, and for men is 71.1%.

Women’s participation in Australian
Workforce
The 2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership14
identified:
• Women held 3.0% of chair positions in the ASX 200, and 2.6% in the
ASX 500.
• Women represented 3.5% of CEOs in the ASX 200, and 2.4% in the
ASX 500.
• Women accounted for 9.2% of directors in the ASX 500.

Real time statistics from the AICD15 reveal:
• 17.6% of directors in the ASX 200 are women as of January 2014.
• 7 women have been appointed to ASX 200 boards during the month of
January 2014, compared with 2 appointed in January 2013.
• Women accounted for 22.0% of new appointments to ASX 200 boards
in 2013. In the month of January 2014, women represent 50.0% of all
new appointments to ASX 200 boards.
• 21.0% of ASX 200 companies do not have a woman on their board.
• Women held 38.4% of Government board appointments as of 30 June
2012.
February 2014; Workplace Gender Equality Agency; Gender workplace statistics at a glance; www.wgea.gov.au

Women in Leadership
WOMEN CEOS(a) AND BOARD DIRECTORS IN TOP 200 ASX COMPANIES(b) - 2002 - 2012

(a) CEO - Chief Executive Officer.
(b) 200 ASX Companies - the top 200 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Sources: ABS Gender Indicators, Australia, Jul 2012 (cat. no. 4125.0), and Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
(EOWA),2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership

Women in Leadership
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS: WOMEN WHO WERE BOARD DIRECTORS,
BOARD CHAIRS AND CEOS(a)(b) - 2012

(a) CEO - Chief Executive Officer
(b) Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States were as at August 2012. Australian figures are from November 2012.
Sources: Catalyst, www.catalyst.org/file/728/qt_australia_canada_israel_south_africa_us.pdf and
Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA), 2012 Australian Census of Women in Leadership

How a leaders’ vision can
have an impact

Inspire Influence Involve

5 keys to YOUR Leadership success
Know your Brand?

Know what you stand for
as a leader?

Questions for your consideration
1. How do you measure the effectiveness of your leadership
style?
2. Your team is a driving force – what lessons
do they teach you?

4. What are YOUR 5 steps to ensure you can inspire,
influence and involve your team on a daily basis?
4. How do you ensure your systems and processes that sing a
rhythmic tune?

Inspire Influence Involve

Questions for your consideration
5. How does the level of decision making capabilities of your
team and yourself as their leader impact your business?

6. How do you measure your ability to influence and respond
to a rapidly changing environment?
7. What is the heart beat for a culture of innovation and
continuous improvement?
9. How does your team demonstrate their social, ethical and
environmental responsibilities?

Inspire Influence Involve

Questions for your consideration
Is your Leadership style valued in the
business?
How do you and your team demonstrate
they value each others’ style?

Women of Influence

Edith Cowan: Fighter for
women’s and children’s
rights – introduced laws in
Parliament to allow women
to be educated as Lawyers
in Australia - $50 note
She wrote on her brooch
she gave to supporters – a
tough nut to crack

Gold Meir - “Trust yourself.
Create the kind of self that
you will be happy to live
with all your life. Make the
most of yourself by
fanning the tiny, inner
sparks of possibility into
flames of achievement.”

Oprah Winfrey - “My
philosophy is that not
only you are
responsible for your
life, but doing the best
at this moment puts
you in the best place
for the next moment.”

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women
than men reach the top of their professions.

“…women systematically underestimate their
own abilities. If you test men and women, and
you ask them questions on totally objective
criteria like GPAs, men get it wrong slightly
high, and women get it wrong slightly low.”
“Women do not negotiate for themselves in
the workforce. A study in the last two
years of people entering the workforce out
of college showed that 57 percent of boys
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their first salary, and only seven percent of _few_women_leaders
women.”

In what other areas are we not negotiating, or raising
our hands with confidence?

1. Non-negotiables
How do you ensure your team’s
culture sings the same rhythmic
tune as your organisations vision
and values?
What are your non-neogtiables as a
leader?
• Setting team agreements
• Conscious and unconscious
behaviours that are given
permission – who has training?

2. Setting your team’s direction:
How do you align the direction of
your team with the direction of the
business?

How are the decision making
capacities of your team and yourself
as a leader impact your business?
• Expectations
• Travelling wells (KPI’s)

3. Flexibility
We all know we have three circles to manage in our life.
How do we manage the flexibility required for each circle?
Which has the loudest voice?
1. Your circle of influence
2.Your circle of concern
3. Your circle of control

4. Commitment
Coaching College’s theory – your team is a mirror of
your leadership.
You can only manage if you measure…………………..
As a leader how do you demonstrate your commitment to
measuring success? If you were to take a helicopter view of
your team’s culture on a scale of 1 – 5; how would you rate
that your team demonstrates their commitment to
measuring their success?

If it’s in your heart, it’s in your head

How are the daily lessons/
learnings record for each
team member’s personal
and professional
development?

What is your heartbeat OF
COMMITMENT?
What is its HEARTBEAT for a
culture of innovation and
continuous improvement?

Transactional vs Transformational Leadership

5. FUN FACTOR

• What is the fun factor?
• How does your team celebrate its successes
and its learnings?

What are your 5 main steps to
ensuring your leadership muscles
are getting a balanced work out?

What is Coaching College’s
- Culture?
- Brand?

L

Lead – yourself, be the role model you intent to
demonstrate to your team – you are the mirror for your
team to reflect

E

Entrepreneurial – an ability to engage, build trust,
respect and rapport to influence change

G

Growth - personal and professional for our team members

A
C

Accountability for our actions

Y

Yin and Yang - Our passion for purpose and outcomes – Your
Personal Power and attitude is highly contagious – is yours
worth catching/

Chutzpah -Yes is our first response and then WE work
out how

Summary
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is:
'What are you doing for others?’ ”
How will you leave your mark as a
Leader?
What is your Legacy?
Denise Archie asks: We all make a difference.
Is the difference you are making the difference you
intend to make?
Thank you for making a difference