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Gourmet Meetings
-Are you tired of attending long unproductive meetings? Effective meetings are like gourmet meals: they require planning, execution, and follow-through. …
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Discovering Your Career Aspirations
-Over and over again, when we speak to people about what is holding them back from reaching their career aspirations,…
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Not All Unconscious Bias Training is Effective
-Companies are embracing unconscious bias training as they work towards cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture. But not all training…
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WILLO Webinar – What Makes Initiatives for Women in Leadership Successful?
-Study after study supports that having strong representation of women in leadership within a company leads to improved performance. Yet…
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How to Make Initiatives for Women More Successful – Podcast
-The Journal of Accountancy interviewed Nancy Droesch on how companies can make their initiatives for the retention, development and advancement…
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Initiatives for the Retention, Development, and Advancement of Women –What Makes Them Successful
-Initiatives for the Retention, Development and Advancement of Women – What Makes Them Successful?
By Nancy Droesch and Karen Miller, Co-Founders of WILLO LLC
August 23, 2017In December 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that “More than two dozen chief executives of companies, including Bank of America Corp., LinkedIn Corp. and Newmont Mining Corp., have signed a pledge to speed women’s progress up the corporate ladder.” Credit Suisse Research Institute released comprehensive research in 2016 that reaffirmed that gender diversity in leadership was linked to higher corporate profitability. Many companies have recognized the need to address the challenges of gender diversity in their own leadership teams and have established formal or informal “women’s initiatives”. Yet, the impact of many of these initiatives has not produced the desired results. Women are still underrepresented in leadership roles and progress to change this dynamic has been slow. We have identified the following key factors to establishing a successful initiative to retain, develop and advance women leaders.
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Why Are We Still Telling Women to Act Like Men at Work?
-In a recent article by Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest, an innovative digital platform for women, this question…
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Top Five Must-Reads
-The following is our list of top five must-read books: The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women…
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The Importance of Sponsorships
-In an article in Fast Company, author Sava Berhane makes the case that having a mentor is not sufficient for…