Women In Leadership

Women are capable of being an able leader in every aspect. It is not possible to respect the leadership unless one understands what qualities truly make a great leader. Studies and expert opinions say that women leaders are stronger than men leaders as they are more compassionate and successful in being an organized leader.

While some are of the opinion that motherhood and family responsibilities are the prime career interruptions that makes it harder for women to compete for the top executive and powerful positions against their male counterparts.

But it is just a matter of time to see a majority of women leaders in politics and business, since women leaders are strong-willed, hardworking and driven by a strong purpose. It is the identity crisis that exists in the workplace due to which the women leaders have been suffering for recognition.

Many studies have proved that women make a better leader than their male counterpart. This is because they seamlessly manage during the time of crisis and they come up as experts by sensing the dangers before handed.

Women in Leadership Today in India

The pipeline for leadership of women has been widening in all areas around the globe. Women are able to deliver their full potential as they are well-organized, spiritually aligned and well-balanced.

Many large scale businesses are lead by women in India and across the world. The true inspirational names of women leaders in India is a huge list,

• Chanda Kochhar (CEO of ICICI Bank),
• Shikha Sharma (CEO, Axis Bank),
• Aruna Jayanthi (CEO, Capegemini),
• Preetha Reddy (MD, Apollo Hospital Enterprises),
• Mallika Srinivasan (CEO, TAFE),
• Shobhna Bhartia (Chairman, HT Media) and many more.

Indian politics too has opened its opportunities for women who aspire to become politicians. There are programmes that train women in pursuing knowledge and skills of becoming a political leader. Though there are several barriers for women taking up political office, there are programs to strengthen the capabilities and leadership skills.

Indentifying Distinguished Qualities of Women Leaders

It is time we reframe the gender issue. The university reports across the globe always show female students at a higher success rates in education. The statistics in most of the countries shows that women employee easily outperform their male peers.

Yet, when it comes to top executives and power seats in an organization, women are underrepresented.

The most important factor that needs to be considered to make the potential women have access to leadership positions are :-

1. Spread knowledge and educate all about second-generation gender bias.
2. Create comfort zone and safe work environment to handle the transition of position to bigger and powerful roles.
3. Get to know how important the purpose of leadership is.

Identifying the hidden leadership skills in women employees is yet another challenge for business leaders. Smart business leaders have adapted the methods of balancing both men and women leaders at the senior levels. But not everybody is educated in this aspect.

Research studies have shown that women leaders have performed exceptionally well and have distinguishing features when compared to representative male leaders.

1. Women leaders are lot more persuading; flexible and willing to interact to bring others to their point of view.
2. Women leaders have a very unique approach in dealing with their disappointment. The sense of rejection usually turns into the bold and ambitious attitude to prove her.
3. Women leaders have capacity of effectively building the team and considers all point of view for decision making.
4. Women leaders have a tendency to take risks and challenges.
5. The excellent reasoning skills give the ability to learn from mistakes.

Taking inspiration from most Influential Women Leader in the world, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, when women recognize the aspect of leadership, they believe that #EveryWomanIsALeader

When trained according to the requirements to face the equal competition of men colleagues, women easily happen to be great leaders.

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