This blog is part 4 of 5 of blog series Storytelling: Women in Boardrooms.
In this blog I share strategies to overcome Manterruption. If you want to know what is Manterupption please read our previous blog.
It is important to start with an understanding of why is a man interrupting? Men often perceive women to take things personally and overreact as…
YEARS ago, while producing the hit TV series “The Shield,” Glen Mazzara noticed that two young female writers were quiet during story meetings. He pulled them aside and encouraged them to speak up more.
Watch what happens when we do, they replied.
Almost every time they started to speak, they were interrupted or shot down before finishing their pitch. When one had…
Oct 2019, I am invited to speak on Stories about Cultural Diversity and Inclusion at an event. After my talk, I sit down to listen to the next speaker who is sharing key findings of Women in Workplace 2019 report. I see a term flashed on the screen
Manterrupting : Unnecessary interruption of a woman by a man.
I had never heard…
I wake up every morning to a very colourful tapestry of photos on social media. It includes photos of food people ate, to friends they met, to workshops they ran, to speech they gave, to people they coached, to awards they won and many posts start with
it is my privilege
it is my honour
I am delighted to
which are all…
How words shape us!
Here is a dinner table conversation with my 12 years old daughter that left me thinking how we need to redefine words.
I walked up to the dining table and gave my daughter a big hug. “So, what is it about me that you like mum?” She asked. My response, “many things but I love the fact that …
Research proves Gender Diversity leads to Innovation. We have heard this statement a million times and it is now noise versus great news. But, despite having heard this statement several times the importance of this statement has not reduced which puts the communicator in a difficult situation because it is an important statement that needs telling but when told falls on deaf…
So why is it even important that we know, How Women Experience Shame?
Because of one simple reason, when you know where shame comes from and there are others like you experiencing the shame, you don’t blame yourself, which is liberating.
According to Dr Brene’ Brown, when women were asked to share their definitions or experiences of shame, here’s what they said:…
Sydney 2008, whilst having a day on the road, doing sales calls, I get stuck in the traffic with a colleague for over 40 mins. Chatting is the only way to kill time. In this purposeless, purely out of boredom chit chat he shares details of his renumeration package with me. I am certain he has made a mistake with the numbers…
Content, stories, practice, timing, gesture, voice, attire (yes, this matters a lot to women, even if they say, ” I don’t care ), pause and the list goes on on for things you have to know, apply, be mindful of when you are wearing a speaker’s hat. I am almost certain one can do a PhD in speaking. Won’t be surprised if…