Why Isn’t It Working? The Three Problems Facing Women Professionals

Last week, I rained on the media parade’s giving lip service to women leaders, and exposed that the raw data demonstrates that — despite all of the attention paid to women in leadership —  the actual numbers of women at the helm haven’t changed.

How can this be? 

I won’t bore you with science behind my work  —  which is always rooted in adult learning theory, brain science, and sport psychology — but what’s been proposed as solutions to this “issue” of women’s being practically non-existent in upper levels of management  simply isn’t working.  This is largely because the solutions themselves have been crisis responsive instead of truly thoughtful, proactive and integrated.

What’s more is that every solution thrown in the ring of women’s professional development has been based largely on  providing templates for the masses that have been homogenized, generalized and diluted down to a one size fits all proposition.  Of course, this will never  get the job done. Women are individuals operating in a complex, always changing and 3D world.  2D solutions — while simple to explain in a 2 minute air segment or 500 word article — will always fall short of creating results.

So, something different — something more organic, something with flex — something whole-istic is necessary.  To fully equip women to rise into the ranks of leadership in their industry, we must provide

practical and powerful solutions to the problems too many women face when moving up the ladder:

• Women need to be heard.
• Women need to be respected.
• Women need to be heeded.

These 3 professional needs are mission critical to the advancement of women and  over the next few weeks, I’ll cover these here… at dtkunplugged.

Real Results. Real Time. Real Work. dtkResources.

• why the current efforts thrown at increasing the number of women leaders aren’t working