Sg2009wc:uncommon

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Title: UnCommon Leadership: being successful, Being yourself. Women's Wisdom Mentoring, collaboration, great teams & being authentic & entreprunership

Session: 4-E Bay Area Jan 2009

Convener: Susan London

Attendees:

Notes:

Leadership today is different than it used to be - it is more "us" than "me," more individualized and focused on unique contributions. Women are primed for this sort of leadership.

(this session became more of a group conversation, covering everything from personal strengths to the male-dominated work force, and how we want to change it.)

• We want to be leaders and mentors without having to feel like we've joined "the boys club"
• Today's business protocols are not necessarily how we want to do business - we want to extend compassion and empathy into our business relationships
• Women need to support each other in creating empowered, powerful spaces, and to make that ideology widespread and common in the workplace
• We don't want to lead dominantly, we want to lead by example, and through inspiration using the following traits:
  • Confidence
  • Empathy
  • Compassion
  • Loyalty to oneself
  • Belief that anything is possible
  • Empowerment (self and to others)
  • Capacity to forgive (self and others)

As women in leadership roles, we don't want to "Play the game," we want to change the game.