{"id":15592,"date":"2020-09-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquent.com\/?p=15592"},"modified":"2020-09-07T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T09:00:00","slug":"women-here-are-3-ways-to-lead-with-your-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquent.com\/en-au\/blog\/women-here-are-3-ways-to-lead-with-your-strengths","title":{"rendered":"Women: Here are 3 ways to lead with your strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I have been told, “ Don’t be emotional<\/em>”, “Limit your project meetings, people don’t need that amount of contact<\/em>” and “Don’t talk about your accomplishments”<\/em>. The feedback by my male managers and peers was telling me to stop using my strengths of sensitivity, relationship building and team management, and advocating for myself – to be less than myself.<\/p>\n

I know many other women hear the same thing and think that they need to change themselves to fit into the dominant culture.<\/p>\n

Then I came across this article talking about the “Feminine” values that can give tomorrow’s leaders an edge <\/a>— values like being collaborative and expressive. Out of the 10 values listed, eight were seen as feminine!<\/p>\n

So instead of changing ourselves, I say lead with our strengths<\/h2>\n

Recently I spent the afternoon with 13 women at the UX Australia conference, discussing how we can lead with our strengths.<\/p>\n

In this workshop, we focused on reframing:<\/p>\n