Irrespective of the existence of the Glass Ceiling, women at the workplace have more opportunities to reach the top. The focus needs to be on career moves that take you there. Unfortunately, very few women plan their career progression. The presentation offers career advancement strategies along with examples relevant to the Indian corporate scenario.
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Career Progression - Connecting the dots
1. Career Progression:
Connecting the Dots
Firdaus Khan
Assoc. Prof. ICBM-SBE, Hyd.
National Conference on Diversity in Management – Development of Women Executives
25-26 November 2013, Hyderabad
2. Objectives of the Session
• To encourage career planning by women
• To provide a fair paradigm to corporate
mentors responsible for grooming women
professionals for top jobs
3. A fresh perspective …
Are women being restricted from taking on
senior positions or
are their career choices effectively
eliminating them from the top game?
Women should look at bridging the gap rather
than being intimidated by the glass ceiling
effect
4. Women in senior positions –
Push or Pull factor?
• No longer an issue about equality or fairness
• Half of the workforce is female
• Research shows that companies with women
Directors perform better on parameters such
as return on equity, return on sales and
return on invested capital*
*(Joy, Carter et al, 2007)
5. Hurdles in the Career Marathon
• A skewed perception of Leadership qualities
being male-oriented
• Getting labeled as ‘over-aggressive’ if a
woman is overtly assertive
• Sabbaticals that most women invariably take
to raise children and
• A tendency to take on functional rather than
line roles.
11. Journey to the Top
Mental
toughness
Exposure to
P&L
accountability
Sharp
decisionmaking
skills
Crossfunctional
exposure
built over a
period of
time.
12. 2 point agenda for Women
Learn on
the job
Build a strong
CV for top
positions
13. Planning your Career Moves*
Making it to the Top
Developing your
Leadership brand
Taking on grittier,
broader roles
Starting off on the Fast
Track
* Based on the model given in “WHERE HAVE ALL THE SENIOR WOMEN GONE? – 9 Critical Job Assignments for Women
Leaders” by Ines Wichert, Palgrave Macmillan Publication
14. Outcome of Career Choices
Personal
development
opportunities
Career
development
challenges
15. #1:Early Stretch Assignments
• Get out of your comfort zone. Take on sink or
swim assignments early in your career.
• Usually small, under-resourced organizations
or departments throw up such opportunities.
17. Sheryl Sandberg
1 yr at
McKinsey
US Treasury
Dept .
Debt waiver
during Asian
fin. crisis
VP Global
Online Sales
&
Operations
at Google
COO at Face
book. 1st
female on
Board
18. #2:Taking on Grittier, Broader Roles
• ARUNA JAYANTHI
• SWARUPA SANYAL
Capgemini India’s
CEO Her role as
global delivery
officer for
outsourcing
catapulted her to
the top job.
Head Of Strategy
And Corporate
Initiatives, Genpact.
Making it bigger,
lean & more
profitable
Walked away from
Rs. 300 cr. Zenith
Computers,
established own
technology firm Vu
Technologies
Operational
Excellence
Working in a
different
Environment
• DEVITA SARAF
International
Assignments
People
Management
•
LEENA NAIR Sr VP,
Leadership and OD,
Unilever. 1st woman
at HUL to deal with
employee relations
in a factory
19. When the going gets tough…
Out-of-the box thinking
Cultural sensitivity
Independent thinking
diversity mgt. skills
resilience
From functional
specialist to business
manager
P&L accountability
20. #3:Developing your Leadership Brand
KAVITA PRAKASH MANI
Head, Food Security
Agenda, Syngenta
Corporate
Intrapreneur
CHITRA RAMKRISHNA
first woman MD & CEO, NSE
Change
Agent
Turnaround
Pro
NINA LATH GUPTA
MD, National Film Dev. Corp.
21. Building one’s brand …
Establishing
reputation beyond
doubt
External visibility
Large external &
internal networks.
Accept being
ambitious
Fine tune leadership
skills
Enjoy newfound
power & authority
22. #4: Making it to the top…
Padmashree Warrior
CTO, Cisco Systems
Chanda Kochhar, MD & CEO ICICI
Neelam Dhawan
MD, HP
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Chairperson, SBI
Sminu Jindal, MD –
Jindal SAW Steel Ltd.
Indra Nooyi Chairperson
& CEO, Pepsico
23. Sticking your neck out…
Sponsoring, talent
development
Outstanding delivery
of results
Appetite for risk
taking and decision
making
Confidence despite
critique
24. Recap of Career Moves
Making it to the Top
Developing your
Leadership brand
Taking on grittier,
broader roles
Starting off on the Fast
Track
25.
26. Ms. Kochhar on Work-Life Balance
“It’s really not correct to say you balance
one vis-a-vis the other. You balance both
equally well and to the full extent that is
required. In a way, you’re trying to do
almost like a 48 hour job in a 24 hour time
space. But it comes from the determination
to say I desire to do both. And then the way
you do it is that you prioritize minute by
minute.”
27. Ms. Jindal on mistakes women make
“They try to be super at everything. It’s okay
to fail; it’s okay not to achieve this super status
at work and super human at home; it’s
okay. Don’t put so much pressure on
yourself. That’s the biggest learning at the
end of it all. It is more important to get up,
dust yourself and move again. All the super
human stuff, sometimes is self-imposed.”
28. Ms. Warrior on one key lesson learnt
“I said no to a lot of opportunities when I was
just starting out because I thought, ‘That's not
what my degree is in’ or ‘I don't know about
that domain.’ In retrospect, at a certain point
it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute
quickly that matters. ….there is no perfect fit
when you're looking for the next big thing to
do. You have to take opportunities and make
an opportunity fit for you, rather than the
other way around.”
29. Ms. Dhawan on career ‘ownership’
“ Women keep doubting their own capabilities…they lack
confidence or they think they are not as good as the other
person… Women never ask for promotions or increments.
They find it very difficult to push themselves to say ‘I am
the best of the lot.’ They never ask and they never
get…even if they see a senior role opening up, they will not
put up a hand and say ‘I want that.’ Instead they say, ‘If
they think I am good enough for it, they will ask me.’ But
they forget that nobody knows they’re interested in the
role.