Posts Tagged ‘gender’

Women ‘drive success’

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

 

Women ‘drive success’

 

COMPANIES perform better when they’ve got women in senior management positions, a business forum has been told.

Carolyn Kay, a non-executive director at Commonwealth Bank, said gender diversity should be viewed as a management essential.

”It’s important for women to be in decision-making levels to help reshape the culture of organisations,” Ms Kay said at the Women in Leadership forum in Sydney yesterday.

 

Ms Kay said several studies have shown that companies with three or more women in senior management roles outperformed those without any women at the top.

”There are many studies – by Harvard, Catalyst [and] McKinsey to name a few – that show strong correlation between organisations with women at the top and the relative success of those organisations,” she said.

Ms Kay said it was important for Australia’s economic health that women were employed in executive positions ”for increasing the tax base, supporting the ageing population and lifting the household savings rate”.

Statistics from the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency show that females were 29 per cent of all new appointments to ASX 200 companies in 2011, compared to 25 per cent in 2010.

Tina Brothers, executive director of the Reibey Institute, said that corporate culture change could be achieved if it came from the top.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/business/women-drive-success-20120220-1tjl5.html#ixzz1n9EKaGvm

 

Single Ladies Give Yourself a Gift This Year!

Monday, April 25th, 2011

Oxytocin is a stress reducing hormone released in women. When a woman does somthing that produces Oxytocin, her Cortisol (stress hormone) levels begin to drop and she starts to feel less stressed and more relaxed. Below is a list of 10 sure fire ways a women can produce Oxytocin for herself this coming Mother’s Day. Some of them might just surprise you.

1. Get a massage

2. Get your hair done

3. Get a manicure or pedicure

4. Take yourself on a shopping spree

5. Volunteer or give to a charity

6. Go to the theatre, a concert, or dance performance

7. Host an intimate gathering of your closest friends

8. Spend time at the beach, a river, or a lake

9. Go to an art musuem or a cultural event

10. Hand write your future self (and a few close friends if you like) a love note

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Do you feel constantly stressed out and on edge?
Or are you tired of your partner having a short fuse with you?
Is stress negatively affecting your relationships?  Are you constantly arguing?
Are you feeling tired and fatigued all the time?
Are you having difficulty falling and staying asleep?
Is stress making you sick or causing you to gain weight?
Are you having trouble concentrating?
Are you moody and irritable much of time?

Our bodies were never designed to be under the amount of constant stress we find ourselves experiencing in today’s world.  Now imagine for a moment, if you knew why men and women reacted so negatively under stress and how to practice “safe stress”.  What it would be like if you and your partner understood how to better cope with stress yourselves, and how to help the other cope with stress more effectively as well.  What would it look like?  How would it feel to have a warm, loving and supportive relationship once again?  To not be anxious all the time or to feel like you are walking on eggshells?  How would it feel to be in a relationship in which you truly felt supported, understood and nurtured?  This doesn’t have to live only in your imagination.  It can be your reality.  You can have a less stressful life and a more satisfying relationship if you are willing to learn what it takes.


For the First Time Ever!
Now, for the first time, our “Why Mars & Venus Collide…How Men and Women Cope With Stress Differently” eWorkshop is available online.  In the past 8 months we’ve been bombarded with stories of doom and gloom relating to the economy.  One of the effects of this is the increasing amount of stress these financial worries are placing on our relationships.  In fact, financial stress is currently recognized as being one of the biggest problems in modern-day relationships; in part, because we don’t understand how men and women cope with stress differently.  And because we don’t understand the differences, we tend to misinterpret them.  And this often leads to misunderstandings and no-so-pleasant arguments.

Based on Dr. John Gray’s newest book, “Why Mars & Venus Collide”, this online eWorkshop is a fun, entertaining, and informative look at stress, including:

  • • The negative effects of adrenaline and cortisol.
  • • Why men and women respond to stress differently.
  • • Practical ideas that can help men and women reduce stress for each other and themselves.
  • • The role of the hormones testosterone and oxytocin in reducing stress.

This is a great workshop for individuals or couples alike.
The 5-session eWorkshop is presented live by a certified Mars Venus Success Coach, and supported with PowerPoint slides, video clips from some of Dr. Gray’s former sessions or workshops, theory, skills and interactive workshop exercises.  You’ll receive strategies, tips, and the tools you’ll need to reduce the stress in your life, and to help your partner do the same.  You’ll even receive a certificate of completion.

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