Category: Initiatives

From Leslie Pratch at the Harvard Business Review blog comes

Volunteering on a not-for-profit organisation’s board or committee might be

From the Harvard Business Review Blog Network is a great

From the New York Times comes this article from Peggy

From Business Week and Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith comes 20 common bad habits that can hold you back from achieving the leadership heights you aspire to:

• Winning Too Much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations—when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.
• Adding Too Much Value: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.
• Passing Judgment: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.
• Making Destructive Comments: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.
• Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However”: The overuse of these qualifiers, which secretly say to everyone, “I’m right. You’re wrong.”
• Telling the World How Smart We Are: The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.
• Speaking When Angry: Using emotional volatility as a management tool.
• Negativity: The need to share our negative thoughts, even when we weren’t asked.
• Withholding Information: The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.
  

The Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization that was established in 1919, making it one of the longest-running international medical associations today ^[1].

The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (CLW) is now

The Change Champion website has resources available for download from the November 5-6 conference “Investing in the Health Workforce: Aligning Strategy, Leadership and the Team” held in Sydney, Australia.

Downloads are available from each of the sessions, which included

Investing in the Health Care Workforce. Is Reform and Innovation Enough
Innovation, Leadership and Performance
Practice Development and Clinical Excellence
Rural and Remote Recruitment and Retention
Empowering and Energising the Workforce

Dr. Carol Gallagher’s book Going to the Top details 15 proven strategies for advancement:

1. Display leadership
2. Don’t take everything so personally
3. Find your passion

“Leadership and mentoring programs aim to increase women’s skills and confidence to take on leadership roles, while introducing them to networks which may facilitate greater access to leadership positions in the workplace or on committees and councils.