Championing women leaders: beyond sponsorship

252 Pages·2016·1.087 MB·English

by  Chisholm, Kitty;Janjuha-Jivraj, Shaheena

Championing Women Leaders
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Championing Women
Leaders
Beyond Sponsorship
Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj
Director, Boardwalk Leadership, UK
Kitty Chisholm
Director, Boardwalk Leadership, UK
© Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj and Kitty Chisholm 2016
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-47893-1
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Shaheena
For Surinder and Amina and Sohail for their constant support.
For my husband Zahir – thank you for everything. For my boys,
Iliyan, Kais, and Zayn, for the champions they will become.
Kitty
For Aleca and Greg, Alexander, Katarina, Jovan, Toma, and
Zanthe, Alexandra, Roderick, and my husband John,
without whose proactive support and encouragement
this book would not have been possible.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables viii
Preface x
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
1 The CHAMP Model 10
2 Women in Leadership – What’s Going On? 23
3 Barriers to Progress: Confidence and Bias 36
4 Why Championing Works So Well for Women 55
5 Getting Ready for Championship 73
6 Developing the Championing Relationship 89
7 Creating a Brand Worth Championing 106
8 The Power of Championing: Unleashing the
Power of Female Leaders 123
9 Case Studies 141
Appendix 1 204
Appendix 2 207
Notes and References 213
Index 222
vii
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 The CHAMP Model 13
1.2 Attrition rate of women from graduate entry
to C-Suite level 15
2.1 Top 20 countries with the lowest gender gap 25
2.2 Proportion of board positions held by women in selected
Commonwealth countries 27
2.3 Proportion of C-Suite positions held by women in selected
Commonwealth countries 28
2.4 Countries where at least 70 per cent of listed companies have
at least one female board member 29
2.5 Proportion of board and C-Suite women in countries
with 100 listed companies 29
2.6 Proportion of women holding board positions
in countries with smaller stock exchanges, 99 or
fewer listed companies 30
2.7 Proportion of female board members in state-owned
enterprises 31
3.1 “ Miss Triggs” cartoon, © PUNCH, 1988,
Riana Duncan 38
5.1 Seven steps for setting better goals 82
viii
List of Figures and Tables ix
5.2 Sample mind map 87
8.1 A neurobiological model of leadership 132
Tables
A1 List of Commonwealth countries 204
A2 Ranking of countries according to the World Economic
Forum Global Gender Gap Survey (2015) 205