Digg it UP - Profile of Women Leaders

What makes a leader is a complex question. It includes factors from the environment in which an individual was raised, his or her family situation, and his or her personality traits. . The following discussion is a summary of my own observations plus some of the conclusions of others

According to an overview of research conducted by me ,women are a fast-growing segment of the business community worldwide. The leadership characteristics required to make a success in this new reality are very much “feminine characteristics”. These characteristics include:

1) Self-confidence, an independent mind-set and a willingness to take risks
2) Ability to balance work and family (most are married)
3) Self-confidence, an independent mind-set and a willingness to take risks
4) About 40 to 60 years old
5) Well educated with high skills in management and entrepreneurship
6) Integration of personal and profession
7) Intuition
8) Social skills
9) Direction
10) –Hires competent, trustworthy people (not putting priority on loyalty)
11) –See communication and conflict resolution as key to organizational success
12) Men and women tend to lead in different ways.Namely, women leadership strategy is based on family pattern. It means that women tend to view solving problems differently than men. Women tend to be more holistic in their thinking.
13) Leaders must be conscious of what is perceived by others and develop strategies that are proactive in building success. Marcano (1997) described this as "know thyself" and further stated that it is important to be honest and objective when evaluating your strengths and abilities, as well as your goals
14) Continual professional growth
15) Leaders need to have a clear sense of their own vision and beliefs

Researching – Case study of Serbia I presented the latest results of researching related to women leaders and their position in the business world,i.e. how does people look at ( divided into sex,ages and level of education) women leaders and if they trust them. My scientific task was to make some conclusions and to point out some special characteristics of Serbia and Balkan region. We can see different opinions related to our questions : Do you trust to women-leaders? Could they be equaly successful in business world like men?

• Methodology

• Interviews conducted from 1.476 people ,726 women and 750 men

• Interviewed people were between 18 and 60 years old

• In the whole structure of respondents 30% were owners

• 73 % were married ,19 % single and 8% divorced.

• A few key findings are listed below:

• The barriers to women’s advancement in business are remarkably similar across Balkan region and the biggest cities in the Serbia- Belgrade ,Novi Sad and Nis.

• The women respondents trust to women leaders ( 63 %) and most of them prefer to work in some firm where is a woman leader or executive manager.Also they think that the women want to reach the top, and are equaly ambitious like men.

• Most respondents (60%) say that Corporate Culture is the most significant barrier to women achieving top executive positions, while only twenty-nine percent (29%) think work/family balance is a significant barrier to advancement and 36% believe that a lack of self-promotion holds women back from achieving top-level positions Benefits Of Working In A Small Company Versus A Corporation
Big companies, or small, both have benefits and disadvantages. Big company may give you a false sense of security. In large companies when they have layoffs, seem to layoff large groups, not just one or two people.The advantage of a big company is you can get lost in the crowd. You do your work, and then you are able to come home and that is it. Then on the other hand a disadvantage, is that being lost in the crowd, you will not get recognition if you are doing a job well done. In most cases the congratulations go through many mouths before ever getting to you and then is never said, usually people forget to thank a whole line of people when they are all directly involved in a project. Most go unnoticed!An advantage to a small company is that you are noticed, but in that it’s a double edged sword, if you do well, or bad, they see it all. You may prefer to be your own boss and work in a small company where too you do your work and then go home. However these days working in a small company can require a lot of overtime, most without pay, due to staff reductions and layoffs.In searching for a company to work for know what you want ahead of time. Do not be afraid to ask how many people they have on staff. In this, you will be able to decide if the number is too large, that maybe you want a smaller company to work for.wing discussion is a summary of my own observations plus some of the conclusions of others

According to an overview of research conducted by me ,women are a fast-growing segment of the business community worldwide. The leadership characteristics required to make a success in this new reality are very much “feminine characteristics”. These characteristics include:

1) Self-confidence, an independent mind-set and a willingness to take risks
2) Ability to balance work and family (most are married)
3) Self-confidence, an independent mind-set and a willingness to take risks
4) About 40 to 60 years old
5) Well educated with high skills in management and entrepreneurship
6) Integration of personal and profession
7) Intuition
8) Social skills
9) Direction
10) –Hires competent, trustworthy people (not putting priority on loyalty)
11) –See communication and conflict resolution as key to organizational success
12) Men and women tend to lead in different ways.Namely, women leadership strategy is based on family pattern. It means that women tend to view solving problems differently than men. Women tend to be more holistic in their thinking.
13) Leaders must be conscious of what is perceived by others and develop strategies that are proactive in building success. Marcano (1997) described this as "know thyself" and further stated that it is important to be honest and objective when evaluating your strengths and abilities, as well as your goals
14) Continual professional growth
15) Leaders need to have a clear sense of their own vision and beliefs

Researching – Case study of Serbia I presented the latest results of researching related to women leaders and their position in the business world,i.e. how does people look at ( divided into sex,ages and level of education) women leaders and if they trust them. My scientific task was to make some conclusions and to point out some special characteristics of Serbia and Balkan region. We can see different opinions related to our questions : Do you trust to women-leaders? Could they be equaly successful in business world like men?

• Methodology

• Interviews conducted from 1.476 people ,726 women and 750 men

• Interviewed people were between 18 and 60 years old

• In the whole structure of respondents 30% were owners

• 73 % were married ,19 % single and 8% divorced.

• A few key findings are listed below:

• The barriers to women’s advancement in business are remarkably similar across Balkan region and the biggest cities in the Serbia- Belgrade ,Novi Sad and Nis.

• The women respondents trust to women leaders ( 63 %) and most of them prefer to work in some firm where is a woman leader or executive manager.Also they think that the women want to reach the top, and are equaly ambitious like men.

• Most respondents (60%) say that Corporate Culture is the most significant barrier to women achieving top executive positions, while only twenty-nine percent (29%) think work/family balance is a significant barrier to advancement and 36% believe that a lack of self-promotion holds women back from achieving top-level positions Change Management: Training Is Not Enough
It is difficult to find organisations that would say, "We find that training has little impact on our bottom line year on year".Is this because organisations know exactly what return they get from training? The answer to that question is a clear no. The American Society for Training and Development reported that only 3% of organisations measure what happens to their bottom line as a result of training.Or is it that it is politically incorrect to say in an organisation that has a high investment in training, "We waste our money on training". My observation is that this is somewhere near the truth.Designing training that allows adults to learn is no simple feat in itself. A designer (once the objectives of the training are understood) has to design training with four major elements in mind.Participants must recognise the need for information and rapport with the trainer must be established early, otherwise the trainer's efforts will be in vain. The opening of any training effort must provide a believable and appropriately challenging answer to the question, "Why am I here?" and must lead to an early engagement between the participants and the trainer.The design must also be able to reinforce positive behaviour. In doing so, the design must not ignore negative or undesirable behaviour. The design needs to include negative reinforcements to eliminate the undes> 10) –Hires competent, trustworthy people (not putting priority on loyalty)
11) –See communication and conflict resolution as key to organizational success
12) Men and women tend to lead in different ways.Namely, women leadership strategy is based on family pattern. It means that women tend to view solving problems differently than men. Women tend to be more holistic in their thinking.
13) Leaders must be conscious of what is perceived by others and develop strategies that are proactive in building success. Marcano (1997) described this as "know thyself" and further stated that it is important to be honest and objective when evaluating your strengths and abilities, as well as your goals
14) Continual professional growth
15) Leaders need to have a clear sense of their own vision and beliefs

Researching – Case study of Serbia I presented the latest results of researching related to women leaders and their position in the business world,i.e. how does people look at ( divided into sex,ages and level of education) women leaders and if they trust them. My scientific task was to make some conclusions and to point out some special characteristics of Serbia and Balkan region. We can see different opinions related to our questions : Do you trust to women-leaders? Could they be equaly successful in business world like men?

• Methodology

• Interviews conducted from 1.476 people ,726 women and 750 men

• Interviewed people were between 18 and 60 years old

• In the whole structure of respondents 30% were owners

• 73 % were married ,19 % single and 8% divorced.

• A few key findings are listed below:

• The barriers to women’s advancement in business are remarkably similar across Balkan region and the biggest cities in the Serbia- Belgrade ,Novi Sad and Nis.

• The women respondents trust to women leaders ( 63 %) and most of them prefer to work in some firm where is a woman leader or executive manager.Also they think that the women want to reach the top, and are equaly ambitious like men.

• Most respondents (60%) say that Corporate Culture is the most significant barrier to women achieving top executive positions, while only twenty-nine percent (29%) think work/family balance is a significant barrier to advancement and 36% believe that a lack of self-promotion holds women back from achieving top-level positions The Importance of Being Earnest in Business Card Designs
There are plenty of rights and wrongs, dos and don’ts in business card design. And it can get pretty confusing trying to remember all of them by heart.Business cards are your allies in making your business thrive. It is the vantage point that connects clients to you and to your business. It pays to invest on quality business cards that will effectively draw clients towards you.Business cards are made to attract attention. Thus, designing your business cards must be based with the intent to lure clients and make an impression on them. One should design business cards with the intent of communicating certain values and ideas to clients. The reason being is that business card designs can relay messages to clients – borne out of impressions on the design itself.Build Up Your Image Image is an important factor for it builds up confidence, trust and security to clients. An image should always be a good reflection of you and your business to inspire clients. From top to bottom, even the littlest details such as the business card can demonstrate what measure of standard you and your company observes.Simply put, a bad design is comparable to an applicant, dressed in a lousy suit for a job interview. Then and there, anyone can make negative assumptions and generalizations based on appearances alone. Thus, discouraging anyone to take you seriously or do business with you.< vision and beliefs

Researching – Case study of Serbia I presented the latest results of researching related to women leaders and their position in the business world,i.e. how does people look at ( divided into sex,ages and level of education) women leaders and if they trust them. My scientific task was to make some conclusions and to point out some special characteristics of Serbia and Balkan region. We can see different opinions related to our questions : Do you trust to women-leaders? Could they be equaly successful in business world like men?

• Methodology

• Interviews conducted from 1.476 people ,726 women and 750 men

• Interviewed people were between 18 and 60 years old

• In the whole structure of respondents 30% were owners

• 73 % were married ,19 % single and 8% divorced.

• A few key findings are listed below:

• The barriers to women’s advancement in business are remarkably similar across Balkan region and the biggest cities in the Serbia- Belgrade ,Novi Sad and Nis.

• The women respondents trust to women leaders ( 63 %) and most of them prefer to work in some firm where is a woman leader or executive manager.Also they think that the women want to reach the top, and are equaly ambitious like men.

• Most respondents (60%) say that Corporate Culture is the most significant barrier to women achieving top executive positions, while only twenty-nine percent (29%) think work/family balance is a significant barrier to advancement and 36% believe that a lack of self-promotion holds women back from achieving top-level positions Graduate Insurance Jobs-Getting a Career in Insurance
With a job as an insurance agency’s account handler, you become responsible for managing client accounts. It is your job to advise on how to manage risks and you will offer insurance solutions to their risk problems. You will learn to work with clients and underwriters, hopefully maintaining good relations with both. You will put together risk submissions for presentation to the underwriters, negotiate terms with them, and present those terms to your clients. Your duties will have you checking over policies to make sure that they will perform, and handling mid-term alterations to your clients’ policies as well as processing any claims that they have.From this position, you have the chance to move upward to account executive, with more duties and responsibilities as well as the pay to go with it. You would have the duty to visit the clients personally, as well as paying visits to prospective clients. You would be assessing the risks that the clients are exposed to and providing them with the best advice in dealing with those risks. You would do surveying as well as designing the insurance portfolios, negotiating with the underwriters, and issuing presentations and reports. You will also be working above account handlers, who will help you with your work load and perform the tasks that you assign.If you are good with numbers, then there is an insurance job waiting for yo% single and 8% divorced.

• A few key findings are listed below:

• The barriers to women’s advancement in business are remarkably similar across Balkan region and the biggest cities in the Serbia- Belgrade ,Novi Sad and Nis.

• The women respondents trust to women leaders ( 63 %) and most of them prefer to work in some firm where is a woman leader or executive manager.Also they think that the women want to reach the top, and are equaly ambitious like men.

• Most respondents (60%) say that Corporate Culture is the most significant barrier to women achieving top executive positions, while only twenty-nine percent (29%) think work/family balance is a significant barrier to advancement and 36% believe that a lack of self-promotion holds women back from achieving top-level positions

• The majority of men in research had negative attitude against women executives. In other words they expressed stereotypes and preconceptions about women’s roles and abilities in business. Men stress that women have lack of general management experience ,lack of skills and knowledge and lack of role models.

Respondents among men almost gave the similar replies related to our questions as a following :

1.We are here Balkan and we are argue for traditional model of society

2. Women have been fighting for equal rights for nearly all of time and now that they have it they expect special treatment because they are females . 3.I do not trust women in business and I do not accept them seriously 4.I am afraid of those women 5. I hate feminist community and culture 6. Women must stay at home and be leaders in their families but not in business word. Leader position in business is reserved for men 7. Women leaders are actually men dressed like women It is very interesting that a great amount of men do not make difference between women leaders and women feminists ,who are not very popular in this region. And about 20 % of women respondents in the research share mentioned opinion with the men. About 10 % of men respondents are afraid of women domination in the business world,because it could change natural balance between women and men and to decrease traditional role of the men in society and family.Therefore, they would not like domination of the business women in the 21 st century. It is also very indicative that among young women (18-35) exist the great interest for leadership and entrepreneurship and they more than earlier explore opportunities to reach their professional goals. Namely, they expressed their opinion with the following words:

1. Female owners and leaders have more of a struggle because they are females and no one will take them seriously so they have to push and make themselves known to the world and allow the world to see their capabilities while male owners don't have to worry about the struggle of fitting in and trying to live and work up to societies standards because since they are men they are already have the macho man persona and the alterego that men have.

2. Women have to fight harder and be stronger if they want to live and work in a man's world you have to adopt to the surronding don't expect a man to be a gentlmen and hold the door open for you, don't expect him to do anything out of the ordinary that a man would do for a female because in a sense you should be getting treated like his fellow counterparts and not expect differently. In order to fit in with the men you have to in a sense think, work and act like them meaning don't think that they will treat you like the female you are. You have to be strong not every man that you encounter will treat you like this but in order to show off your strengths you should expect this.

3. It's extremely obvious that women have come a long way as successful professionals. Life in the workplace has become much more diversified as an increased number of women have made their presence felt in many industries and professions. The female task force has expanded with exponential s

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