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Imagine your career is unlimited, that your leaders
recognize your talents and are giving you increased responsibility, positions
and money!
That dream can
come true for you!
We've all heard, and maybe experienced, the glass ceiling.
If you will read every word of this article, I will show you
how you can break through the glass ceiling and thrive.
Toughness is a risk for the High Potential Woman! Don't worry, we know your
colleague, or maybe even you --- are a good, patient, brilliant, charming, and empathetic woman.
Are you where you want to be in your career? In your personal life?
Are you known for your performance competency - a good, conscientious, ambitious worker who gets the job done?
Do you wonder why you haven’t been promoted, understood, or given what you want?
If you knew the secret, you would have the position you deserve! And isn't that what you want?
The power, prestige and money equal to your talents?
I have the secret!
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"I thought I could do it all. In fact, I thought the company could not do without me. Just before they decided to ask me out, I read Jean’s book, “Same Game, Different Rules” and saved my career. I learned how to delegate and now I am the leader I didn’t even know I wanted to be. What a relief!
-- VP, Finance, Fortune 100 Company
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I'm Jean Hollands, Founder and Chair of the Growth and Leadership Center in Mountain View, California.
Since 1980, I've learned that women in business get to a certain level in their companies, and in Silicon Valley, they are mostly technology companies, then get stalled. They hit the glass ceiling.
Why?
I'll tell you what we've learned:
Women have been in the business world, at least in any numbers, for only the last 60 years, while men have been running businesses for the past 10,000 years.
There are not a lot of women mentors we can look to, so we naturally look to how men behave as our role models. Guess what?
Men are different!
No surprise there, but when we copy their behaviors, we do advance to a certain level. But the higher we get, those behaviors that got us there suddenly are the reasons we don't go any higher in the company, and often, get us thrown out!
Here are the grim facts: Less than
12% of the executive jobs in the top 400 companies in California are held by women!
For women in technology companies (semiconductor companies, electronics, telecommunications, internet, etc.) the news is even worse: women make up only
3 - 9% of the top jobs in these industries.
This is a recent report, reported on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News on October 16, 2007.
In our book, "Same Game, Different Rules:How to Avoid Being a Bully Broad, Ice Queen or Other Ms. Understoods",Laura Steck and I spent years researching and working with women managers.
We took what we've learned about why women are not breaking through the glass ceiling and sharing it so you don't have the same tragic outcomes.
And I'm offering it to you for a limited time at a reduced price.
This book, based on 26 years of corporate coaching, has the secret--you may just have that undeniable trait that can alienate some people!
We will help you if:
- You work with, supervise, know, love, or respect this woman.
- The secrets in our book will give you concrete steps to cope, learn
and help this colleague or loved one — or hated one!
- You are a little wimpy and want to learn how to handle her?
- You are reserved and quiet and don’t believe you are perceived as an Ice Queen.
You are one, or are troubled by someone who:
Has ticked off the CEO, boss or HR person?
Forgets that 85% of her colleagues are afraid of conflict?
Uses words like “stupid, incompetent or lazy”?
Burns bridges?
Doesn’t realize she scares some colleagues?
Acts like she owns the company?
Acts like it’s her money?
Thinks she is Joan of Arc?
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"Now I know ahead of time what delayed my career, so I can
anticipate the old traps for me, and I never get into the trap
now. My career soared after one seminar and one book from Jean."
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Vice President, Fortune 50 Company
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If you are a "bully broad", a term we came up with after working with
hundreds of women managers and executives:
- Give up judgmental words about your colleagues and everybody! Your
blaming and attack words tend to emphasize your worst traits, and, of
course, then, you become highly quotable!
- Plan some folks freezing in your presence. Rapid fire interrogation
creates the paralysis. And your reputation cannot afford it.
- When you are judgmental about others in someone's presence, they
worry you will do the same for them. Once the reputation is set, the image
precedes your good actions or intentions.
- Your own self-perception is different about you. It does not count.
- Finally, remember, you are not alone…
If you work with a bully broad:
- Don't take her words so harshly. Name the attack words back to her.
Expect she may up the ante, but steadfastly adopt a rational approach.
- Try: "I know you don't want to be the source of my frustration, and we are
just not communicating right now. And I want to…"
From the book: About Jealousy, Chapter 8
If you are a bully broad:
- Look for insight, not clues.
- When you have some strong, jealous feelings that seem out of proportion,
look inside yourself and try to understand what may have triggered your response.
- Sometimes our colleagues or loved ones are unfair and unfaithful, but
try to make the first step be one of introspection-not interrogation!
If you work with a bully broad:
- She may be being tested on one of the primal areas of her personality.
She won't cower or cry, but she may rampage and call for action.
- She will quickly point out flaws in others or the system.
- You may not feel like reassuring her because she is being obnoxious.
- She is uncomfortable with the murky ambiguity and is looking for
evidence that someone is being disloyal.
Answer with: "Look, Mary, you are so edgy lately that you are no fun to
work with any more. I can't take your abuse. I don't deserve it and it is not
helping your cause.'
If you think any of these examples fit you, or someone you know, for a limited
time you can order our book, "Same Game, Different Rules", for a
reduced price of $25 dollars and get a bonus:
A free 15 minute consultation with Jean Hollands or Laura Steck. That's over a $200.00 value
That's not all:
If you order now, we will pay for the shipping, handling and
sales tax for the book. That's a $14.00 value.
Combined, your purchase of $25 will return to you a net value of $214 for your $25 dollar purchase.
But the real value will be the secrets you'll learn on how to change the behaviors that are keeping you below the glass ceiling! These are invaluable insights and learnings that will help you avoid the traps most high potential women fall into and instead, thrive and advance in your career and life based on what you've learned!
Order your copy now by clicking here.
