Transcript Z!N: Met veel plezier succesvol zijn - EuropeanPWN

“Ladies, no gentlemen"
Helma Kip, Essent
Amsterdam, 2009, April 22
*) Titel van het boek van Marike van Zanten waarin 25 top-vrouwen over hun weg naar de top worden geïnterviewd
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Introduction Helma Kip
• 52 years old
• Education: Dutch law (University of Nijmegen (Radboud), 1980)
• Unmarried with (male) partner, without children
• 28.5 years full time active in the energy sector
• Last 7.5 years at Essent
• Current: Manager regulatory affairs & sustainable energy
• Staffposition; Board -2
• Experience in other sectors outside work (politics, housing, education,
healthcare)
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Agenda
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Own experiences with diversity (male/female)
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Essent diversity
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Stratego for women
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Examples
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You are working for mr.…?
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You make the minutes?
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In the chair: Goodmorning Mary, goodmorning gentlemen
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“Help, my headphone does not work…”
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The meetings of the management team Mondaymorning 9h00!
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Good idea……. ???? We go for it?? Yes, of course
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Agenda
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Own experiences with diversity (male/female)
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Essent diversity
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‘Stratego’ for women
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Essent diversity
Women improve quality of decisions, spirit of
enterprise and work atmosphere
• Women see the world differently.
Female input improves balanced decisions;
companies with more women in the top are more
succesfull.
• Women show more personal involvement, what
leads to a better working environment (and output)
Half of the higher educated
workforce is female
The wife chooses in most
cases the energysupplier
• This share is even increasing.
Women achieve better study
results than men
• Diversity prevents waste of
50% of the talent on the
market
Divers employment fits in Essents ‘values’
• Workforce should be a mirror of society that
fits Essent's policy of a good balance between
People, Planet and Profit.
• In 60% of the households the
wife chooses the
energysupplier.
• More women at Essent leads
to a more female perspective;
the female consumer identifys
with the policy and
performance of Essent
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… the same geldt for other companies!
Companies with diversity policy
Public statements of these companies
“Diversity and inclusiveness are vital for winning in today’s
business environment. They create a competitive edge by
helping us to attract and retain the best people, increase
creativity and improve decision making”
- Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell “A diverse top leads to a better product and
therefore to better results”
- CEO PwC in the newspaper De Telegraaf “Former Minister Hans Wijers announces that he wants
to increase the amount of women in topmanagement"
- Akzo Nobel in the newspaper Volkskrant -
“We take extra effort to increase diversity
regarding women and immigrants in higher
positions".
- ING in the newpaper Volkskrant -
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Agenda
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Own experiences with diversity (male/female)
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Essent diversity
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“Stratego” for women
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Book: Stratego for women, 2007
Monic Buehrs and Elisa de Groot
www.academiciservice.nl
ISBN 978 90 5261 600 I
NUR 801
3rd edition May 2008
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8 ways to win the flag (1)
Prepare yourself:
1. Set your targets and show your ambitions
2. Determine the playing field
3. Analyse the players
4. Think about strategic scenario’s
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8 ways to win the flag (2)
Play the game:
5. Enlarge your acting repertoire
6. Bring power into action at the right level
7. Negotiate and use your empathy
8. Present and position yourself
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17 rules of the game
1. Show your achievements
2. Be competitive
3. Be loyal to your team as long as you win
4. Say “I” instead of “we”
5. Know that fires are there to be extinguished
6. Recognise (your own) status
7. Be proud (boast!)
8. Negotiate, take initiatives
9. Prepare yourself on your next position
10.Know that the boss is the boss
11.Don’t tell everything
12.Accept critical remarks
13.Do informal business
14.Fight conflicts behind closed doors
15.Perform yourself
16.Take your space (fysically)
17.Show masculine & feminine qualities
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If you can’t beat them join them
As long as men determine the rules, play their game.
All people, men and women,
have masculine and feminine qualities.
When men and women realise that,
negative consequences of gender differences can be solved.