{"id":32995,"date":"2019-03-28T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator\/?p=32995"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:30:39","slug":"why-a-womans-eq-might-be-her-best-business-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/professional-development\/management-leadership\/why-a-womans-eq-might-be-her-best-business-asset","title":{"rendered":"Why a woman&#8217;s EQ might be her best business asset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Harvard Business School professor <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billgeorge.org\/articles\/true-north-discover-your-authentic-leadership\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill George analyzed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> more than a thousand leadership studies, he found that a single best profile of a leader doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s because the key to being a great leader doesn\u2019t have much to do with specific personality traits. It has to do with emotional intelligence. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies show that high emotional intelligence makes for a top-performing leader, no matter their gender. \u201cAnyone can improve their emotional intelligence,\u201d Bill George told us. \u201cThe key is self-awareness. You need to develop a keen understanding of who you are in the world.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gender, race, age, culture, and extraversion level (not to mention ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, and class) can intersect to shape identities and perceptions in complex ways. For example, female leaders often feel pressure to avoid appearing either too emotional or too emotionless to lead. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m either a bitch or a bimbo,\u201d Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, famously said. As linguist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Talking-Women-Work-Deborah-Tannen\/dp\/0380717832\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deborah Tannen observes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, stereotypes about gender roles create a double bind for women: when women are kind and compassionate, they\u2019re well-liked but told they lack leadership potential. If they speak with confidence, they\u2019re chastised for being \u201caggressive.\u201d To avoid judgment, women often use qualifiers (\u201cI\u2019m not certain, but&#8230;\u201d) or hedging words (\u201cmight\u201d and \u201cI think\u201d), frame requests as questions, and hesitate to speak up around men. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Silent-Sex-Gender-Deliberation-Institutions\/dp\/0691159769\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a study of school board meetings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, women spoke as much as men only when the board was at least eighty percent female (men spoke the same amount whether or not they were in the minority).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-33000 size-full\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/9780525533832-571x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33000\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;No Hard Feelings&#8221; by Liz and Mollie co-founders Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy is out now.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s how women\u2014and men, too\u2014can strike the right balance.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Be decisive and straightforward when delegating.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Phrase requests confidently and clearly. Instead of asking, \u201cWould it be possible for you to finish a one-page memo by tomorrow?\u201d try, \u201cThe client needs the memo by tomorrow end of day. Can you complete it by then?\u201d Your team will appreciate clarity and be happy their manager is working to ensure no balls are dropped. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Use your voice to support women. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During President Obama\u2019s first term, his female staffers felt excluded from meetings and unheard in the meetings they did join. To make sure the men in the room recognized their contributions, the female staffers adopted <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nytlive.nytimes.com\/womenintheworld\/2016\/09\/14\/the-clever-strategy-obamas-women-staffers-came-up-with-to-make-sure-they-were-being-heard\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a strategy called amplification<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. When one female staffer suggested an idea, another would repeat it and give the first credit. Obama took note, and began calling on women more frequently.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Don\u2019t beat yourself up about crying on the job<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It\u2019s often a signal you care about your work. In fact, reframing your distress as passion makes others view your tears more favorably. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign staff cried so much that former communications director Jennifer Palmieri\u2019s office became an ad hoc \u201ccrying room.\u201d \u201cNo one I worked with\u2014man or woman\u2014thought anything of it other than that it was a human reaction to the inhumane crush a president and his or her staff endure,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">writes Palmieri, now the author of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dear-Madam-President-Letter-Women\/dp\/1538713454\"><em>Dear<\/em> <em>Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World<\/em><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cNo stigma was attached to anyone who had to use the crying room.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if you see someone else crying? Understand that tears are not always a sign of sadness. Author Joanne Lipman found male managers often withhold feedback from female reports for fear of making them cry. Women do report crying more at work, but it\u2019s usually out of anger or frustration. \u201cMen don\u2019t see it that way,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2018\/3\/26\/17162636\/six-things-help-women-succeed-workplace-diversity-training-what-she-said-joanne-lipman-recode-decode\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explains Lipman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cA woman crying in the office is the same thing as a man screaming and yelling and getting angry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/03\/restating-800x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33004\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>If you\u2019re being interrupted, try these two antidotes.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Plenty of interrupters don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing\u2014they\u2019re just excited and eager to chime in. Privately making these people aware of their habit, and how it makes you feel, might be enough. If nothing changes, workplace <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/02\/how-to-handle-interrupting-colleagues\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">consultant Laura Rose<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> suggests preempting interruptions by implementing a no-interruptions rule. Try saying, \u201cThere are a lot of different pieces to this explanation, so please bear with me. I want to tell you the entire story. Then I\u2019d love to hear your thoughts on specific details.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Be part of creating a workplace in which each person has an equal shot at success.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Men, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/f3c7\/4aa95cb2d4ce04cfccbf7298290ce3cbb370.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">speak up in the face of discrimination or harassment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Be mindful of the signals you send a female colleague\u2014interrupting her, mansplaining, and calling her \u201csweetie\u201d all make the workplace less hospitable. And always introduce your female colleagues as equals. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Take opportunities to show some emotion.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> One of Mollie\u2019s former bosses openly expressed her delight at team members\u2019 accomplishments, which motivated them. Emotion can be an extremely effective tool to help bond and inspire reports. \u201cDon\u2019t stifle your emotions or your ambitions,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dear-Madam-President-Letter-Women\/dp\/1538713454\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">writes Palmieri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cMen spent centuries building the professional world, devising rules to make sure it was a comfortable place for them and that it was geared toward their particular qualities and skills. Like any good guest, women have looked for clues on how we are to behave in this foreign land. We have intuited that in this world we are to be obliging, calm under pressure, diligent, and to always keep our emotions in check.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we are now living in a different world, one that needs leaders who are in tune with their emotions\u2014and their team\u2019s emotions. \u201cLet\u2019s embrace a new way of working that is equally geared toward our own qualities and skills,\u201d urges Palmieri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Adapted from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/No-Hard-Feelings-Emotions-Succeed\/dp\/0525533834\">No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work<\/a><em> by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy with permission of Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. 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