In today's society, women play an increasingly important role, and their figures begin to appear frequently in various fields. More and more women in the workplace are eager to improve themselves, gain personal value and accept more work challenges. In particular, married women who have given birth have once again shown "hard work" in the choice of career planning, and are willing to get rewards at work through their own efforts. Among them, the proportion of becoming leaders and managers is also high. Although women are willing to show their self-worth at work, the living conditions of women in the workplace are not so optimistic. How can women in the workplace break through the development obstacles, enhance their leadership and bloom a wonderful life?
Women in the workplace should break through three obstacles
A few days ago, the "20 17 Survey Report on Women in the Workplace" released by Zhaopin showed that women in the workplace will face three major obstacles in the process of career development and realizing their own values: self-restriction, family ties and unfair social treatment.
According to the data in this report, 2 1% of women lack confidence in their ability in the workplace, and 29.2% of women say they can't judge how long they can be promoted. Meanwhile, women range from 2 1 to 39 years old. With the increase of age, the proportion of losing career opportunities due to family care rose from 2.7% to 27.9%. This phenomenon is more intense for women who are married and have children, and also faces the same trouble for women who have been promoted to senior management. In terms of promotion, 22% of women aged 30 to 34 reported that they felt gender inequality during the promotion process. Especially for married and childless women, this feeling is even stronger.
How do women in the workplace break through the barriers to promotion? Dong Liu, vice president of Zhaopin Recruitment Group, suggested that women should be more brave, break through the shackles of self-awareness and establish a "high-heeled shoes network", believing that "high-heeled shoes can also step on a symphony". Professor Sun Qixiang, Dean of Peking University University of Economics, an outstanding intellectual woman in the East, also pointed out that women should not shrink back, but should face up to difficulties, solve problems and strive to improve their abilities. If these problems can be handled and solved well, women can perform well in leadership.
High heels can also step on symphonies.
Indeed, today's society provides many opportunities for women. Today, with the rapid development of economy and society, as "half the sky" in the workplace, women play an important role in all walks of life. They make unremitting efforts to realize their own values with wisdom, practice and experience. Take the business community as an example. According to the data provided by the All-China Women's Federation, women entrepreneurs currently employed in the Internet field account for about 55% of the total number of entrepreneurs.
According to Forbes, from 2065438+2006 to 2065438+2065438+2065438+2065438+2006, the total consumption of China reached 4 trillion US dollars, of which the consumption of women in China accounted for 60% of the total consumption. The survey shows that female leaders can promote corporate profits. Ma Yun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, an e-commerce company in China, once proudly said that more and more women are stepping onto the traditional male-dominated stage. 34% of Alibaba executives are women, including female CEO, COO, president, CFO and other female managers. Look at Ctrip again. Its CEO Sun Jie is the only female CEO in the industry. At the same time, there are 7 women in Ctrip executives, and there are 4 women VP in the management besides Sun and CFO Wang Xiaowan.
Looking at major enterprises, from a gender perspective, there are many CFO positions among female executives. According to the results of the International Business Questionnaire Report released by Zhitong Certified Public Accountants, among the more than 200 enterprises in Chinese mainland, female executives occupy an absolute advantage in the positions of human resources director and financial director, accounting for 8 1% and 6 1% respectively, which highlights the unique advantages of women in these two positions, and these two positions especially need meticulous control and communication skills.
In Europe, especially in the Nordic countries, there are laws requiring women to occupy more than 40% of the seats on the board of directors of listed companies. At present, listed companies in the United States do not require this, but they are already moving in this direction. Shareholders have requirements for the proportion of female executives, and the capital market has requirements. Why? Yu Jin, president of Accenture Strategic Greater China, pointed out that because women account for a certain proportion in the board of directors and senior executives of enterprises, the valuation of enterprises will have a significant advantage over similar companies in terms of performance and profitability, which is brought about by the diversification and inclusiveness of the leadership.
Sun Jie, CEO of Ctrip.com, believes that the "housekeeper" has a higher return on investment. She said, "If you look at the return on investment, women will make much higher decisions: if you use women's wisdom, the return on capital is 10%, and if there are no women, this value is only about 7%. Women have a strong sense of trust and responsibility. At the same time, women are very low-key, can have sound risk control and consider problems more comprehensively than men. The final landing of each project must have strong execution, and women have played a big role. "
Female CFO has obvious advantages in being promoted to CEO.
In fact, the continuous widening and upgrading of CFO's functions also makes it easier for the senior executives in this position to step forward and provoke the company's girder. An excellent CFO is one of the most powerful candidates for president /CEO. However, because the proportion of female executives in CFO positions is more advantageous than other executive positions, they have greater opportunities to be promoted to CEO and their advantages are more prominent.
Li Yu, President of Founder Group, has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Founder Group since 2003. In recent years, she has planned and implemented a series of industrial mergers and acquisitions of Founder Group, which has increased the net assets of Founder Group by more than 300 times. Its profitability accounts for half of schools and enterprises in China and ranks among the top three in China's information industry. Such excellent performance helped Li Yu go further in the workplace.
Indra Nooyi, the current CEO of PepsiCo, a fortune 500 company, was the company's chief financial officer. During her tenure as CFO, she guided PepsiCo to reposition its strategy, which was of decisive significance in the history of PepsiCo. Similarly, this experience has become the most competitive bargaining chip for Indra Nooyi to run for CEO position.
Tan Lixia, vice chairman of Haier, was the chief financial officer of Haier Group. During her tenure as CFO, she led overseas legions to enter the international market, built Haier into a world-class home appliance brand, and created a new mode of "going global" for China enterprises. Won the title of "Top Ten Economic Women in China in 2006".
And the list goes on. The CFO as CEO, although it seems to be just a "horizontal", has a completely different meaning. The reason why these women can break through the gender bottleneck, step into the ranks of excellent CFOs, and be promoted from CFO to CEO is almost without exception: they have the quality of being strategic participants in the company, strong leadership ability, good professional quality and diligent work attitude. At present, there are still many female CFOs in well-known enterprises, and their career prospects are promising.
Learning is the key to improving women's leadership
How can women achieve better and higher achievements in the process of career and career development?
Ibmsecuritypracticaliader-Lilly Fang Li Fang has been engaged in the IT industry in a broad sense and has worked in IBM for 15 years. Now, she leads the team to provide services for IBM's information security consulting business customers in the world and Greater China. She summed up women's self-growth as eight words "being good at learning, taking, borrowing and using", that is, being good at learning from the strengths of many families, balancing work and family, making good use of favorable internal and external resources and making good use of available talents. She encourages women to make a little progress through strategic and planned efforts.
Professor Sun Qixiang's favorite female qualities are: soft body but strong will, confident but humble and studious, resolute but gentle, independent but kind and easy-going. She pointed out that the main elements of cultivating leadership should at least include: learning ability, communication ability, diligence and responsibility.
Victoria. EspinelEspinel, president and CEO of BSA| Software Alliance, believes that women's efforts and self-confidence are complementary and mutually reinforcing. The harder they work, the more confident they are, and the more confident they will continue to work hard. She also stressed that it is very important to do what she is interested in, and persistent efforts to do what she is interested in will surely succeed.
Liu Jingjing, founder and chairman of Beijing Jiahe Yipin Catering Management Co., Ltd. said that in the Internet era, especially in the transition from IT era to DT era, women have more advantages. There will be many opportunities for female leaders, especially in the next five years. If female leaders can give full play to their meticulous and thoughtful abilities, including communication skills and sensitivity, there will be more room for improvement in the future.
The experience of Huang Xiuhong, the chairman of Pengrun Holding Group, is to have firm principles, confidence and direction and keep learning.
Yu Jin also believes that business is constant and technology is changing. What we should consider in the transformation is how to constantly update our knowledge and combine life and knowledge more perfectly under the constant changes of new technologies.
The drastic changes of the times call for more innovation, and the innovative ability comes from the learning ability. The voices of female elite leaders from all walks of life have given us profound enlightenment: learning is the key to improving female leadership. It also inspires us, whether CFO, financial manager or ordinary financial personnel, to defy the constraints of reality, persist in learning, make unremitting efforts, and bloom a wonderful life gracefully!