With this title, opened on 22 April the Director General of Women of the Community of Madrid, Doña Maria Jose Perez Cejuela, a conference organized by Madrid Excellent in which presented a study by the consulting SamhoudWomen on female leadership in Spain.
Maria Jose Perez Cejuela spoke of the mazes that women must travel to reach the professional development and the so-called Transformational Leadership referring to the leadership style of women, emphasizing that we take care of both the achievement of objectives as our own human capital , which is essential for business and is clearly related to Corporate Social Responsibility.He stressed that according to the latest study of Ibex 35 companies, 480 are women directors only 43 counselors and still 9 Ibex 35 companies do not have any women in their management teams. He also stressed that in Spain we are pioneers in gender equality and on the strength of our movement and the Lead program sponsored by the Community of Madrid has a scholarship and 448 women and give 120 scholarships for the next edition.He stressed the importance of networking for women in business, you need to change the way leading from the trust, from the commitment, but serving objectives. Training, work, decision making balanced and positive as the key to change.In the study presented on Women's Leadership questions have been asked to 600 managers of our country, men and women, with the following responses:1. Are men more ambitious managers and women managers? Majority Response: Same2 .- What motivates you to progress your career? and where would you like to be in 10 years? The survey respondents indicated that successful people are also better connected and know very well where they wanted to go, had a very definite plan. They knew very well what their qualities, what they knew to do and what they could do.3. "Careers difficult for women to start a family? Analyzing the family situation of the policies that participated in the survey data tell us that 68% have a stable partner and 68% had children. Women managers generally have ambitious partners, and also feel more support from the environment, your partner (83%) of their bosses (82%) and their networks of contacts (73%)4 .- The same factors are key to job success of women and men? If you are the same. Have been highlighted as the following success factors for both women and men: self-knowledge and self-confidence, dare to make decisions, models, form the management team at work, external networking form, have the support of the environment, visibility propiios know their personal goals and have vision.5 .- In Spain to become directives women have to assume the leadership style of men? According to reviewers before it, not now. Women managers are more into account the views of others in making decisions and often more responsibility for the welfare of others. In addition to better promote team spirit.6 .- What are the main barriers to women's access to decision-making positions? To this question the answers they have had more support have been:Lack of support at homeWomen tend to do much more than part-time men and part-time is much more difficult climbThe organization's corporate culture focuses on the masculine style of management and senior managers are maleMissing role models for women (for it is so important that more women hold positions in top management)Lack of flexible working hoursAs study findings have highlighted that for women the ability to be connected is key to becoming policy. For the female talent is important to work both in the professional development of women in the business environment and to encourage women's leadership is essential to the visibility of women in senior positions in the organization.In line with the results of the survey from Women and Enterprise bet since our foundation to develop our networks of contacts, both within our network, such as attending our workshops and events, and also contribute to the visibility of women in leadership positions through our website and our newsletter highlighting the achievements of women who have reached our decision and can be made models for all of us.
