Crossing the Testosterone Barrier
A fun, high energy and practical program for women to maximize their personal and professional performance.
An exclusive Humanetrics, LLC program.
“A woman is (to be) strong, yet feminine. She is sensitive in managing people yet tough in making decisions. She can take a firm stand on issues yet remain unthreatening to the men seated around a conference table.” Deborah J. Swiss, “The Male Mind at Work”
Or, pull it all together: She must be human and compassionate, yet strong and decisive.
Sound impossible? Are the odds so stacked against women that they have no ability to cross that testosterone barrier to move from assistant to manager – or to be a true equal in a relationship?
A little background – to show that we have done our research…
Women are well matched to management roles in today’s intellectual workplace because our business world has changed. We have moved from manufacturing to service, from industrial to intellectual, from brawn to brain. As author Seth Godin states, “we used to make food (agrarian society), then we made things (industrial age), now we make ideas” (service economy). Much of manufacturing moved offshore and left us with a service economy. Service is an intellectual, thinking and emotional environment. Relationships, communication, consensus and community are some of the most critical attributes needed to move from the outdated male command and control (industrial age) management style to today’s inspire and encourage (intellectual age) style. Today, the attributes that encourage extraordinary employee performance are more resident in the female than the male mind. The female brain’s natural communication, verbal acuity, multitasking and emotional connectedness, equip women with the most important skills to be effective in encouraging, engaging and maximizing (in other words, managing) employee performance.
Men and women are different and think differently; this will never change because it is about their brain biology. This biology makes men better with things and women better with words. In the agrarian and industrial ages, men’s natural thinking was well matched to the demands of competition, engineering and aggressive invention; women were less well suited for these same roles based on their brain biology. Based solely on thinking, men were a better fit for industrial age manager and senior roles. But with the arrival of the intellectual or service age the once powerful male warriors are now more out of place and less equipped to manage a new intellectual and passionate workforce. Women are the natural communicators and compassionate nurturers; they have the talents and natural brain attributes that engage employees, connect with customers and inspire performance in an emotional, intellectual and service economy. Today is your day women; get ready to cross the testosterone barrier and see an extraordinary world on the other side.
Crossing the Barrier - more important information
If that doesn’t get your attention, how about this: women’s pay scale and management presence statistics remain alarming. Women still earn seventy-five percent of what men earn for the same work. Few women hold senior management positions. More women than men have Bachelor and Masters’ degrees but earn 31% less. Approximately 48% of the workforce are women but they hold only 23% of all senior management roles. And a little more than half of women feel equal in their relationships at home.
And here is what we have for you…
So, your time is NOW! The economy has set this up – never has there been a better time for women to advance in organizations and to boldly cross the testosterone barrier – to be accepted and appreciated for what you do and can do. Be part of this highly engaging, fun, and at times, completely outrageous program that uses all of your senses and talents to show how to use your natural brain biology to step up and stand out at home and at work.
We are educators first so here are the learning concepts we will present:
- How the world has changed and why your time is NOW!
- Who we really are – men and women; biology and society – “What’s brains got to do with it…”
- Reinvent and redefine your feminine contribution, ascend to management and cross the testosterone barrier
- Use your gifts of communication, consensus, community, competence and confidence
- Learn how to compete, provide the right response and manage those emotions
- Become the agent for change and build a workplace or home life that supports, allows, applauds and appreciates your performance
But that is where the structure ends. We are dynamic, non-conventional presenters who love having fun and know that you do too…so be prepared to sing, dance, write, act and share what you think as you learn how to appreciate and use your natural thinking to be extraordinary in your personal and professional life. You will be changed…guaranteed!
Program information:
This program can be hosted in a one hour or half-day keynote, or one day program. Each program is highly interactive, practical and entertaining; it will blow you away!
Contact Humanetrics for more information on this program or to schedule a date…contact information below, ask for Jay Forte.
Connect also to the Center for the Advancement of Women and CFAW President Faye Wattleton’s Blog.
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