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What Everyone Can Learn From Women in Leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LUKE SMITH<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Luke Smith is a writer and researcher turned blogger. Since finishing college he has been trying his hand at being a freelance writer. He enjoys writing on a variety of topics but technology and digital marketing topics are his favorite. When he isn’t writing you can find him traveling, hiking, or gaming.<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time, the standard for excellence in the business world was established principally by men. And that almost inevitably meant that the attributes ascribed to the effective leader were \u201cmasculine.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent decades, however, such antiquated assumptions have begun to give way to a more nuanced and, indeed, more accurate understanding of the qualities required in a leader. This important shift in both the ideology and the practice of leadership may be explained primarily by the rapidly rising numbers of women in key roles in business and government.<\/p>\n

Indeed, as more women assume high-level roles in commerce and politics alike, they are redefining what it means to mentor, develop, and lead people and organizations. But what lessons, exactly, can be learned from women in leadership?<\/p>\n

The Relational Model<\/h4>\n

The history of business and government has been largely shaped around an authoritarian, even autocratic, model of leadership. From CEOs to Presidents, to lead was to command, not to collaborate. To be an authority was to draw from wells of power and perhaps of fear to issue edicts that would be implemented without hesitation or questioning.<\/p>\n

This was the model of the male titans of old: The Carnegies and Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts and the Duponts, and, yes, the Napoleons and Machiavellis.<\/p>\n

With the ascendancy of women to the highest echelons of business and government, though, new standards and practices of leadership have emerged. The top-down approach characteristic of the more traditional and more \u201cmasculine\u201d style has been replaced with a more \u201cfeminine\u201d model that privileges relationship building and collaboration.<\/p>\n

This shift from the command and enforce model to the listen and collaborate one has yielded powerful results across diverse sectors. For example, studies show that the collaboration skills that women often bring to leadership positions have helped to overcome significant performance inhibitors, such as the lack of a willingness to compromise.<\/a><\/p>\n

Learning to Listen<\/h4>\n

Successful collaboration and effective relationship-building are often a by-product of another core leadership skill<\/a> in which female leaders tend to excel: The ability to listen. After all, no matter what the field of endeavor, leadership is about people.<\/p>\n

You can be the most brilliant person in government or industry. You can have the loftiest credentials and a litany of achievements a mile long, but if you don\u2019t have people skills, you simply can\u2019t lead.<\/p>\n

And you can\u2019t begin to develop people skills if you don\u2019t first learn to listen. Listening enables you to understand your team, needs, expectations, values, and worldviews. Once you have cultivated such an understanding of your people by hearing them out, by soliciting, evaluating, and leveraging their feedback, then you will be in a prime position to collaborate, negotiate, and compromise.<\/p>\n

Problem-Solving and Innovation<\/h4>\n

Another essential leadership skill to which women in positions of authority appear to be especially effective is that of creative problem-solving. Female executives, business owners, and government officials have proven particularly adept in innovating to resolve both long-standing and emergent problems and crises.<\/p>\n

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As more women assume high-level roles in commerce and politics alike, they are redefining what it means to mentor, develop, and lead people.<\/p>\n

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LUKE SMITH<\/p>\n

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This more improvisational approach to leadership is an especially beneficial one in today\u2019s highly dynamic climate, one in which government systems and economic markets alike face significant volatility and widespread uncertainty. Today\u2019s leaders, for instance, have endured the repercussions of global lockdowns, trade disruptions, and pervasive economic downturns.<\/p>\n

The problem-solving prowess that female leaders exhibit equips them to steer the organizations they helm through the ubiquitous and often unexpected crises of today. This may include, for instance, leveraging opportunities for affiliation and mutual support, such as those offered to certified women-owned businesses<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the process for securing certified status for a woman-owned business may be laborious, following through on such a process is a smart and creative way to protect one\u2019s business from the vicissitudes of the market today.<\/p>\n

Best of all, by leveraging resources such as these, female leaders are also able to build on the relational leadership model by seeking out and capitalizing on opportunities for collaboration. When female leaders do what they do best in cultivating strong support networks, they unleash the power of diverse minds, experiences, and perspectives. And there is perhaps no more potent tool for innovation and creative problem-solving than that.<\/p>\n

The Takeaway<\/h4>\n

The history of leadership in government and leadership has been largely defined and directed by \u201cmasculine\u201d models, models typically characterized by a top-down approach that may readily veer into the autocratic. With the rise of women into the seat of powers in politics and commerce, however, a new standard of leadership has emerged, one rooted in people, relationships, and innovation. Rather than adhering to old norms and values directed by tradition and the masculine exemplar, female leaders are illuminating the power of dynamism, support, and improvisation. Through the example of strong, effective female executives, business owners, and government officials, we can all learn a new paradigm of authority based on collaboration, relationship-building, active listening, and creative problem-solving.<\/p>\n

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