Women wanting to be on Corporate Boards

Women on Corporate Boards

It’s happened!   Jerry Brown signed legislation mandating that all corporate boards include having at least one woman serve on it.  This is a remarkable opportunity for all women interested in serving on corporate boards.

I’ve been told by several people that most women are afraid to serve on these boards because they didn’t want to assume that level of responsibility and/or they didn’t feel competent enough.

Let’s disprove that rumor!   Let the men know you are ready and able.

If you want a little extra coaching:   Here’s a one day boot camp – workshop – that might be just what will get you excited about serving with “the big boys.”

WOMEN ON CORPORATE BOARDS
A ONE-DAY BOOTCAMP

PLEASE SHARE THIS FLYER WITH
ALL YOUR HIGH-POWERED WOMEN COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS

Thanks mostly to the #MeToo Movement, California is once again in the Vanguard creating legislation to advance gender equality requiring that at least one woman sit on every corporate board.  Although highly controversial – this is an opportunity for all high powered – fast-tracking women to serve at this level.

It also is the opportunity for those in “soft-skill” fields to participate with mostly “hard-skill” colleagues.  Although every book on board Development (including my own) states the importance of the soft-skill perspective on the board, it is rare to see anyone in those professions, including HR professionals serving on corporate boards.

This one day boot camp is designed to give you the information and skills you will need to serve with “the big boys” and shine.  Among the things you will learn:

·       Basics of Corporate Governance

·       How your Professional Background adds value

·       Roles of Board Members – and Executive Boards

·       How to be heard – to express yourself effectively

·       Assertiveness – Not Aggression

·       Getting Noticed in a Positive Powerful Manner

·       Dos and Don’ts of Board Membership

·       Handling Attempts at Sabotage

·       Standing Up to Bullies

·       Board Members relationships with staff

·       Differences between non-profit and corporate boards

Date   Oct. 24, 2018          Time 10 AM – 4 PM

Location:  Restaurant in Santa Clara, CA
Name, Address & Directions given upon registration

Continental Breakfast and Lunch Included

Fee    $250.00 per person if registering before Oct. 10^th (Early Bird)

$300.00 per person after Oct. 10^th.

Pay either @www.DiamondAssociates.net 

or paypal   https://www.paypal.com/cgibin/webscr?cmd=_sxclick&hosted_button_id=L3A7FXDGXBPLN

Bootcamp Leader:           Dr. ArLyne Diamond, founder of Diamond Associates (www.DiamondAssociates.net) who has been an advocate and professional development coach and counselor for women for well over thirty years.

Women Needed to Serve on Corporate Boards

California law now demands that women be placed on corporate boards.  Up until now it was rare to see a woman on one of the “big boards.”  But, starting in 2019 (just a few months from now) at least one woman must be included on all corporate boards.

And, over the next few years that number will be increased – so that women will account for approximately 40% of the membership of each board.

SO – now is the time to get trained to be selected and effective on these boards.

I’ve been told by several people that most women are afraid to serve on these boards because they didn’t want to assume that level of responsibility and/or they didn’t feel competent enough.

Let’s disprove that rumor!   Let the men know you are ready and able.

If you want a little extra coaching:   Here’s a one day boot camp – workshop – that might be just what will get you excited about serving with “the big boys.”

WOMEN ON CORPORATE BOARDS
A ONE-DAY BOOTCAMP

PLEASE SHARE THIS FLYER WITH
ALL YOUR HIGH-POWERED WOMEN COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS

Thanks mostly to the #MeToo Movement, California is once again in the Vanguard creating legislation to advance gender equality requiring that at least one woman sit on every corporate board.  Although highly controversial – this is an opportunity for all high powered – fast-tracking women to serve at this level.

It also is the opportunity for those in “soft-skill” fields to participate with mostly “hard-skill” colleagues.  Although every book on board Development (including my own) states the importance of the soft-skill perspective on the board, it is rare to see anyone in those professions, including HR professionals serving on corporate boards.

This one day boot camp is designed to give you the information and skills you will need to serve with “the big boys” and shine.  Among the things you will learn:

·       Basics of Corporate Governance

·       How your Professional Background adds value

·       Roles of Board Members – and Executive Boards

·       How to be heard – to express yourself effectively

·       Assertiveness – Not Aggression

·       Getting Noticed in a Positive Powerful Manner

·       Dos and Don’ts of Board Membership

·       Handling Attempts at Sabotage

·       Standing Up to Bullies

·       Board Members relationships with staff

·       Differences between non-profit and corporate boards

Date   Oct. 24, 2018          Time 10 AM – 4 PM

Location:  Restaurant in Santa Clara, CA
Name, Address & Directions given upon registration

Continental Breakfast and Lunch Included

Fee    $250.00 per person if registering before Oct. 10^th (Early Bird)

$300.00 per person after Oct. 10^th.

Pay either @www.DiamondAssociates.net 

or paypal   https://www.paypal.com/cgibin/webscr?cmd=_sxclick&hosted_button_id=L3A7FXDGXBPLN

Bootcamp Leader:           Dr. ArLyne Diamond, founder of Diamond Associates (www.DiamondAssociates.net) who has been an advocate and professional development coach and counselor for women for well over thirty years.

Women on Corporate Boards

It’s happened!   Jerry Brown signed legislation mandating that all corporate boards include having at least one woman serve on it.  This is a remarkable opportunity for all women interested in serving on corporate boards.

I’ve been told by several people that most women are afraid to serve on these boards because they didn’t want to assume that level of responsibility and/or they didn’t feel competent enough.

Let’s disprove that rumor!   Let the men know you are ready and able.

If you want a little extra coaching:   Here’s a one day boot camp – workshop – that might be just what will get you excited about serving with “the big boys.”

WOMEN ON CORPORATE BOARDS
A ONE-DAY BOOTCAMP

PLEASE SHARE THIS FLYER WITH
ALL YOUR HIGH-POWERED WOMEN COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS

Thanks mostly to the #MeToo Movement, California is once again in the Vanguard creating legislation to advance gender equality requiring that at least one woman sit on every corporate board.  Although highly controversial – this is an opportunity for all high powered – fast-tracking women to serve at this level.

It also is the opportunity for those in “soft-skill” fields to participate with mostly “hard-skill” colleagues.  Although every book on board Development (including my own) states the importance of the soft-skill perspective on the board, it is rare to see anyone in those professions, including HR professionals serving on corporate boards.

This one day boot camp is designed to give you the information and skills you will need to serve with “the big boys” and shine.  Among the things you will learn:

·       Basics of Corporate Governance

·       How your Professional Background adds value

·       Roles of Board Members – and Executive Boards

·       How to be heard – to express yourself effectively

·       Assertiveness – Not Aggression

·       Getting Noticed in a Positive Powerful Manner

·       Dos and Don’ts of Board Membership

·       Handling Attempts at Sabotage

·       Standing Up to Bullies

·       Board Members relationships with staff

·       Differences between non-profit and corporate boards

Date   Oct. 24, 2018          Time 10 AM – 4 PM

Location:  Restaurant in Santa Clara, CA
Name, Address & Directions given upon registration

Continental Breakfast and Lunch Included

Fee    $250.00 per person if registering before Oct. 10^th (Early Bird)

$300.00 per person after Oct. 10^th.

Pay either @www.DiamondAssociates.net 

or paypal   https://www.paypal.com/cgibin/webscr?cmd=_sxclick&hosted_button_id=L3A7FXDGXBPLN

Bootcamp Leader:           Dr. ArLyne Diamond, founder of Diamond Associates (www.DiamondAssociates.net) who has been an advocate and professional development coach and counselor for women for well over thirty years.

Stop Bullying:  Teach kids to resolve conflict

As long as we – the parents, teachers, counselors and coaches – continue to make all the decisions for the kids we serve – we are doing them a huge dis-service.

Two children are fighting over the same toy.  Mother takes it away from both of them.  She doesn’t teach them how to talk it over and create a win/win that works for them.

The entire party is purchased:  Dora the Explorer has every moment orchestrated.  The parents control the show.  The eight year old children have no free time at the birthday party.  How do they learn to communicate – to resolve conflict when the entire event is controlled by parents?

Parents supervise almost all activities of children.  Most are not taught how to be a resource and stay in the background unless there is imminent danger.

Children are not taught how to communicate, to negotiate and to resolve conflict themselves.   The more passive are not given the tools to be stronger and the stronger learn they can Bully and get what they want.

Thus many of them become bullies because that’s all they know.  Others have been so coddled that they yield at the first sign of disagreement.

So let’s back off some.  As a prominent psychiatrist once suggested:  “Benign neglect.” 

I grew up in The Bronx.  My parents both worked.  I “hung out” with friends after school and there was no immediate parental supervision.  We kids, probably from the time we were eight, had to make our own decisions, learn how to negotiate the rules of the games we played and how to disagree with each other without losing the friendships.

Today, as an adult, I teach conflict resolution, communication and negotiation.

This could never have happened had I been constantly supervised and controlled.

As a teenager I belonged to a Jewish Service Organization:  B’nai Brith Girls.  I was lucky enough to be part of an organization that had superb paid professional staff.  They taught our adult supervisors how to be a resource in the background.  We girls made all our own decisions.  I learned leadership and public speaking skills during those years because I held various offices in the chapter and region.

As a young adult, I became a youth leader – and was taught how to be helpful without being controlling.  How to be a resource rather than a decision maker.

So, today, I’d like to suggest to all the adults – teach your little ones how to create win/wins out of their disagreements.  Allow your teens to make their own decisions (unless they are potentially dangerous.)\

It’s only when kids learn how to communicate and negotiate will bullying be stopped.