Women's Invisible Leadership

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Maura muriel says she learned early on in her career that visibility was more about bringing other people into the spotlight. A team of researchers at stanford followed groups of women over two years to understand how they navigated work place visibility. They found three main reasons why these groups of women didn't do work place visibility: self promoting, being aggressive and feeding different kinds of family stability. Women recognize that visibility is probablyto going to get them forward, but they also know that visibility is not serving them same way it can serve other actors in the organization.

There are lots of ways to get visibility at work: give a presentation, speak up in a meeting, have lunch with a senior leader. When done well, in front of people with influence, these actions can lead to a promotion, a raise, or more resources for your team. But research shows there are sound reasons women sometimes decide to not be more visible and instead quietly push forward projects or stay behind the scenes.

In this live episode, recorded at Sixth & I in Washington, DC, we get advice from Muriel Maignan Wilkins on navigating the spotlight, offer managers tips on making visibility easier for women, and take questions from the audience.

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