Have confidence in abilities and skills. Personal and professional experience, particularly in dealing with change management, individual differences, interpersonal communications, leadership, prioritization, project management and multi-tasking. Fight for credibility in all work situations. Again, what we found is that the strategies women use to navigate in the new economy are powerful ones. Women tap into their inner capacity to adapt, be flexible, and at the same time, maintain a broader perspective to cope with working in the new economy.
Women also know how to reach out and ask for help from others, and to help others grow and develop.
We sense this is the women s version of the old-boys network. For women, it goes beyond making contacts, it is about genuine reciprocity and helping others, as a way to equalize the playing field. Women develop through their relationships with others and find peer support and networking a natural extension of how women negotiate the world. We hypothesize that women s use of technology to network will also help level the playing field. Now that women can network on line, they don t have to take more precious time from their already crowded workweek to attend evening networking meetings.