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E030: Empowering and Creating an Equitable Workplace with Shelley Zalis
How do you create an equitable workplace in the face of COVID and all the other social issues our country is facing right now? Today’s guest is Shelley Zalis, the CEO of The Female Quotient, and she talks about how you can empower people and create a more equitable workplace that applies to everyone.
Shelley Zalis is an internationally renowned thought leader, movement maker, and champion of equality. She is a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25.
Shelley is creating space for women in the workplace to have these conversations and closing the gaps with conscious leaders around party policy and pipeline. She started her company 34 years ago when she was 24 years old, at a time when there were not a lot of people having these conversations about empowering and mentoring people. Today, as CEO of The Female Quotient, Zalis works with Fortune 500 companies and impact organizations to advance equality in the workplace.
Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:
Episode Highlights:
Forging the Path to Create What You Want
A lot of people wait and watch but you’ve got to make your bed and create the life you want to live and surround yourself with the people you want to be around. We all have choices, but the fear of failure is one of the things that inhibit people from taking those steps.
How You Can Empower People to Take Risks
Failure is a risk. And if you don't take risks, there's no reward. If you don't take risks, you're perpetuating the status quo.
The first is always the innovator and the one that takes the risk. It usually fails because there's no echo system built around it. You have to make mistakes before you can find the solutions but you don't have the money.
The second is always the copycat – they copy everything you do, but they don't really know what's under the hood. The third is the sweeper and they win.
Now, you have to be all three. You need to be the first and make some mistakes. You need to be the second – copy yourself, but do it a little better. And then you need to be the third because you've already built an ecosystem, and you're not going to lose at your own game. There's always a solution, you just have to find it. Embrace failure as the greatest step forward because that’s your opportunity.
How to Create a More Equitable Workplace
It's about choice. But when we make it elective, bias barriers kick in. COVID created another dimension to work-life balance. There is no such thing as balance. It's not 50/50 because you have many dimensions in your work, your career, your family, your community, your friends, and yourself. Then add homeschooling to the equation. It's therefore important for companies to start creating policies and benefits that should apply to everyone. For instance, two days a week in an office and three days a week at home.
Links to Resources:
The Female Quotient
www.SharpeAlliance.com
www.TheReinventionExchange.com
RE:INVENT YOUR LIFE! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Available on Amazon Books and Apple Books
www.TheReinventionExchange.com
THE POWER OF REINVENTION Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, Anchor and more...
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How do you create an equitable workplace in the face of COVID and all the other social issues our country is facing right now? Today’s guest is Shelley Zalis, the CEO of The Female Quotient, and she talks about how you can empower people and create a more equitable workplace that applies to everyone.
Shelley Zalis is an internationally renowned thought leader, movement maker, and champion of equality. She is a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25.
Shelley is creating space for women in the workplace to have these conversations and closing the gaps with conscious leaders around party policy and pipeline. She started her company 34 years ago when she was 24 years old, at a time when there were not a lot of people having these conversations about empowering and mentoring people. Today, as CEO of The Female Quotient, Zalis works with Fortune 500 companies and impact organizations to advance equality in the workplace.
Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:
Episode Highlights:
Forging the Path to Create What You Want
A lot of people wait and watch but you’ve got to make your bed and create the life you want to live and surround yourself with the people you want to be around. We all have choices, but the fear of failure is one of the things that inhibit people from taking those steps.
How You Can Empower People to Take Risks
Failure is a risk. And if you don't take risks, there's no reward. If you don't take risks, you're perpetuating the status quo.
The first is always the innovator and the one that takes the risk. It usually fails because there's no echo system built around it. You have to make mistakes before you can find the solutions but you don't have the money.
The second is always the copycat – they copy everything you do, but they don't really know what's under the hood. The third is the sweeper and they win.
Now, you have to be all three. You need to be the first and make some mistakes. You need to be the second – copy yourself, but do it a little better. And then you need to be the third because you've already built an ecosystem, and you're not going to lose at your own game. There's always a solution, you just have to find it. Embrace failure as the greatest step forward because that’s your opportunity.
How to Create a More Equitable Workplace
It's about choice. But when we make it elective, bias barriers kick in. COVID created another dimension to work-life balance. There is no such thing as balance. It's not 50/50 because you have many dimensions in your work, your career, your family, your community, your friends, and yourself. Then add homeschooling to the equation. It's therefore important for companies to start creating policies and benefits that should apply to everyone. For instance, two days a week in an office and three days a week at home.
Links to Resources:
The Female Quotient
www.SharpeAlliance.com
www.TheReinventionExchange.com
RE:INVENT YOUR LIFE! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Available on Amazon Books and Apple Books
www.TheReinventionExchange.com
THE POWER OF REINVENTION Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, Anchor and more...