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Is she a value threat to you? Keep her out
Article 15/05/12 A new study from Washington University in St. Louis revealed that women in high profile management roles often do not support other qualified female candidates as potential colleagues. The author, Mic
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Yonda Poslavsky
Column 23/09/10 Four relatively simple questions keep us sharp in terms of priorities and responsibilities. They are handy in determining whether or not our expectations are realistic. Yonda says in res
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It's a whole lot easier when you do it together!!
Lydia Duijvestijn
Blog 20/08/10 For technical professionals there are three levels of certification; level 1 accreditation, is fairly easy to achieve for a good professional; level 2, certification, is more difficult to achieve as i
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In the spotlight: Liesbeth van de Garde, Senior policy advisor HRM, NWO
Video 27/06/11 LEAP is about connecting and inspiring. Watch this film in which Liesbeth van de Garde shares her life motto with us! It will most certainly inspire you and make you proud of her courage to be t
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In the Tiara spotlight: Gabrielle Kalkwijk
Article 23/04/12 A lot of LEAP-members have enjoyed coaching sessions from Tiara. Recently these exceptional women's coaches have put Gabrielle Kalkwijk in the spotlight in their Tiara Spotlight series. Read all a
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Mijntje Lückerath: Towards a balanced composition?
Mijntje Lückerath-Rovers
Column 12/07/10 Will Dutch corporates manage to have 30 percent women in their executive and supervisory boards without government interference such as quotas? Dr Mijntje Luckerath-Rovers rev
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Professional women's networks not effective unless…..
Article 16/04/12 Professional women are “lukewarm” about the effectiveness of women’s networks at work. According to a new study of the Simmons School of Management the majority of middle to se
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Employee 2.0 versus previous generations
Yonda Poslavsky
Column 07/05/10 Marjolein wanted to work part-time, but has decided against it after elder colleagues gave her ‘the ins and outs on how hard their generation fought to be accepted in the workforce
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Article 02/04/12 There is a radio commercial in which somebody asks her boss: Could you tell me how long it will take till I am the manager? I’ve been here almost three months and I want to know what mortgage I
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Are we responsible for our own lives?
Betsy Sobiech
Column 26/11/09 When we accomplish an inspiring goal like getting a promotion, running a marathon, publishing a book, or raising successful children it’s easier to say, “Yes, I am responsible for
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Sponsor or Mentor? You need both
Article 26/03/12 Some thought leaders argue that sponsorship is more of a semantic difference than a practical one when compared with traditional mentorship. Yet many diversity experts emphasize that the roles are qui
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Lifehacking: One week at a time, please!
Taco Oosterkamp
Column 22/10/09 Every week our partners at lifehacking.nl blog about personal growth and office tips. In their Leapwomen.com premiere, Taco Oosterkamp discusses planning your to-do-list effectively.
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Article 19/03/12 Navigating office politics can be tricky – but there are tactics women can employ to avoid playing games and climb the corporate ladder successfully and graciously. Here are five pieces of advic
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Non-executive directorships: why?
Margot Scheltema
Column 08/10/09 It used to be simple. One transmogrified from an executive into a non-executive member of the Board around retirement date...
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Keywords in Résumé Lead to Interviews
Article 15/03/12 Eighty percent of all submitted résumés (and 100 percent of résumés sent to Fortune 1000 companies) get scanned by software commonly known as an applicant-tracking system (
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Reputations: managing your most valuable asset
Karin Roeleveld
Column 08/10/09 A reputation is one of your most valuable corporate assets. And as the saying goes: It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. Every week Karin Roelevel
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7 steps to make difficult conversations easier
Article 05/03/12 Coach Henna Inam shared some very useful tips that will make a difficult conversation easier in a recent blog for theglasshammer. Many situations you find yourself in call for conservations to be had.
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Betsy Sobiech
Column 07/09/09 The idea is that we can create a life where we are inspired to do every single thing we do every day. Immediately the idea is confronting. The first thing that pops into our minds is o
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Gain leadership experience on a non-profit board
Article 28/02/12 What options do you have when you’re feeling stuck at work? Ann Daly, the executive coach behind Women Advance, hears from a lot of women they can’t find a way to make the leap from
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Corporate talent programs fall short
Article 06/02/12 Despite a new wave of uncertainty, many leading companies are pressing forward and reshaping their talent strategies. Many executives foresee leadership shortages in the year ahead and are looking at
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From VP tot Boss of Me: Rethinking career choices
Article 30/01/12 After years of paying dues to become a senior executive, partner, or board member in their respective industries, an increasing number are deciding that it’s not what they really want after all.
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Black and white or shades of grey? Decide!
Article 19/01/12 An experiment by researchers at the University of Warwick has found evidence that men tend to make black-or-white judgements when women are more prone to see shades of grey in choices and decisions. T
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7 tips to get on an international board
Article 09/01/12 Broaden your horizon by getting an international board seat. Companies are struggling to get their target-number of female board members. Supply seems to be unable to keep up with demand. This opens u
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Article 06/01/12 Carla Smits-Nusteling maakte deze week bekend dat zij per 1 april 2012 opstapt als CFO van KPN, omdat ze zich volgens het persbericht ‘ uiteindelijk niet kan vinden in de wijze van b
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To cry or not to cry? Votes for or against weepy (fe)male politicians
Article 12/12/11 Elsa Fornero, Italian's minister of Welfare, recently couldn't hold herself back . She broke into tears when explaining the harsh measures Italy had to approve to relieve its debt. Genui
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Facing hurdles in the boardroom
Article 05/12/11 When we read about women in the boardroom, it is often about their absence rather than their presence. Facing the challenges to even get a board seat, we hear little about the obstacles that wom
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Article 28/11/11 Does your company have employees who quit because they are not being treated well by management? The definition of a good boss has changed drastically over time. Previously, a boss who provided satisf
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Working moms feel guilty, stay-at-home moms too
Article 28/11/11 The Working Mother Research Institute recently completed a new survey examining what women are choosing when it comes to work and life. And, crucially, why? One of the more surprising results is that
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Inclined to always say Yes? 5 reasons to say No
Article 21/11/11 Very often, women try hard to please everybody, from bosses to clients, but it’s not always the most productive way to get ahead in your career. Saying “no” can actually open up oppo
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5 Tips on finding the right mentor
Article 21/11/11 People who have a sponsor behind them are more likely to ask their boss for a “stretch” assignment and are more likely to ask for raises than those without one. But landing the right perso
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Strategies for Self-Promotion without the Backlash
Article 15/11/11 The best strategy to get a raise is to make your achievements known around the office. Seems simple enough, right? Let your co-workers know about a deal that went your way. Be sure to get credit for i
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10 secrets of successful leaders
Article 07/11/11 Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a manager, the skills and talents necessary to guide your team in the right direction can be simple. Anyone with the determination can develop them. Here’
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5 Tips to remember next time you negotiate a raise
Article 07/11/11 Negotiating for higher compensation can be stressful even under the best of circumstances. But in times of economic uncertainty, broaching the subject of a raise from your employer can feel even more
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Indrukwekkende CVs in Opzij Top-100
Article 31/10/11 Vorige week presenteerde Opzij de Top-100 van invloedrijke vrouwen in tien categorieën, variërend van sport en cultuur tot politiek en bedrijfsleven. Op de lijst komen bekende namen vo
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Four ways women unintentionally stunt their careers
Article 24/10/11 Low self-confidence stunt the careers of women. With small adjustments in how they think and act can women improve not only how confident they seem, but how confident they feel. This is the es
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7 tips for leadership success - for introverts
Article 17/10/11 Are you an introvert? That’s good. In these days of uncertainty and a fast changing world, introverts have a good chance of succeeding. Just understand your strengths and use them to your advant
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What happens if your sponsor leaves the company?
Article 10/10/11 There has been a lot of attention for the importance of sponsorship for women. Why you need one, how to be one, find one…But one question remains: What if you lose her? Melissa Anderson has som
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CEO me!, handboek voor ambitieuze vrouwen -- en mannen
Article 10/10/11 ‘Topvrouwen zijn hot. Er worden beleidsboeken over volgeschreven, stichtingen voor opgericht, charters voor ondertekend, prinsessen met de haren bij gesleept en subsidiepotten opengetrokken voor
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Tips from McKinsey: Changing companies' minds about women
Article 26/09/11 Your company has trouble retaining promising women or promoting them into top jobs. Structural changes, such as “flextime,” aren’t helping enough; they do little to add
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Funny Simple High Performance model
Article 12/09/11 We found this simple high performance model, made up by Dan McCarthy on his website www.greatleadershipbydan.com.
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Study Shows Sponsorship is Key to Women's Success
Article 05/09/11 For women especially, it takes more than meeting expectations to get noticed in the workplace. Female employees who work hard and play by the rules are often overlooked when it comes to plum assignmen
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What HR Managers Never Tell You
Article 29/08/11 Sometimes, what you don’t know about HR Managers – because they never tell you – might hurt you. We read through several lists of tricks and tips and made a selection for those
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How Transformational Leaders Manage a Really, Really Bad Day
Article 22/08/11 The stock market is a roller coaster. You find out you’re not going to hit the numbers for the quarter. More people you know are out of jobs. Congress can’t seem to agree on what they want
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5 questions you should ask during a job interview
Article 01/08/11 Everyone with any interviewing experience knows that before an interview you must do some research, but many still fail to prepare for one crucial part. At any interview an interviewer is going to ask
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Five people that should be on your personal board of directors
Article 18/07/11 Direction and guidance are two things that are always helpful in the business world, whether you’re a seasoned professional with years of experience under your belt – or you’re worki
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The Future of Finance Leadership
Article 18/04/11 How can aspiring Group CFOs ensure that they are well prepared to meet the future challenges of the role? These nine steps will bring them closer to their goal, reveals a recent study by
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Article 17/01/11 Is this the year you’re going to make your move? A high-profile assignment, or client? That promotion you’ve been coveting? A relocation? The top company in your industry, or one outside o
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Liselore’s life and work with social media
Article 30/09/10 We all have new media and social media at our disposal. But how do they fit in the new way of working and communicating? IBM’s
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‘LEAP-women more social media savvy than organisation
Article 16/09/10 The results of the Social Media Profiler, a study to understand how women leaders use new ways of communicating and collaborating, reveal that while LEAP-women are pioneer users of social m
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Photo impression Connected Ambition Event 14 sep 2010
Article 14/09/10 LEAP proudly pronounces that the Connected Ambition Event was a success. A brief look at the evaluation forms made it clear that the audience was very enthousiastic: scores were between 7 and 10!
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Change Consultancy with Maaike Kamphuis
Article 09/09/10 As an HR change consultant at IBM, Maaike Kamphuis focuses on collaboration at work and bringing people together, irrespective of their physical location, department or position.
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‘Self-Leadership is a continuous path’
Article 25/08/10 Bianca Heiszwolf has been in marketing management at Philips for almost ten years. She’s presently Consumer Marketing Director Kitchen Appliances. Bianca was literally on her way out for
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LEAP Ambition event: The Speakers (3) Berend Jan Hilberts
Article 25/08/10 An associate partner of Executive Learning Partnership (ELP) and head of ELP’s Social Media Leadership Lab practice, Berend Jan Hilberts is a strategist at heart. He’s one of the s
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Activating the future by building ‘Brand Me’
Article 08/05/10 The output generated at the LEAP leadership event in March shows that we need a distinctively different next generation business model if women are to lead the way. ELP’s Brand Me
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Creating the leadership landscape
Article 08/05/10 At the LEAP Leadership event powered by Philips, on 4 March keynote speaker
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UK female lawyers unhappy over work/life balance
Article 07/04/10 Some 42 percent of female solicitors enjoy their work, but they are unhappy with the working arrangements and opportunities for promotion, a survey conducted by King's Col
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Peggy Klaus: The hard truth about soft skills
Article 31/03/10 What’s the hard truth? Soft skills get little respect but can make or break your career. Yet unfortunately, most people learn them the hard way!
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BusinessWeek survey: 2010 leadership trends
Article 31/03/10 Positioning for the future, strategic thinking leaders, a bigger role for women and more room for social responsibility. These are some of the leadership trends BusinessWeek has spotted in
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LEAP premiere: our very own ‘LEAPtube’
Article 22/03/10 In 'We met the leaders and get connected' we promised you video postings of what executives and LEAP-members have to
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Quotas fight symptom, not cause
Article 22/03/10 The best way to increase the number of women on boards is to ensure that more women gain the right experience further down the corporate hierarchy, analyses The Economist.
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2009 is drawing to a close – time to reflect!
Article 18/12/09 Today’s world, with its myriad possibilities of connection offered by transport and technology, is a highly sensitive network system. Avivah Wittenberg-Cox calls this ‘From Pyramids t
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Article 17/12/09 One of the topics in the debate on diversity at KPN concerns women moving into higher positions. The future generation of women in top jobs is therefore crucially important. Which in-house talents do
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Article 27/10/09 Only slight increase in women on the BoardOn October 22nd, the third Dutch ‘Female Board Index 2009’ was published. This index provides an over
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Article 13/10/09 ‘Virtual networks hold the future’“So this is how women must have felt all these years when attending another male dominated leadership event,” laugh
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Article 08/10/09 It’s not the woman in the fight...but the fight in the woman that counts. If you are convinced that change is needed you should con
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Boo-boos, goofs, gaffs, blunders
Article 08/10/09 Naming an oil company Nigaz; selling Ghettopoly: and interviewing the wrong ‘expert’. At some point in our career everybody makes a bloomer. Tell us yours, so we can learn from your m
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Homogeneous board = groupthink = risk
Article 07/10/09 Data show that the Executive Boards and the Supervisory Boards of Dutch listed companies repeatedly show similar demographic details. This article argues that a too homogeneous board leads to gro
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WomeninIT awards for female role models in ICT
Article 07/10/09 On the 3rd of November 2009 WomeninIT will award 3 prices for female role models in ICT...
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LEAP Inspiration Event a success!
Article 17/09/09 On Thursday, 10 September, some 250 women came together at Loyens & Loeff to celebrated the launch of LEAP! With speakers, panel discussions and workshops, and a nice glass of wine afterwards. Tak
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Article 09/09/09 A female top manager working for an international company got a new position in the company. To properly prepare for her new function, she asked a Phyleon coach for a few sessions.
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"Connecting people" as part of KPN's CSR programme
Article 09/09/09 KPN connects people. We do this by supplying products and services that enables people to get in touch with each other. Our socially responsible activities do this as well.
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Article 07/09/09 Want a better performing company? Develop a better performing board.Smart public and private companies worldwide are monitoring board performance through regular evaluation and self-
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Improved corporate governance with women
Article 04/09/09 Research shows that women in boards improve governance, but not firm performance. The media focused on the bad news (no increased performance). Instead, we should be focusing on the good news (improve
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