WOMEN OF TRUTH On Sustainability

Highlighting The SDGs 123 and the whole idea of a better world.

 Great points: 

1. Social entrepreneurship building up for change 

2. Balance short and long term targets 

3. Everyone is valuable who are raising awareness - communicating ideas 

4. Partnership is essential - relevance and support 

5. Act with simplicity - litre of light Philippines

6. Womens health issues need more integrative approach 

7. Drive knowledge production implement circular economy  

8. Lack of data, need generate… 

9. Covid-19 Sustainability revolution

10. Data :

- Needs assessment of each country 

- Distribution KPI achievement Monitor      

- Data centralisation

12. Listen to ‘right’ audiences

13. How to include reviews and revisit entire school system

14. Employers support caregivers - home work balance

15. Work flexibility for moms

16. We need a new social contract 

17. How we go about the changes ?          

18. Redefine success

19. Agents that can call for accountability on country level

20. Visit UN website global    

21. Visit UN website global                       

22. Assess you risk assessment                   

23. You need board buy in and use environment, use environmental impact experts                    

24. Assess you risk assessment                   

25. You need board buy in + use environment, use environmental impact experts                    

26. ‘Human capital development’ need to be on the list

27. agricultural greenhouse technological and food sovereignty is important

28. Structural imbalances are reflected in racial inequalities                        

29. People need to be heard so peace is not separate to all the other Sdgs

30. Women must become involved in decision making globally. 

31. Many women mediators are gathering to work together unpack peace and bringing together all the pieces. 

32. We don’t want to win the war on cover, we want to build peace for our future

33. We need to use technology to expose the injustices 

34. Change the narratives about sharing, less divisive more inclusion.

36. Raise the voices

"Thank you Dr Anika for such insightful points that needed to be presented and discussed in more open and safe environment. To be heard and actually to have a dialogue." Justina Pluktaite

"Youth are the real catalysts for change and yes much more resilient than we are. The change in mindsets and the rise of new type of leadership that can drive the SDGs is going to be youth driven, interest is growing and will continue, Thank you Justina for the amazing points you are raising, critically important" Noha Hefny

"We have a mentoring matchmaker post every thursdays in our group, put your comment with offer to mentor or offer an internship please answer the questions to join : https://www.facebook.com/groups/womenoftruthx/ Heleniq Argyrou

"From personal experience of being a student. I think we need to focus firstly on creating this hybrid program but we also need to create more efficient teaching methods online as this semester has shown many difficulties of transition" Chiara Barone-MacDonald

The above highlights were taken from the recent summit WOMEN OF TRUTH on Sustainability

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What Experienced Leaders Need to Know to Succeed

What Skills Do Senior Executives Need?

All new roles come with new responsibilities. But senior-level leaders face unique challenges that are tied directly to the bigger scope of work.

Whether you’re taking on a top job at a small firm, managing a function of a mid-size business, or running a division of a global company, you must lead in ways that build on your experience, but also go beyond it. To be effective, you need specific skills to succeed.

Typically, senior leaders come into the role having been very successful leading a specific area. When promoted or the business changes significantly, you need to learn how to skillfully run a much broader, bigger function where the demands are significantly different than before.

Senior executives face unique challenges, including setting a vision and building toward the future. At the same time, these top leaders experience very real and challenging short-term pressures.

Organizations suffer greatly when senior leaders falter or fail. In spite of this risk, leader development at this level is often overlooked. But with the right training and practice, senior leaders can avoid common pitfalls and meet their organizations’ seemingly divergent needs.

Leadership Skills Needed by Senior Executives: The Fundamental 4

First, leadership success at every level is rooted in the “Fundamental 4” competencies of self-awareness, communication, influence, and learning agility. If you’re an experienced leader, you have developed these skills during your career. But as you advance, you must understand how these 4 skills are applied differently at the senior level.

4 Core Leadership Skills Needed In Every Career :

Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is critical skill needed by senior leaders in an organization. It goes beyond knowing your strengths and weaknesses, your preferences and patterns, and the effect of your behavior on others. At this level, you really need to understand the impact your leadership behavior has on organizational outcomes.

Unfortunately, the higher up the management ladder you go, the less feedback you get. In addition, you may be overusing strengths that were more critical in previous roles.

Have you found continued ways to get frequent, unbiased feedback to keep growing your level of self-awareness?

Communication

Being an effective communicator becomes a more complex leadership challenge for senior executives as heads of functions, business units, and divisions. The logistics of sharing information, often across time zones, cultures and operations, is one challenge. Effectively communicating the goals of the business while at the same time inspiring trust is another challenge.

And encouraging communication and open discussion among managers and employees is also part of your role.

Do you express ideas clearly through what you say and write? Do you share important information, give feedback, and address concerns? How well do you communicate the vision? Can you articulate complex ideas?

Learning Agility

Learning from your experiences and applying that knowledge in new ways is crucial to success for senior leaders. Understanding the limits of your own experience and point of view becomes more important as the scope of your role increases.

For many seasoned executives, this has become second nature. But over-relying on what worked in the past or assuming you have what it takes to be successful in the future can spell trouble. For you, the challenge may be knowing when to change course and having the tools to learn and adapt, not to mention helping others to do the same.

Do you reflect on and learn from experience? Do you continue to seek opportunities to learn? Are you open to others’ perspectives, ideas, and insights?

Influencing

The process of influencing others takes on new dimensions for senior-level leaders as well. You need the ability to influence across vertical, horizontal, stakeholder, demographic, and geographic boundaries.

To be effective at this level, you must be able to delegate effectively. You can’t directly drive the tasks any longer, but instead have to get results through others. You also must be able to persuade, promote, and explain, remaining comfortable with your managerial power. Influencing also involves setting up and engaging an extensive network of peers and contacts.

Are you able to inspire and motivate others to take action? How strong are your networks?

Other Leadership Skills That Senior Leaders Need to Succeed

As a senior leader, you’re no stranger to setting strategy, prioritizing, and managing others. But leading a large function or operation demands something more — it requires that you drive organizational-level results. As you manage a business unit, large function, or divisie