It’s a bit of a Catch-22. To be prepared to be visible, to feel authentic and to advance your career is so much easier when you can follow women who’ve already blazed the trail. It’s so much easier to follow a path that someone has created than to forge your own. And what a hard slog if everyone is doing that!
To make your own path easier, find role models that you can emulate, help others find role models that they can follow, and this will increase your opportunity to be visible.
Reset visibility
Align yourself with this year’s IWD theme of #balanceforbetter. Time for a reset in our thinking. Let’s work on both women’s visibility as leaders, and on men’s visibility as champions for balanced leadership. You can’t be what you can’t see will be an even more powerful catch cry when used to encourage men to add their voices as advocates. Make advocacy visible!
See more in my blog at Procurious.
Procurious is campaigning to improve the visibility of women in procurement and supply chain management. They are showcasing some of the amazing things women are achieving for the profession and inspire others to be visible too! Here’s what you can do:
1.Sign up to join the Bravo group on Procurious
2. Download your very own you can’t be what you can’t see poster from the documents tab in the group
3. Print out the poster and snap a shot of yourself
4. Share the photo via the Bravo group on Procurious
5. Share the photo on Twitter, tagging @Procurious_ and #IWD2019 #BravoWomen and LinkedIn. In your post, nominate a woman in procurement who inspires you and ask her to take part too!
And to get more ideas about how to make progress on the International Women’s Day 2019 #BalanceforBetter, check out these blogs:
- Advocating for inclusion is the best way to get it
- How to free your decisions from bias
- Vacancy! Women’s special place in hell is not required
- How to make progress on gender equality following #metoo
