The NEW Male Champion Kevin A. Carter, President & Founder Inclusion Innovates

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1 The NEW Male Champion Kevin A. Carter, President & Founder Inclusion Innovates

2 Opportunity: Acceleration Accelerate organizational progress by transforming more men, and women, into effective women champions within their companies Gain the mindset, skillset and toolset that aids this transformation Increase support, relationships and networks to sustain and continuously improve this transformation Unlock Your Power! 2

3 Male Champions of Change 3

4 Introductions Name Company Role What is your challenge, or aspiration with respect to advancing women at your company? 4

5 Review: NEW Accelerator Traits - Exercise 1 5

6 Review: Pre-Work: DII-SLA - Exercise 2 6

7 Approach: The NEW Male Champion Mindset Skillset Toolset 7

8 Group Discussion: Mindset: Self-Knowledge Self-Knowledge Participant Responses NEW Accelerator Trait Strengthened 1. Who are my female role models? 2. What is my inspiration, or motivation to advance women? 3. How comfortable am I championing women? 4. What makes me uncomfortable, how do I adjust? 5. What are my professional strengths? 6. Do my strengths both aid and impede women's advancement? 8

9 Group Discussion: Mindset: Knowledge of Others Knowledge of Others Participant Responses NEW Accelerator Trait Strengthened 1. My knowledge of women comes from what experiences? 2. In what situations am I the only male, what have I learned? 3. Have I managed and been managed by women, what I have I learned? 4. How do I foster gender knowledge? 5. What do women want from corporations? 6. What do corporations want from women? 9

10 Group Discussion: Skillset: Adaptability Ability to Adapt Participant Responses NEW Accelerator Trait Strengthened 1. Am I a good listener how do I know? 2. Am I a good observer how do I know? 3. Am I a good communicator how do I know? 4. What was, is or will be my story, or anecdote of gender advancement? 5. How can NEW help? 10

11 Toolset: Aligned Business Planning Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Brainstorm and select one or two team, department or business goals for the remainder of the year. Place those goals in the far left column of the worksheet, each within a separate row Discuss and confirm the business challenge, or question you will be attempting to solve. What is the impact or relevance of gender? Place the business challenge statements you will address within the second column. Discuss and confirm one initiative to address each business challenge. Place the initiative you will develop and execute within the third column. Discuss and confirm your success metric. For example, what would good look like, what would members be saying, or doing, how would things have changed? Place the success metric in the fourth column Review your plan within your network Share preliminary plan with to gain an estimate resources and support needed 11

12 NEW Male Champion Business Plan Organizational Goal Change Needed to Achieve Goal Initiative Metric Cost / Resources / Champion / Advisor Business / Revenue Growth Identify untapped customer and market needs Empower women business resource group (BRG) to grow digital expertise among members in support of company loyalty programs. Increase revenue 10% by targeted demographic by end 2016 $5,000 Marketing support VP, Marketing Product / Process Innovation Increase velocity and volume of ideas generated bottom-up and outside-in Empower women BRG to partner with Innovations department to generate product and process innovations. Identify three viable, commercized ideas to be implement in 2016 $3,000 towards innovation events; VP, Marketing, Product Development Talent Identification Increase women in senior leadership positions Conduct workforce analysis to identify peaks in female representation that are talent pools for higher levels and valleys where representation of females is less than 80% of the internal feeder group. Embed legally appropriate gender balance targets in senior leader scorecards by the end of 2016 $25,000 towards events, contest, travel, etc. EVP, HR; VP, Recruiting / Talent Management 12

13 Group Discussion: NEW Male Champion Business Plan Using prior work, focus on columns 1-3, let s confirm: 1. Identify three organizational goals, or objectives 2. Align three challenges, or aspirations with an appropriate organizational goals 3. Identify an intervention, remedy or initiative to address challenge, or achieve aspiration 4. Complete other columns, time permitting Organizational Goal Challenge, or Aspiration Initiative Metric Cost Resources / Champion / Advisor 13

14 Next Steps Share Roundtable report-outs during Engaging Men that Get It workshop for feedback and update Share collective NEW Champion business plan for feedback and update Confirm networking system, or method to continue to support one another 14

15 Key Takeaways Women advancement is steady, but slow You can accelerate progress within your organization and across industries Acceleration takes the right mindset, skillset and toolset The Network of Women (NEW) is an excellent organization to develop the relationships, support and network for this acceleration. Start building your NEW Male Champion plan. Advancing women betters business! 15

16 Questions / Suggestions 16

17 Thank You! 17