GBG Vitality- Viva Vitality: A Womans Race to Success

Friday, March 12, 2010

A Womans Race to Success

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What do women with drive know that makes them extremely successful?

It helps to ditch the gender mentality. Start first by ridding your mind of debilitating biases against your kind. Even if you belong to a male-dominated industry, think of yourself as an equal contender for recognition and success. Remember: you can make your mark with the right work ethic and ideal frame of mind. Sure, breaking the glass ceiling may be difficult at first and people may even judge you. But later, it doesn’t matter anymore. It all really boils down to how you make your decisions and produce results. And yes, this is regardless of your chromosome composition. If you can’t shake off your own gender perspectives, the least you can do is milk them and take advantage of your femininity to propel you ahead. Besides, it’s good to stand out and be different because people will remember you more.

Moreover, it isn’t enough to merely fill a need. If you want to be a winning entrepreneur, you must also be able to make a worthy product that’ll transform into a want. Transposing this concept into an employee’s world, this means that it isn’t enough to just maintain the status quo. Winners are expected to exceed it. So, aside from studying your market and taking note of what your target clients want and expect, it is also important to pour time and energy into the actual production. Find out the best combo that’ll get you to maximize benefits and minimize costs. Or, learn the techniques needed to help you become a model employee. If you don’t do sound research for your product or skill, you’ll never succeed. Investing attention and effort in developing your skill or perfecting your actual product ensures that you are able to deliver something noteworthy and substantial.

Successful women should know when to be particular.

They put on rigid, meticulous hats when they examine the quality of their own work. In fact, they can sometimes be their own harshest critic. They know that to make a product or skill live up, you must give a fair test that’s free of all biases. Successful people, after all, never tire of testing, testing, and more testing. This belief goes for their fabulous works of art or even working norms they’ve grown accustomed to. Achievers also know when to go back to a drawing board to either change a work habit or re-do a product. What to do with great ideas that just don’t work? Discard them! Winners are mostly this particular because they have to be. They know that only products and skills that make the cut are those that endure the survival of the fittest.

It also helps to know when to delegate. It’s perfectly fine to give work to someone else, but knowledge of what each task entails keeps successful women in the know, allowing them to think up ways to improve the workflow, be more aligned with colleagues, or make the product even more fabulous.

With the overall grasp of work process, the successful woman can oversee and deliver results more effectively.