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Focus Group – Proyecto: Improving Skills for Women Leadership, WLead

  • Fecha July 13, 2023

The Director of Institutional Relations of Madrid Network welcomed the participants on behalf of Madrid Network and was in charge of leading and energizing the session. After the presentation of the project, the context and the objectives of the Focus Group, they structured the development of the meeting following the presentation prepared by CAMARABELUX for this purpose as part of the methodology to carry out the needs study in this phase.

An important part of the session was dedicated to the introduction and presentation of the participants and a relaxed discussion, surrounding their professional experiences, opinions and comments on the context, needs and challenges, barriers and opportunities they face. women when it comes to developing, maintaining and promoting their professional careers.

The discussion was guided by the questions proposed in the methodology, to focus the conclusions on the evaluation and selection of the key skills to develop and the training tools más adecuadas para hacerlo a través del proyecto WLead. A continuación, se recogen los conceptos que más destacaron durante la sesión.

Key skills to develop

  • Confidence, self-knowledge: “soft skills” as “power skills”
  • Assertiveness: assertive behavior and language (not “asking for permission”)
  • Security: show skills, don't hide, gain visibility, participate
  • Negotiation: Avoid defensiveness, do not demand special treatment, positive confrontation
  • Authenticity (not trying to assume a pre-established role, nor pretending a style that is not your own)
  • Leadership (linked to authenticity, developing your own leadership style)
  • Honesty
  • Individual responsibility: mutual commitment (employer-employee), equity
  • Focus on excellence (personal and professional)
  • Conciliation, balance
  • Motivation
  • Proactivity
  • Independent thinking
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Empathy, listening, emotional intelligence
  • Creativity, providing solutions and ideas
  • Adaptation to new contexts
  • Ability to learn
  • Humility: valuing everyone, with more or less qualifications, knowing how to recognize and integrate the value of each one, including one's own
  • Positive attitude
  • Integrating professional competence and human quality