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The 5 Key Personality Traits of Every Successful Woman

All successful leaders inspire, motivate, mentor and direct others toward a higher goal. But let’s be honest, if you’re a woman leader in our male-dominated business world, you’ll have to do more than that. A growing number of women are reaching the top echelons of business and politics. But progress is slow, and the gender gap in leadership remains stubbornly large. A key reason, experts say, is unconscious bias that causes people to react differently to male and female leaders — for instance, among both men and women, male ambition is generally lauded, while female ambition often provokes hostility. Meanwhile, women leaders are expected to be more compassionate, ethical and better at forging compromises than men.

The good news is women do have some important strengths that come with being society’s nurturers. While research shows men more often are top-down, “command-and-control” leaders, women tend to have a more democratic, participative leadership style that experts consider more effective, particularly as collaboration and innovation become more important to competitiveness.

So what are the most important leadership traits women need to be successful in a male-dominated business world? We asked a group of more than 30 women entrepreneurs from around the world. Here’s what they told us:

5 Reasons an Organization Must Have More Female Leaders?

The world is in desperate need of great leaders—whether in business or in politics. Yet, many leadership opportunities are withheld from half of the workforce.

We are talking, of course, about women in leadership. Even with all the progress we’ve made for equality in so many important ways, women are still severely underrepresented in business leadership positions.

When people call for more women in the workplace, it may sound as though they're just trying to meet a quota. Gender diversity, though, could be the key to any company's success. Diversifying a variety of top positions, specifically executive roles, is more than a movement to level the corporate playing field -- it's about using the best resources to maximize every organization's potential.

Here are just five reasons why promoting and supporting female leaders should be a top priority for all organizations.

1. Having Women in Leadership Will Help Close the Pay Gap

The gender pay gap is a maddening phenomenon that has persisted despite decades of progress in the workplace.

In reality, there isn’t just a gender pay gap—there’s a gender opportunity gap. According to the PayScale article referenced above, women and men start their careers making roughly the same amount of money for the same work, but men are offered more opportunities to advance into higher-paying leadership positions. Halfway through their careers, men are 70% more likely to be in executive positions than women, and towards the end of their careers, men are 142% more likely to fill the offices of the C-suite than women.

2. Promote a Welcoming Culture

Creating more opportunities for women starts with creating a more inclusive environment. Any specific efforts to recruit women to leadership roles in corporate settings are useless if companies don't encourage a work culture where they can succeed.

Some initial steps to creating this culture are to focus mainly on education and experience in the hiring process, offer salaries based on the market rate rather than salary history, and start rewarding outcomes achieved instead of hours worked. Each of these guidelines could build the foundation for gender equality in the workplace, thus creating an environment where women can thrive in leadership roles.

3. Women Are Brilliant Mentors

Currently, one of the obstacles women face is that men are less likely to mentor women than they are to mentor other men.

On the other hand, women are much more likely to mentor other women than they are men. The solution isn’t to have men only mentor men and women only mentor women. That would be insanity. But by having more women in leadership positions, you’re setting them up to be brilliant mentors of the next generation of women leaders. And by encouraging successful men to fill the role of mentor for aspiring women leaders, we get even closer to equality in the workplace. It has to be a team effort, or gender disparities will continue to persist.

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How Our Lifestyle Has Been Drastically Changed Due To COVID-19

The coronavirus pandemic is not just a global crisis, but an event that has changed the world forever. When the pandemic will end and people around the globe will finally come out of their homes, they will have something vital to ponder on—where we will go from here? There will be two paths in front of us. One path that leads to nowhere, where we will keep running in circles. The other one, a road to a better future where humanity will thrive and prosper. It will be up to us to decide which path we take.

The outbreak of the pandemic has made one thing clear. We are all equal in the eyes of nature. Everyone has been hit by the outbreak just the same. A world once obsessed with luxury goods suddenly rushed to stock up on essentials. Behind the protective face masks and gloves, everyone was equally scared and worried. The priority was health, rest was secondary.

Examples of compassion and kindness are all over the internet. Togetherness has found a new meaning in this difficult time. Qualities that we as a community have rekindled on a global level will not disappear even when the virus does.

Here are some drastic changes we are facing right now in our lifestyle:

1. The Way We Greet.

Elbow Greetings

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initially urged people to opt for an elbow bump over a handshake, greetings have now altogether become a no go, as people has been asked to maintain social distancing, or 6 feet, at all times and the majority have been asked not to leave their homes except for essential needs, such as medical care, groceries or exercise.

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