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Welcome back to Monday Matters! This week Jen Schwanke and Will Parker are sharing some lessons learned from doing PD with school leaders. They talk about some of the strengths that leaders who are women bring to the table, as well as strengths that leaders who are men bring to the table. During their conversation, Will and Jen discuss an article from the Harvard Kennedy School called “The Advantage of Women”. A few highlights from their discussion of the article are:
- Studies show women are more likely to use collaboration
- Bring more creative and sustainable solutions
- More willing to seek solutions that benefit everyone
- More able to grasp complexities of issues
- More effective conflict attributes than men
- Less ego-driven
- More empathetic
- More willing to recognize other’s pain
- More willing to apologize
- More tuned in to trust
- More willing to be called upon to mediate disputes
Will also brings up a blog post he wrote in 2013 called 5 Ways to Maintain Sanity in Stressful Times, and he and Jen discuss a TED Talk by Margaret Hefferman. Listen in for more takeaways!
