Key Challenges for Women Leaders

The following questions relate to your existing or prior experience as a woman in the corporate environment.

Please answer the questions from your 'gut', without overthinking your response. The research will take no more than 5 mins, and responses remain confidential.


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* 1. I worry about what others think of me and how my performance is perceived.

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* 2. I feel ‘out of my depth’ in my current position but I dare not ask for help.

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* 3. I hate the 'politics' and feeling like I need to 'play the game' to get ahead.

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* 4. I'm so busy I don't even have time for normal life events.

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* 5. I don’t know how to ‘manage up’ effectively.

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* 6. I don’t know how to demonstrate leadership as an introvert.

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* 7. Networking feels so inauthentic, but I know it has to be done.

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* 8. Negotiating a salary or asking for a raise causes me massive anxiety because I don’t know how to clearly express my value, and I don’t quite believe I’ll get what I feel I deserve.

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* 9. I feel the pressure to perform and retain my position by working long, hard hours, losing any sense of life balance.

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* 10. I’m at a crossroads in my career, and I’ve lost all clarity of what I want to do or how to go about getting it.

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* 11. I have some difficult work relationships that I have to navigate and I have no idea how to deal with them

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* 12. I compare myself to others all the time and it makes me second-guess and doubt myself

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* 13. I feel like my lack of self-confidence is dragging me down and holding me back in my career

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* 14. I feel like a complete fraud, and that I’m going to be “found out” as not as competent as people think I am.

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* 15. I miss any sense of work / life balance - I get up, go to work, go home, eat dinner, go to bed, get up...repeat

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* 16. I don’t know what I’m working towards anymore, and I have no sense of possibility or of what I want.

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* 17. I’d love to be able to rise above the politics without letting it affect me so deeply

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* 18. I love my job, and I’m good at it. My personal life? That’s another story.

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* 19. I love my career, and I’m good at it, but I want to explore ways to be a more impactful leader.

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* 20. In fact, my biggest challenge in life or career is...

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* 21. I'm happy to be contacted to discuss my responses.

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