Over-valuing Expertise

This one we see all the time – especially when women take up new roles!

Even though expertise is important, we know that there’s extra pressure on women to ‘prove ourselves’ when we take up new roles – especially in new organisations – in fact Catalyst Longitudinal  Research has shown that women do better staying with an organisation where they’ve already proven their worth as a lot of moving can mean a lot of proving… we can end up giving as much as a whole year proving ourselves in a new organisation before our expertise is accepted and taken for granted.

All that said, our point here is that, even though women can be somewhat ‘forced’ into putting emphasis on proving their expertise when taking up new roles, we think this is not the best option.