The Gender Penalty: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities for Women at Work

For: HR, L&D, Leaders, and Women at Work

Purpose: This book will help you not only overcome the gender penalties on the field, but also change the game of work for good – for yourself and other women.

What the book is about

Feeling undervalued, overlooked or ignored at work?

• Want practical strategies to get ahead?

• Want to succeed as a woman without changing who you are?

Work is a game originally developed by men, for men. Though the players have changed, the rules to succeed have not. When today’s talented women play like men, they often get punished for not being ‘ladylike’, and when they play like women, they can get punished for not being ‘leaderlike’. Welcome to the gender penalties that sideline women from the game of work.

The Gender Penalty is a playbook for navigating career success in a male-dominated environment. If you want to stand out without stepping on toes, get what you want without compromising who you are, and make your mark without becoming someone you’re not, this book is for you.

The gender penalties covered are:

• Confidence – being seen as arrogant

• Communication – being interrupted, talked over or ignored

• Boasting – being expected to be humble

• Strength – being seen as aggressive

• Motherhood – being seen as uncommitted to work

Packed with easy-to-follow practical strategies, insights, case studies and stories, (and a bunch of bonus resources) this book will help you not only overcome the gender penalties on the field, but also change the game of work for good – for yourself and other women.

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When Men Lead Women: Navigating the Facts, Fears and Frustrations of Gender Equality as a Male Leader

For: HR, L&D, Leaders, and of course, Men

Purpose: To provide the pathway forward for a new dialogue between men and women

This is a pocketbook about the unspoken responses of men to the rise of women at work. Men are grappling with their place in the fight for gender equality. They have questions, concerns, fears, and curiosities, about their presence and purpose in this issue, and are not always sure how to enter into discussions with sensitivity and support. Not all of their thoughts feel safe to explore in general discussion, without seeming sexist, ignorant or unsupportive.

This book is an attempt to surface the conversations that feel taboo, that may be unpopular, and perhaps a little too controversial to say out loud. It's an opportunity for men (and women) to engage in real dialogue and get answers to the questions they're hesitant to ask. Without a safe space to explore and understand the role men play in striving for equality, society as a whole will remain stuck in the status quo.

The ideas in this book provide the pathway forward for a new dialogue between men and women: A dialogue where blame and fear are replaced with clarity and courage, and men feel not only encouraged to get involved, but crucial to the cause.

Price: $14.95 (Price includes GST)

Developing Direct Reports: Taking the guesswork out of leading leaders

For: Leaders, HR consultants and coaches

Purpose: To help leaders develop leaders.

Human behaviour is complex. Developing leadership in others takes more than knowing the theory and authorising the training budget. Bringing out the best in your people can be challenging and time consuming.

Written for leaders who lead leaders, this book addresses the 12 most common, globally recognised leadership derailers.

Packed with examples, insights and recommendations, and supported by a practical framework, this book shows you how to:

• understand what’s really driving the dysfunctional behaviours you observe

• become a catalyst for behaviour change that sticks

• take the guesswork out of developing your direct reports.

It’s time to empower your leaders to get out of their own way; realise their potential; and deliver on individual, team and organisational goals.

With her co-authors—fellow leadership experts Corrinne Armour and Belinda Cohen—Anneli is on a mission to take the guesswork out of developing direct reports and this book shows you how.

‘Developing Direct Reports’ is also the topic of one of Anneli’s keynotes, and the basis of a training program that helps leaders develop leaders.

Buy now in Australia - $29.95

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Cracking the code for workshop performance: Facilitating the change that matters

For: Accredited iWAM consultants

Purpose: To help you quickly build effective iWAM workshops that will delight your clients and grow your business.This is a specialist reference guide for a specific audience – iWAM consultants.
 
Anneli, and her co-authors Belinda Cohen and Corrinne Armour, are recognised globally for the client experiences they have created based on motivational profiling the iWAM (Inventory of Work Attitudes and Motivations) system.
 
Written in response to interest and requests from international colleagues, 'Cracking the Code for Workshop sets out methodology for quickly building effective workshops that delight clients. It provides a trusted framework with step-by-step instructions for over 60 training activities.  To support consultants in delivering the activities, there are print-ready participant handouts (eg puzzles, images, case studies, scripts, instruction sheets). Each activity also includes a comprehensive set of debrief questions guaranteed to provoke discussion, stimulate layered learning, and maximize engagement.
 
This Guide has also been purchased and used successfully by consultants who use other profiling instruments.

Insight into action: Coaching the change that matters

For: Accredited iWAM consultants

Purpose: To help support the continued development of a coaching client after the iWAM coaching debrief is complete.

Drawing on their recognised specialist expertise in motivational profiling, Anneli, and her co-authors Belinda Cohen and Corrinne Armour have developed this resource for accredited iWAM (Inventory of Work Attitudes and Motivations) consultants. This guide helps support the continued development of a coaching client after the iWAM coaching debrief is complete.
 
This guide is a trusted reference in locations as diverse as US, Russia, Italy, UK, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Maritius and of course Australia. It includes 52 stand-alone self-coaching pages that provide the consultant’s client with a targeted reference to embed the learning and insights

Leaders who ask: Building a Fearless Culture by telling less and asking more

When we tell people what to do, they may listen, but they are unlikely to commit to action and are even less likely to remember. When we ask great questions that lead to insight, there’s an emotional component triggered in the brain that leads to commitment and accountability. The leader who asks uses these strategies and more to connect deeply, lead fearlessly and achieve results that transform.

If you are leader who relates to one or more of these challenges, you need this book:

• Having all the answers and needing to be in control feels like hard work

• Staff engagement is patchy and not everyone is on board

• Leadership bench-strength is lacking

• Results are inconsistent, with people not following through on their commitments

• Your team is performing well and yet you know more is possible

Leaders who ask leverage coaching capabilities and questioning techniques to create Fearless Cultures.

Buy now in Australia - $25.00

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Raise your voice: Transforming how you speak, sing and present

For:  Professionals

Purpose:  To assist individuals who want to speak up more confidently

An excellent resource for building confidence and competence with your voice, featuring an excerpt by Anneli Blundell entitled, "Advice from a woman of the world." Anneli is referred to in this book as 'petite yet unafraid to take command' and offers her top tips from coaching professionals for the last decade on how to increase their visibility, authority, and presence in the workplace.

EFFECTIVE LEADERS Four attributes that underpin the core characteristics of effective leadership

For: Emerging and Experienced leaders

Purpose: This companion book continues the journey identified within Mike’s first book The Emerging Leader by offering numerous narratives, from currently active and experienced leaders, based on the seven core characteristics of effective leadership. However, whilst highlighting the importance of building Trust, the reader is encouraged to lead with their own blend of the four key attributes; which are Respect, Courage, Integrity and Agility.

In the chapter dealing with Respect: - Culture and Inclusion, Anneli Blundell offers a thought-provoking contribution with a piece entitled “Healing Begins with Hearing” which she had written in recognition of the 2021 NAIDOC week’s theme, during July 4-11: ‘heal our country, heal our nation’. Anneli’s post resonated with Mike’s lived experience and he sought her permission to include it within this book.

Talent Management – A focus on excellence

For: HR, OD, Leaders, Consultants 

Purpose: To assist organisations to manage human resources in a knowledge economy.

An excellent resource on Talent Management featuring a case study by Anneli Blundell. "Anneli Blundell, co-author of Insight to Action: Coaching the change that matters (2014) uses the iWAM to support her Executive Coaching, particularly for interpersonal influence and communication effectiveness. Anneli relies on the surgical precision of the iWAM to help clients to separate behavior from intention and to decode people and performance dynamics in the workplace."

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Do  women really need help to progress? - A practical look at 5 invisible forces that shape women in leadership

For: HR, L&D, Leaders

Purpose:  to positively impact the gender agenda in the workplace

This whitepaper explores the issue of gender equality in the working world by looking at the 5 invisible forces that shape women in leadership:

1. The system is stuck: Bias, babies and boys’ clubs

2. Social backlash and double-binds: Women are damned if they do and damned if they don’t

3. Waiting for permission, perfection and a tap on the shoulder

4. Women against women: The enemy within

5. Men don’t feel the effects: How power blinds us

Growing leaders: Leadership development done differently

For: HR, L&D, Leaders

Purpose: To help leaders understand the importance of developing performance on the job.

This white paper explores why leadership development needs to change, why developing performance needs an upgrade and why the knowing-doing gap must be closed in order for leaders to grow other leaders more effectively.

Sticky Learning Guide: A resource to leverage learning

For: Participants of training programs, HR & OD Leaders 

Purpose: To embed learning and make new habits stick.

This guide explores the latest in learning theory and brain science to help you hack your own learning strategy. Packed with tips and tricks it provides a road map for sustainable behaviour change to leverage learning and make the new skills stick.

Clever but clueless – When technical competence impedes influence

For: Leaders of technical specialists or technical leaders

Purpose: To support the development of influence and engagement skills in technical thinkers

This white paper covers the key communication traps technically focused leaders fall into and how to combat them. 

Growing future leaders – The hard truths and hot principles of effective leadership development

For: HR, L&D, Leaders

Purpose: To uncover the hard truths and hot principles of effective leadership.

This white paper explores why leadership development is broken. It compares traditional leadership development with tractional leadership development which is aimed at developing performance on the job.