Skyline Group International (a global provider of scalable coaching solutions) has released new research that finds female leaders need more support—especially from other women—to develop a more balanced approach to leadership.
In conjunction with the Organizational Intelligence Institute, Skyline Group surveyed 1,012 men and women with 4 or more years in the workplace, ranging from individual contributors to CEOs, to learn how gender-based behaviors are expressed and perceived in the workplace.
Among 28 leadership competencies studied, men and women agreed that there is a significant and recognizable gender continuum on 27 of them. For each skill, there is a feminine and masculine expression, and which one leaders use in different situations impacts how effective they are and how they are viewed by their peers.