Panel: Engaging Men in Gender Competence
Moderator: Bonita Banducci, Santa Clara University School of Engineering and Banducci Consulting
Panelists: Faisan Ahmed, Mountz Inc; Motaz Hajaj, Chess Tag; Noé Lozano, Santa Clara University; Scott Lynn, Oracle and Udaya Bhaskar Yalamanchi, EMC
Voices Conference 2014
www.globaltechwomen.com
1. Engaging Men in Gender
Competence
Men and Women
Building Effective Partnerships at Work
Bonita Banducci
650-529-9336 banducci@genderwork.com
www.genderwork.com
www.gendercompetence.com
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Course Objectives
• “Mine the Gold” of each individual of your organization
by understanding gender differences
• Build Collaboration and Innovation by identifying
and permeating organizational culture with new
competencies
• Increase Promotability of people who work effectively
with different communication styles and competencies.
• Enrich Organizational Community Begin a dialogue
for valuing differences to take into the workplace and the
global marketplace.
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What You Will Learn--How To:
• Understand Different Communication Styles, brain
science, perception and logic of men and women and how your
words impact others.
• Create Your Own Solutions to Gender Issues:
eliminate blame and build understanding.
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• Use New Rationales for dealing with persistent obstructions
to organizational effectiveness.
• Acknowledge, Adapt, and Adopt for more effective
communications and innovation.
• Permeate Organizational Culture
with New Competencies—
Empower Different Attributes of Leadership
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Learning Points
• What women know, and they don’t know how they
know it.
• What men know, and they don’t know they really
don’t know.
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Especially for fields of Science Technology Engineering and Math but also for any Individualistic, data-driven organizational culture grounding learning gender differences in science is invaluable. So my approach is
Related to cognitive functioningMen have 6 x more grey matter: localizing brain activity into a single active brain centerMen tend to task-focus on one element or pattern without distraction better than women do. “Just the facts”Women have 10 x more white matter: connecting different brain centers in the neural network greater language facilitation and multitaskingWomen tend often to be able to make crucial connections between widely disparate elements that men don’t make
One in seven men 14 %One in five women are in the middle of the gender/brain spectrum 20 %