4 Easy Ways to Help Women Succeed in Business

1. 4 Easy Ways to Help Women Succeed in Business Listed below are some concrete suggestions for lending your skills and professional connections to female business owners and answering their questions like how to set up my business in Sharjah. Reaching out to other women's business enterprise councils, top executives, and Pipeline Angels for their input has provided us with this idea and made us design the roadmap. 1. Give a platform to women whose opinions are rarely heard. When women make suggestions in the business women’s council, they often feel ignored and even more so when a male coworker later claims the idea as his own and wins the team's support. Actively attributing ideas to the source helps to raise attention to this issue. The women who worked in President Obama's administration came up with the idea of "amplification" as a way to encourage one another. When one woman offered a new perspective or a potential solution, the others would echo her words to emphasize her point. This made it easier for the original idea's female proponent to be acknowledged by the group. 2. Invite a woman to join your group by helping her climb the rungs of the social ladder. Women hold a small percentage of top executive positions. Find other women in your field who are making progress and help them out; be an ally to them by advocating for promotions, mentoring their careers, or coaching them through a life decision. Starting by inspiring young women in classrooms and lecture halls is a good place to begin.

2. Several women gave a talk at Columbia University's Business Women's Leadership Conference to a group of driven young women about the value of supporting one another in the pursuit of professional and personal goals. You could form a mentoring program specifically for women at your workplace or university, or seek out an existing one. Advocating for a female colleague in a business set-up in Sharjah can be as simple as getting together once a month to talk about strategies for dealing with challenging situations at work, making a career change, or lobbying for a raise. I've seen some of the strongest advocates and mentors in senior jobs of women who are able to speak out for other hardworking and brilliant women by providing them with constructive criticism and encouragement at pivotal points in their careers. Despite the common perception that women fill this job, Nicole Faurot, a partner, and investor at Marlowe Partners and a member of Pipeline Angels, notes that men are perfectly capable of doing so. 3. Use your social media connections to help them get the word out. Some businesswomen in Sharjah have an innate talent for network marketing, while others excel at fostering online communities and encouraging user participation. Women may sell their goods and services more cheaply and effectively than conventional mass advertising by posting or promoting services to friends through word of mouth, social media posting, creating blogs, or engaging communities online. If you interact with a friend's blog, video, tweet, or post by liking, commenting, or sharing, you're exposing your own extensive network to the ideas being pushed. Helping a friend expand her company in this manner requires relatively little work on our part but has a significant impact in terms of branding and customer engagement. We can all do our part to assist women to find opportunities by making introductions, networking, and sharing content online. Some of my greatest breaks in life and job have come through networking with other women.

3. 4. Open doors by taking on the role of an angel investor or a coach. Women entrepreneurs often create goods and services that fill niches in the market. Nonetheless, the majority of male investors lack the necessary empathy for the plight of the target market to fully value the company's offerings. Women investors understand the unique challenges women confront, see the opportunities for expansion and place a higher value on the positive social effect their investments will make. It's my opinion that women are especially adept at seizing the potential presented by the special partnership between a women- owned business and its clientele. According to Pipeline Angels member and See Jane Invest CEO/founder Kelly Keenan Trumpbour, "they frequently seek to transfer an experience to their consumer and can pull off the extremely difficult hat trick of filling it with meaning, purpose, and pragmatism." Help from other women or men in business or technology may be invaluable, whether it's with the pitch deck, the business model, the financial estimations, the programming/designing, or even just getting the chance to present. Why not meet with a lady who pitches you an idea or gives you a deck instead of immediately rejecting it as a business set-up in UAE you're not interested in? Provide her with consulting guidance or introduce her to contacts who might assist her. All of us may do our part to encourage a female coworker, consultant, or entrepreneur to follow these paths to professional success.