• Teresa Tanner | Creating a Workplace that Supports Women and Gender Equity

  • Jul 5 2021
  • Duración: 32 m
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  • Ever since Teresa Tanner entered the workforce at the age of 16, she knew things were different for women. This understanding led her to found Reserve Squad, a business that helps companies retain employees who pause their careers to take care of family or other obligations. “We've lost about two and a half million women from the workforce,” Teresa says of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are at the lowest workforce participation rate that we've been in 33 years, so basically, my entire career has been wiped out for this pandemic.”Teresa started her career at McDonald’s, where her higher-ups told her they wanted her to take on an HR role. She was wary. As an operations manager, Teresa thought HR was administrative, bureaucratic and, at times, a barrier. She agreed to do it for a couple years, saying she eventually wanted to go back to operations. Spoiler: Teresa never went back to operations. Following her time at McDonald’s, she went on to join Fifth Third Bank as an HR leader, eventually rising to the C-suite. Throughout her career, Teresa knew that she had to position herself differently and overcome barriers many of her male co-workers did not face. “As we look forward 10, 20, 30 years, what are the things that we can do today to change some of those outcomes? Some of these barriers have been in place for for many, many decades, and we have to think differently if we want to pivot away from that,” she says. Teresa’s experiences over the years, including a shooting at Fifth Third and the COVID-19 pandemic, have highlighted for her the importance of a human-first approach to management. As companies move forward from the pandemic, she explains why leading with empathy is a must. Featured LeaderName: Teresa TannerTitle: Founder and CEOCompany: Reserve SquadNoteworthy: Teresa has a two-year-old granddaughter, and she dreams of a world where her granddaughter will have less barriers than she did. Where to find Teresa: Twitter | LinkedInHuman Resolve Episode 14 HighlightsHighlights from the transcript.💡 Reflecting on being a woman in the workforce [8:11] “The minute I entered the workforce, I understood that things were different for women. It was just so obvious in so many different ways. Whether it was the unconscious bias, whether it was the overt sexual harassment, and things like that, the language and things you were exposed to in the in the work environment, you noticed it right away. I've known my entire career that as a woman, I needed to be aware of things. I needed to posture things differently. I needed to position myself differently. I needed to overcome certain barriers that other people didn't have, so it was very obvious even at a very young age, and I saw it manifest over my career in a lot of different ways.”💡 Giving employees a space to speak up [18:32] “We have to lead with empathy. We have to really sometimes just take our business hats off and connect as humans, and we have to put ourselves in other people's shoes, to sit with them, hold space with them and listen. I think going back to the shooting, that's what we tried to do when there were so many employees that were afraid. I mean, this happened in the lobby in which people swipe their badges and come into work every day, and we had so many employees that were just so afraid to re-enter that space. And there were no words, nothing we could say, to inspire them to fix it. There's no policy we could put in place, and so we just held space.”💡 Evolving work policies after COVID-19[20:15] “I think that as employers, we just need to take time instead of saying, ‘OK, here's our new flexible work policies’ — right, that's the easiest place to go — is make sure we're listening to our employees and saying, ‘What do you need?’ and creating that space for them to speak and then leading with empathy, and I'm encouraging people all the time. Everybody's rushing back with their plans to get back to work, and how you're going to do hybrid, and how you're going to do vaccines, and whether you're going to have masks and distancing. All of those are important elements, but don't rush to that without really listening with empathy to what your employees need. Because if we do, we are going to rush past and people aren't OK yet, and infrastructure isn't back yet, and we have an opportunity to lead in a human way that really meets the needs of our people.”💡 If you’re going to be flexible, adjust performance reviews to match[23:35] “This is a huge effect and impact on the women, and so I worry that even as the jobs start coming back, the infrastructure for women is not going to be back, and so disproportionately more men are going to be taking those jobs. Then for companies even that are offering these flexible work arrangements — which I love, and I'm encouraging companies to do — we have to be careful that there's not an unintended consequence around how performance is viewed and ...
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