Having a perfectionist tendency is another element very likely to get in the way. The impact of that is that they get less support, much less visibility, and they end up doing a lot more work. According to Helgesen: “women will say ‘I’m going to keep my head down until I really get this job mastered.’ They don't reach out to anyone for help. When women get promoted or change jobs they should enlist allies on day one. Women may view asking for something as transactional, so they miss out on the value of the relationships.”Īnother element of missing the value of relationships has to do with changing roles. “But women can get stuck in building and building relationships and not asking for anything, for not leveraging the relationship to help with their lives and their careers. “Women do a good job building relationships,” Helgesen said. Women also need to embrace the need to leverage relationships.
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