255: How Women Make Stronger, Smarter Choices, with Therese Huston

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Therese Huston: How Women Decide Therese Huston is looking to change the conversation about women as decision-makers. Her book, How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices*, debunks popular negative stereotypes about women as decision-makers. She is also the Founding Director for the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. Key Points When a female leader makes a mistake in a job traditionally held by men, people are much more critical. When women are collaborative, they’re seen as less decisive. Don’t be fooled by someone’s confidence—it could just be a sign they don’t know all the facts. Use the Loopback strategy - think about your situation a year from now, and project what you wish you would have done differently. Strategies to help women in the workplace: Make sure nobody is interrupted when speaking in a meeting. Take designated turns for speaking in meetings. Make it clear that negotiations are expected when discussing salary, office setups, etc. Resources Mentioned Research: We Are Way Harder on Female Leaders Who Make Bad Calls by Therese Huston Thinking, Fast and Slow* by Daniel Kahneman Therese Huston's website Related Episodes Personality Preferences and Decision-Making (episode 46) How to Tap Into Wisdom, with Barry Schwartz (episode 92) Start With Why, with Simon Sinek (episode 223) How to Tame Your Inner Critic, with Tara Mohr (episode 232) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	We expect both women and men to make equally good decisions as leaders and to be equally
0:06.9	responsible when they don't. But the world is a lot more complex than that. On today's show, some of the unique realities
0:14.9	that women encounter, and what both women and men can do
0:19.7	so that women make stronger, smarter choices.
0:23.4	This is coaching for leaders, episode 255.
0:28.1	Produced by Innovate Learning,
0:30.6	Maximizing human potential.
0:33.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:40.0	This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac.
0:44.6	Leaders aren't born, they're made.
0:47.4	And this weekly show will give you access to the best thinkers, resources, and actions to help you develop your leadership skills and one of the key
0:57.9	skill sets for all of us as leaders is in how we make decisions and today's guest is going to really provide us
1:08.2	with a lot of perspective and also some of the most recent research on how we make decisions in general, how we can do a better job,
1:16.2	and specifically how women approach decision making and some strategies and tools for doing that even more effectively and so I am
1:25.0	really thrilled to be able to welcome Terese Houston to the show today. She is
1:29.8	looking to change the conversation about women as decision makers.
1:34.0	Her new book is titled How Women Decide What's True, What's Not,
1:38.9	and What Strategy Spark The Best Choices.
1:41.6	She's written for the New York Times and Harvard Business Review and is the
1:45.1	faculty development consultant at Seattle University. And, Theresa, when you and I were starting to talk over
1:51.0	email and the conversation of leadership came up. You made a passing
1:55.5	reference in one of your messages to me about having your first leadership attempt
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