Output from
Employee Forums
A call to action
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We want to accelerate efforts to increase women's representation at senior levels in business, building on the work already completed
within our organisations and across the Male Champions of Change (MCC) group.
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Conversations with our people reinforced wide-ranging research on this topic which says there is no ‘silver bullet’.
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This paper therefore proposes a set of interconnected and transformative ‘big ideas’ to reset the current course we are on - where
representation of women at senior levels remains unacceptably low and the pace of change is far too slow.
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Taking action together will be the critical ingredient to achieving a long overdue step change on this issue in Australian business.
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The ten big ideas contained in the strategy:
o Are bold and taken together, amount to a co-ordinated, focused and systemic intervention
o Aim for a significant, sustainable increase of women in leadership positions and talent pipelines
o Address systemic, policy, behavioural and cultural impediments and enablers identified through the focus groups
o Deal with topics that are highly charged, deeply personal and often generationally nuanced
o Are inspired by our conversations with women and men in our organisations who are ready to lead and champion this work
Getting to our plan
Objectives
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Approach
Criteria for action ideas
Develop a deep level of insight
into the barriers that need to be
tackled within our organisations
X focus groups involving X + people
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Leverages the power of the
coalition acting together
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Delivers short, medium and long
and broader society
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Work together to identify and
implement progressive, high
term gains
Synthesis
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impact actions to increase the
unacceptably low levels of
women in executive positions
and pipelines
Insights
Plan
Thinks big
What we heard in our focus groups
Key Themes
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Suggested next steps
Meeting DATE
Between Meetings
Meeting DATE
Pre-read the document and detailed
Agree ideas that will be taken forward to
Focus for this meeting is on discussing
background.
Idea Definition by the MCCs
the idea definition for the three
completed ideas, and agree next steps
Focus for this meeting is on discussing
the ideas and prioritisation.
Prioritisation areas for discussion:
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Commitment – do we have consensus
and commitment to act across the
group to take this forward?
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before next meeting.
Idea definition:
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What are the detailed next steps?
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How will we ensure continued
Which Champion will be the Sponsor
of this idea?
Sponsorship – is there a MCC excited
Which organisation(s) will implement?
(only Sponsor company/
about a particular idea and will act as
the Sponsor?
all organisations in Action group/
all Male Champions)
Boldness and Impact – will this
significantly turn the dial on female
representation at senior levels in
Australia?
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What will success look like?
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How will you measure success?
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Key milestones and timing?
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What is the proposed action?
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What will each participating MCC do
differently to role model this change
within their organisation?
momentum?
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