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Ladies, no gentlemen"Helma Kip, Essent

• Amsterdam, 2009, April 22

) Titel van het boek van Marike van Zanten
waarin 25 top-vrouwen over hun weg naar de top
worden geïnterviewd
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Introduction Helma Kip

• 52 years old
• Education Dutch law (University of Nijmegen
  (Radboud), 1980)
• Unmarried with (male) partner, without children
• 28.5 years full time active in the energy sector
  
• Last 7.5 years at Essent
• Current Manager regulatory affairs sustainable
  energy
• Staffposition Board -2
• Experience in other sectors outside work
  (politics, housing, education, healthcare)

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Agenda

• Own experiences with diversity (male/female)
• Essent diversity
• Stratego for women

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Examples

• You are working for mr.?
• You make the minutes?
• In the chair Goodmorning Mary, goodmorning
  gentlemen
• Help, my headphone does not work
• The meetings of the management team Mondaymorning
  9h00!
• Good idea. ???? We go for it?? Yes, of course

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Agenda

• Own experiences with diversity (male/female)
• Essent diversity
• Stratego for women

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Essent diversity
Women improve quality of decisions, spirit of
enterprise and work atmosphere

• Women see the world differently.Female input
  improves balanced decisionscompanies with more
  women in the top are more succesfull.
• Women show more personal involvement, what leads
  to a better working environment (and output)

Half of the higher educated workforce is female
The wife chooses in most cases the energysupplier

• In 60 of the households the wife chooses the
  energysupplier.
• More women at Essent leads to a more female
  perspective the female consumer identifys with
  the policy and performance of Essent

• This share is even increasing. Women achieve
  better study results than men
• Diversity prevents waste of 50 of the talent on
  the market

Divers employment fits in Essents values

• Workforce should be a mirror of society that fits
  Essent's policy of a good balance between People,
  Planet and Profit.

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the same geldt for other companies!
Companies with diversity policy
Public statements of these companies
Diversity and inclusiveness are vital for
winning in todays business environment. They
create a competitive edge by helping us to
attract and retain the best people, increase
creativity and improve decision making -
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell -
A diverse top leads to a better product and
therefore to better results - CEO PwC in the
newspaper De Telegraaf -
Former Minister Hans Wijers announces that he
wants to increase the amount of women in
topmanagement" - Akzo Nobel in the newspaper
Volkskrant -
We take extra effort to increase diversity
regarding women and immigrants in higher
positions". - ING in the newpaper Volkskrant -
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Agenda

• Own experiences with diversity (male/female)
• Essent diversity
• Stratego for women

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Book Stratego for women, 2007

• Monic Buehrs and Elisa de Groot
• www.academiciservice.nl
• ISBN 978 90 5261 600 I
• NUR 801
• 3rd edition May 2008

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8 ways to win the flag (1)

• Prepare yourself
• Set your targets and show your ambitions
• Determine the playing field
• Analyse the players
• Think about strategic scenarios

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8 ways to win the flag (2)

• Play the game
• 5. Enlarge your acting repertoire
• 6. Bring power into action at the right level
• 7. Negotiate and use your empathy
• 8. Present and position yourself

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17 rules of the game

• Show your achievements
• Be competitive
• Be loyal to your team as long as you win
• Say I instead of we
• Know that fires are there to be extinguished
• Recognise (your own) status
• Be proud (boast!)
• Negotiate, take initiatives
• Prepare yourself on your next position
• Know that the boss is the boss
• Dont tell everything
• Accept critical remarks
• Do informal business
• Fight conflicts behind closed doors
• Perform yourself
• Take your space (fysically)
• Show masculine feminine qualities

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If you cant beat them join them

• As long as men determine the rules, play their
  game.
• All people, men and women,
• have masculine and feminine qualities.
• When men and women realise that,
• negative consequences of gender differences can
  be solved.