Women in Leadership: Reducing Barriers and Expanding Opportunities for Career Progression
Amid demographic shifts and skills shortages, concerns about the future of labor are growing. Today, organizations need increasingly innovative strategies to recruit from the widest possible talent pools and secure their internal leadership pipelines. This raises an important question: What can organizations do to expand their workforce, foster inclusion and diversity, and prevent high-potential leaders from seeking greener pastures?
To understand ways organizations can tackle these challenges head on, recent research from SHRM explores how engaging underutilized segments of the workforce, prioritizing internal talent mobility, and investing in high-potential leaders will be key to strengthening workforces.
Importantly, increasing women’s participation in the labor force and reducing barriers to career progression women leaders face will be critical to develop healthy internal leadership pipelines. Discover actionable steps leaders can take to unlock potential in their organizations, strengthen their internal leadership pipelines and reduce barriers to career progression that women leaders face.
Click below to access the report — and learn more about SHRM Linkage's solutions for Women in Leadership.
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