1. TEAM D ANN AUGUSTYN LOIS BUITANO ARDEN DOUGAN KRISTEN ELLIS PATRICIA POOLE-SHIRRIEL Taking a Seat at the Table How to Convey Your Unique Talent at Meetings January 15 th, 2015 Learning Circles for Women Leaders Department of Energy

2. Challenges to women’s effectiveness at meetings 2

3. Situational Awareness and Pre-Planning Understand your organization’s culture Know the real power hierarchy Master the “pre-meeting” What (more) am I trying to accomplish? 3

4. Creating and Executing Your Plan Know your audience Prepare your Elevator Speech Do your homework 4

5. At the Meeting Where to sit Listen actively Body language Communicate 5

6. Mistakes to Avoid Meandering Not answering the question you are asked Being the last to speak 6

7. Mistakes to Avoid Doing the “office housework” 7

8. Effecting Change Create access opportunities and build connections Discourage pointless perfection and stop negative self-talk Exercise good judgment Get out of your comfort zone 8

9. Happy New Year! Set Goals and Effect Change Identify two or three specific, realistic areas for achievement Build upon our strengths, work on a weakness Write your goals down Share with others Create an actionable plan Regularly assess progress Celebrate achievements! 9

10. Sources “Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman”, by Gail Evans “Women, Find Your Voice”, Harvard Business Review June 2014 “Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office” by Lois Frankel “The Loudest Duck” by Laura Liswood “The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance --- What Women Should Know” by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman “A Portable Mentor” by Kendall Steward, MD “Finding, and Owning, Their Voice”, New York Times Business Section, Sunday Nov 16, 2014 “Taking Notes Isn’t ‘Women’s Work’: What To Do When You’re the Default Admin”, FORBES 10/18/2013 “Sticking women with the office housework”, Washington Post, April 16, 2014 10