The Glass Ceiling Effect

Hello and thank you for taking the time to look at this latest post on the Altered Image Blog.

Predominantly the term "Glass Ceiling" is often used to describe a situation that applies to wormen in the workplace. It is argued that they progress through thir career path until they reach a specific point and then suddenly they reach a stop and despite what they do they get no further and seem to have reached the point where their career development ceases.

Lorraine Heggessey, 51, became the first woman controller of BBC1 in 2000. She is now the chief executive of talkbackTHAMES, one of the country's largest TV production companies. Lorraine lives in West London with her husband and two teenage daughters. She says:

"Yes - the glass ceiling does exist. But my advice is this: it's a transparent construct, so look through it and act as though it's not there".

Ruth Badger, 30, was the runner-up on the second series of The Apprentice. She now helps turn failing companies into successes on Sky One's Badger Or Bust, and has her own consultancy firm based in Didsbury, Manchester, where she lives. She says

"No one could put a ceiling above me that I wouldn't smash through. Successful women don't acknowledge barriers, whether you believe they exist for other women".

I believe that it is easy to see the Glass Ceiling principle at work in our own lives, but I feel that however often we put it there, it is a creation of our own making.

How many times have you decided that you want something, you can see it, you can almost touch it, but no matter how hard you seem to try you cannot quite reach out and grab it?

Finally after several failed attempts you give up.... the Glass Ceiling has triumphed and you tell yourself that it is not going to happen, that you are destined not to have what it is you seek.

I am writing this blog today because it is my opinion, as a Performance Coach, that this is a complete load of rubbish. If you want something enough it will not matter how many false starts you make or how many times you hit the Glass Ceiling, you will go back to the begining and look at a different way to approach the situation.....(a cautionary note here - if you go back to the begining do not repeat past action otherwise, gues what? You WILL hit the ceiling again!)

To return to a point that I made in a previous blog Change happens inevitably but to really alter things requires that you make PROGRESS. So in the case of a Glass Ceiling situation progress comes from recognising that something did not get you the result you wanted and moving on to the next attempt.

Well I hope that you have enjoyed reading this post and would love you to come onto Facebook and join the group Altered Image - Coaching To The Stars and also take a look at my website by CLICKING HERE

Have a fantastic day and I look forward to speaking to you again soon and remember

Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!

DAve