Communicating Across the Gender Gap: What Lawyers, Managers, and Professionals Need to Know
A growing number of studies show again and again that most men and women have different styles of managing, speaking, and listening. Your gender makes a huge difference in how others perceive you and can lead to misunderstandings and missed opportunities that can have consequences for your practice, your reputation for professionalism, and even your career. This multimedia, multidisciplinary program will give you fascinating practical tools for understanding how gender affects management and communication and dozens of tips to help you in your daily life and work.
Topics include:
- How to defuse gender conflicts in the office
- Why many turn off clients of the opposite sex
- How to use your own “gender style” to your advantage
- How age influences gender considerations
- Understanding gender in the courtroom
The following brochure describes the gender course Steven Stark and Sarah Wald give around the country in more detail. The course is designed to meet the state CLE requirements for “elimination of bias” and professionalism in most states.
Listen to Steven Stark on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday on the “Feminization of Politics” (10/29/2000)