For many years now, IHHP has looked at and come to understand the high performance strategies of leaders, managers, organizations, elite and Olympic athletes, parents and educators. What we’ve learned forms the basis of our training programs, our keynotes and our products.

We’ve now expanded our understanding of excellence and personal leadership to include a new group – women! Based on research examining the lives of 1000 successful women, as well as an in-depth look at great women of today and the past, we’ve discovered some very interesting commonalities among these women. We’ve distilled our findings into the 5 key strategies that contribute to greatness in women - and by ‘greatness’, we mean success in any of the roles that women have chosen for themselves (the emphasis here on ‘choice’) be it as CEO, mother, artist, executive, friend, volunteer or manager (or what is most likely a busy combination of several of these!).

In looking at this research and the lives of women past and present, we discovered several distinguishing characteristics that contribute to great women’s success. These include: an emphasis on education, (either formal or informal); an ability to gain perspective through reading and travel; nonconformance to external expectations; knowing and pursuing one’s unique abilities, and; finding mentors.

Great Women and What Made Them That Way By Elizabeth Pawliw-Fry, Co-founder of IHHP More

What’s interesting to us is that the five key strategies contributing to women’s success fall into IHHP’s main competencies of emotional intelligence, namely – self-awareness, emotional management and emotional connection.

So what does it take to become a truly great woman amidst the “busy-ness” and distractions of our lives? Who is she and how can we get there? Watch for more information in upcoming EQuip Yourself Newsletters or go online to order IHHP’s new ‘Great Women’ CD at http://www.ihhp.com/products.htm. Until then, I wish all great women – arrived or in progress – the best.

Elizabeth Pawliw-Fry
Co-Founder and VP of Research and Development
The Institute for Health and Human Potential

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