All Be Inspired articles – Page 13
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Video
The Retail Week with Gracia Amico: Inspiring future female leaders
Retail Week Be Inspired aims to promote the careers of female leaders in the industry. We ask what retailers are doing to encourage women in retail.
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Opinion
Opinion: In today's retail environment it makes business sense to be inspired
“There are three billion women in the world who don’t look like supermodels and only eight that do.”
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Analysis
Be Inspired: How retailers can foster more women leaders
Women make up 60% of retail’s workforce yet just 10% of executive boards. Retail Week asks what can be done to ensure gender diversity.
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News
Be Inspired: The industries that can teach retail about nurturing female talent
Retailers’ record on promoting women to the top is not great compared with the rest of the business world. Perhaps it’s time to learn from companies outside the sector.
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Opinion
Sir Ian Cheshire: Mentoring helps women get ahead in retail
It’s easy to forget that gender diversity is still an issue, especially in the retail industry, so a recent report comes as quite a shock.
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Analysis
Be Inspired: Boohoo boss Carol Kane – inspiring creative stars of the future
“I wanted to be able to walk down the high street and see something I’d touched,” says Carol Kane of her ambitions as a design school graduate.
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Cartoon
Blower’s retail cartoon: Retail Week's Be Inspired campaign
Cartoonist Patrick Blower’s take on Retail Week’s Be Inspired campaign, which seeks to rally the next generation of female retail leaders.
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Opinion
Opinion: Ignore talent at your peril, but ignore gender to your advantage
Be Inspired ambassador Suzanne Harlow, group trading director at Debenhams, calls on businesses to unleash potential from within.
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News
Power List: 'Ones to watch' list dedicated to female talent in retail
As part of Retail Week’s #BeInspired campaign, we have dedicated this year’s Power List ‘ones to watch’ to talented women in the industry.
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Video
Watch: The top trends and changes in the Retail Week Power List 2016
Watch the team behind the Retail Week Power List discuss the top trends of this year as a new chart leader is revealed.
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Opinion
Opinion: We must prove what success diversity can bring
As the momentum around our Be Inspired campaign continues to build, ambassador Fiona Lambert explains why the initiative is close to her heart.
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Opinion
Opinion: Take making changes in your career into your own hands
When I said I was going to start a shoe business selling only low heels, contacts and friends were not short on advice.
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News
Women discouraged from senior retail positions owing to lack of role models
Women are put off going for senior positions in retail because of a lack of flexible working and role models in the sector.
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Opinion
Opinion: Role models are key to helping narrow the gap
Women and our representation at the top of retail organisations is a complex issue with many causes and equally as many strongly felt views.
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Opinion
Opinion: Be proud of being a woman in what often seems a man’s world
I have been thinking about what it means to be a female leader in business, trying to recall times when I thought I was treated differently because of being a woman.
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News
Be Inspired: Top names lend support to campaign for female retail leaders
A further flurry of high-profile names from across the sector have pledged their support to Retail Week’s Be Inspired campaign.
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Analysis
Be Inspired: The six Ps of gender equality in the workplace
If the retail industry is to tackle the imbalance of women leaders in boardrooms across the country then executable measures must be taken.
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Analysis
Be Inspired: Watch our documentary on role models for future female leaders
Retail Week has created the Be Inspired campaign to promote the careers of successful female retail leaders. Watch the documentary here.
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News
Retail Week Live: Female leaders call for greater flexibility
Organisations need to offer flexibility and encourage diversity to help women reach the top, according to a panel of female leaders.
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Video
Retail Week Live: Behind Retail Week’s 'Be Inspired' campaign
With the launch of Retail Week’s ‘Be Inspired’ almost here, Charlotte Hardie discusses the motivations behind the campaign.