Weigh in on Polish Your Star's Guiding Principles

When I created Polish Your Star, I set out to take an entirely different approach to breaking the gender divide. As I share the Polish Your Star vision, women often ask me what we do and how she would benefit from our services. What we don't do is promise easy answers or provide the answer. What we do is work with our clients:

• to identify old beliefs that may be holding her back;
• to believe her person goals and aspirations are just as valid and worthy as anyone else's
• to take risks;
• to know that she can accomplish anything she sets her mind to
• to seek advice from others who have been there before
• to understand that she won't get a different result by using the same old methods
• to develop new methods that align with her vision and
  
• to share information freely and collaboratively

When I developed our Friends of Polish Your Star networking sessions and Women's Leadership Networking Circles, when I connect mentors, peers and resources, and when I work to support our clients, I do so keeping the guiding principles below in mind. Our products and services are right for you if you adhere to at least one of the principles:

Guiding Principles

To be recognized as a Friend of Polish Your Star, the woman must meet at least one of the following criteria:

□ I have or aspire to a leadership role in my community; corporation, institution or other organizational body

□ I recognize that it is my responsibility to identify and vocalize my personal aspirations but that it is equal important to help others identify and vocalize their personal aspirations

□ I believe that neither I nor any woman is no more/less entitled to financial compensation for her work than a man;

□ I do or aspire to recognize and positively acknowledge an individual’s skills, abilities, and aspiration regardless of age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion or creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, or veteran status;

□ I do and aspire to affirmatively act to place women in positions which represent her aspirations, regardless of perceived or actual societal limitations;

□ I commit to giving each woman the benefit of the doubt, to assuming her positive potential and to taking risks in allowing her to expand her experience base;

□ I commit to actively attempting to refer or consider at least one woman for any position for which I am hiring (whether as an employee or contractor);

□ I commit to mentoring and helping other women in their career development

□ I commit to becoming knowledgeable about whether the organizations to which you provide financial support (through payment for goods or services or donations) employees at least 30% of women in leadership and/or the most highly compensated positions.

Let me know what you think. Are these guiding principles you live by? Have we missed an important guiding principle? Are you ready to change the world?

Would you find value in joining a LinkedIn group that agreed to abide by these guiding principles?