Power Tool #7: Create a Movement
In this video, women wearing their virtual shirts put their convictions into action. But they didn’t do it alone.
In No Excuses, I show how to apply movement building principles to any area of life. Those principles can be described as Sister Courage: be a sister. Reach out and ask for help when you need it. give help when someone else needs it. Have the courage to raise issues. Put the two together with action and you have a movement.
Think about it. When you needed to plan Thanksgiving dinner, didn’t you call on your sisters to help you plan the menu and distribute the workload? Those same skills can be incorporated into the workplace and in politics.
What’s on your shirt? What is the goal you want to accomplish? What are the various components and tasks? What strengths do the individual members of your team have, and how can those strengths be utilized to pull everything together?
I just love what Gloria Steinem has to say about building a network for yourself and getting a movement going. Do you agree with her?
Where do you need to create a movement in your life? Have you established support networks? And how can you apply the principles of movement building into your day-to-day life?
Speaking of movements, don’t forget to enter the Wear the Shirt contest. We’re accepting entries until December 4th. One lucky winner will receive an autographed set of my books, just in time for the holidays. Give them to someone special or keep them for yourself. But we’ve got a fabulous group of activists who have already joined the Wear the Shirt movement. So don’t be left out!
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.
1 Comments
Leave a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by womensmediacenter, Feminists For Choice and janniaragon, Gloria Feldt. Gloria Feldt said: New post: Power Tool #7: Create a Movement http://bit.ly/f2DdyK #NoExcuses #fem2 […]