Moment: The Top 4 Skills Women Think They Need

The Women's Agenda Ambition Report reveals women want to develop communication, empathy, resilience and adaptability in 2023, but these are skills women already excel at. What women truly need isn't more skills but permission—permission to set boundaries, focus on themselves, rest without guilt, and anchor in their authentic identity.

• Communication: women need directness, not diplomacy—learning to speak up without apologising for taking space
• People-pleasing dampens our ability to communicate effectively, despite women being incredibly articulate
• Empathy: women already bleed empathy as emotional barometers—they actually want to be understood themselves
• Women need to develop discernment and stop taking on excessive responsibility for others' emotions
• Resilience: women don't lack resilience, they're exhausted from demonstrating it constantly
• Learning to rest without guilt and put down emotional burdens is the real skill needed
• Adaptability: women are tired of shapeshifting to meet everyone's expectations
• True adaptability comes from anchoring into your authentic self, not reactive changing
• The future of female leadership needs women who are unapologetically whole
• Reclaiming your energy, rediscovering your voice, and trusting yourself are the real skills

The real skill under all of this is you need to come back home to yourself. You need to reclaim your energy. You need to rediscover your voice, learn to trust in yourself. The future of female leadership does not need more polished perfection. We are not broken and we do not need fixing. What we really need is women who are unapologetically whole.

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