Pure Public Relations focuses its marketing efforts within the luxury interiors, beauty, and health\/lifestyle industries. In our London office, we have 7 interior brands-focused employees, comprised of 1 assistant (me), 2 junior-level account managers, 2 senior-level account managers, 1 project director, and of course, 1 of the company’s CEOs. The beauty sector has 10+ employees ranked in a similar manner.<\/p>\n
Right off the bat, I noticed a hierarchy among the interiors team. I should note again that this office is run by all women; therefore, I predict that this is a reason for a slight “power struggle,” if you will. Every Monday around 11 am, the interiors team has a meeting in our showroom portion of the office. This past week, we had a discussion about why our social media following had been declining recently. The director (who holds the next highest position under our CEO) began the conversation; however, I’ve noticed frequently that the newer senior account manager (within the last 2 months she was promoted; just weeks before I got here she was in a junior management role) has tried to assert her dominance during our meetings. For example, she often disagrees with the director when the CEO isn’t in the room, or brushes off opinions of those who hold lower positions than her.<\/p>\n
Though I’ve really been learning a lot at my internship site, I do think — from my perspective — it would benefit the productivity and strength of the interiors team to work on cohesiveness and communication. I believe because there are only women in the office, it perhaps limits our diversity of thought in addition to creating somewhat of a competition for power. If I hadn’t known their position titles, I would be confused as to who is the “leader” and who is the “follower” in terms of company hierarchy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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