Developing Women Leadership: Liberating Power, Potential & Positivity of Women in the Workplace

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Why Attend

Organizations wanting to excel in the modern diverse, dynamic and demanding environment need to access the unique skills and talents of all employees. Liberating the power, potential and positivity of women in leadership roles can be a key contributor to achieving this goal. Women can bring a different dynamic in leadership roles. Encouraging these different ways of thinking, connecting and delivering positive outcomes can add competitive advantage. Valuing variety of approach is key to this.

Developing Women as Leaders training course will provide the participants with a clear understanding of the challenges when taking up senior positions, an opportunity to consider what they need to do to ensure leadership practice is tailored to their organizational and personal context. The training course will also enable participants to recognize their core strengths to become reliable, bold leaders and role models who empower everyone around them. It will further deliberate where women need to change and what needs to change in the organizational practices and culture for women to advance to leadership roles.

Event Date: 05/06/2023 – 10/06/2023

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Overview
Course Outline

Module 1 -The Role of Women in Leadership

- What is the role of a leader?
- What does being a woman leader mean?
- Applying situational leadership to different circumstances
- Authenticity in your leadership style
- Latest thinking and best practice around women in leadership issues
- Leadership skills women bring
- Challenges and trade-offs in leadership

Module 2 – Leadership and Self-Awareness for Women at Work

- Emotional intelligence – what it is and how to get it
- Our schema – developing a positive internal voice
- Being assertive in appropriate situations
- Changing unhelpful habits
- Conducting a self-audit of leadership behaviors
- Establishing positive personal impact
- Creating authenticity of leadership style
- Developing your emotional resilience

Module 3 -Creating Positivity through the Leadership Role

- Building and maintaining confidence and self-belief
- The skill of reframing and positive thinking
- Positive self-presentation
- Responding to challenges or criticism in a positive way
- Creating positive team cultures
- Developing a “can do” delivery ethos
- Channeling your positive thinking to achieve outstanding outcomes

Module 4 – Connecting Power and Leadership

- Developing influencing and negotiation skills as a leader
- Being influential at a business strategy level
- Recognizing and utilizing sustainable sources of power
- Harnessing confidence in decision making
- How and when to challenge others

Module 5 – Establishing Yourself as an Innovative Woman Leader

- Finding your leadership voice
- Communicating with confidence
- Raising your profile with key stakeholders
- Making the difference by being yourself
- Recognizing and promoting your own worth and contribution
- Barriers: perception or reality and how to overcome them
- Exploring how to achieve your leadership potential
- Planning your personal development