Women’s Leadership Skills
Duration: 4 days full time
Overview
Leadership teams are crucial when it comes to delivering your business goals. Their influence should be apparent throughout your organisation. As more and more women undertake leadership roles within an organisation it is important to focus on the specific skills and challenges faced by this rapidly evolving workforce. This four day programme will cover the essential elements of leadership roles; its aim is to challenge the thinking of delegates and provide them with practical tools to enable them to make a real impact when they return to their post.
Benefits of the course:
Empowering – This course seeks to support and empower everyone who attends. Delegates will leave the programme confident that they have the appropriate knowledge and skills to enable them to fully meet the challenges they may face in the workplace.
Reassuring – By working with other delegates from a variety of backgrounds and organisations delegates will be able to share and learn from each other’s experiences within a safe and supportive environment.
Inspiring – The focus of the course is to inspire everyone who attends, to challenge them to unlock their potential and to enable them to work to the very highest levels of their capability.
Who is it for?
- Any and all women in management and senior management roles
- Senior HRM women within their organisation.
- For those new to management or team leadership
- Women advisors & group leader
Course Content:
The course is highly participative throughout and is lead by a female tutor with 20 years of experience working at, and with, all levels of managers within a wide variety of organisations. The emphasis is on challenging existing ways of thinking and developing practical skills for the workplace.
- 1. Self Awareness & Personal Development
What is expected of women in leadership roles and the specific challenges they face.
We will review various models of leadership including Situational Leadership, Tannenbaum & Schmidt and John Adair’s “Action Centred Leadership” model.
We will also look at what tools such as MBTI can tell us about ourselves and how we interact with others.
- 2. Leading the Team
Here we will look at work by Buckingham & Coffman and Hertzberg to fully understand what motivates individuals within the workplace and where we as leaders can influence our employees in order to get the best out of them. We will also focus on what to do when employees fail to perform to the required standards.
- 3. Strategic Leadership
The role of the female leader isn’t just to react to changes as they occur, a true leader needs to be looking to the future and ensure their team today is best equipped to deal with the challenges of tomorrow. In this module we will focus on understanding what drives change, how we can anticipate and plan for change, how we can strategically drive change throughout the organisation and how to manage individual reactions to the change process.
- 4. Influencing Skills
This module explores the ways in which we communicate with each other and will particularly look at the differences between the way men and women communicate. We will look at communication as a means of influencing others and review how we can best communicate to ensure we get the most from meetings and negotiation situations. We place a particular emphasis on getting the female voice heard within a male dominated workforce.