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The telecourse workshop meets one hour per week for 18 weeks and includes three months post workshop individual leadership coaching.

The impetus for the Women’s Leadership Journey Workshops is fueled out of my own experiences in a highly dominated women’s professional field and one in which women have found it extremely difficult to climb to the upper echelons of leadership where executive leadership is male dominated. Part of this difficulty has been structural barriers, the lack of policy prescriptions, and support systems.  However opportunities for leadership development that focus on not only exemplary leadership practices but also reconcile the personal qualities of women in “making it” in today’s current business environment have been particularly scarce.

THE WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP JOURNEY WORKSHOP addresses both of these perspectives in helping women develop their potential as leaders and organizational visionaries and who can advance themselves, the organizations for whom they work, and the communities in which they live.

About The Women’s Leadership Journey Workshop

Although data indicate that women in leadership roles are increasing, women still remain underrepresented in top positions and gender differences exist in compensation and the types of top leadership positions that women attain. 

Research studies indicate that organizations miss out on decision making, productivity and success opportunities when women are underrepresented in executive leadership positions.

The goal of The Women’s Leadership Journey is to provide learning opportunities for women that incorporate best leadership practices and provide insights and actionable strategies that help women face current structural and gender-based challenges that could be significant barriers to their leadership advancement.

Who Should Attend:

• Women who want to gain personal insight and develop their leadership potential

• Women who want to influence and guide others through exemplary leadership practice

• Women who want to develop actionable strategies that overcome barriers to their leadership advancement

The 18 week telcourse workshop will:

·         Identity your characteristics and traditional women’s leadership challenges, assess these, and redefine them in helping yourself, and your organization be more productive and successful. 

·         Improve confidence and professional presence, communication and decision-making skills, and conflict management techniques to resolve problems and positively influence and guide others.

·         Develop your abilities in best leadership practices that will help you to inspire and guide others in pursuing result-oriented actions for improving organizational morale, teamwork, and productivity.

Workshop Content

 Unique Women’s Leadership Challenges

By culture, instinct, and socialization we have developed caretaker behaviors.  We make others the center of our lives and wait to be noticed.  We focus on relationships; we multi-task; we are perfectionists.  While these and similar behaviors may work in our nurturing roles within our families and communities, they can be catastrophic when inappropriately applied in the business world.

Redefining these roles for business advantage is one of the fundamental steps we take on the women’s leadership Journey.  This part of the Journey begins with assessment and personal introspection of yourself and the unique women’s leadership challenges.  Using collaborative and active learning techniques we identify ways to transform these behaviors to our advantage in realizing roles as leaders in the current business world.

Establishing Leadership Presence

An essential part of leadership is influencing others.  Before we can expect others to have confidence in us, we must have confidence in ourselves and exude professional and leadership presence.  

It is hypothesized that gender differences in confidence producing behaviors put women at a disadvantage in moving into leadership roles.  Establishing leadership presence is essential if we are to influence others.  This part of the Journey explores the foundations of confidence and confidence building strategies. You also learn communication, problem solving and decision making techniques and how to build social networks that result in positive self-promotion and professional presence that is authentic and inspires others to optimal achievement.

Accepting the Challenge:  Embracing the Leadership Journey

Leadership is not a destination.  It is a journey.  If chosen it is one that requires us to continually improve our own understanding and capacity to guide others for the common good. 

Before we can lead we must develop our abilities in the best of leadership practices. This part of the Journey synthesizes modern perspectives on leadership practice.  We examine how to take actionable steps in embracing these practices in attaining a more purposeful and successful leadership role in today’s business environment.  Examination of values-based leadership, shared visioning, change leadership, collaboration and negotiation, and developing others for leadership are included.

Overview
Today's workplace demands the ability to function in multi-disciplinary teams.  However, effective teams just don't happen and women in particular have unique challenges that they must face in forming and managing teams.  This hands-on workshop demonstrates strategies to help women to create, coach and manage a high performance team. 

Content and Format:
A hands-on workshop focuses on developing skills in applying strategies for successful teamwork.  Specific treatment of women's challenges in team development and management is provided. 

Attendees participate in group activities to understand the importance of solidification of team belief and assessment of the appropriateness of team diversity in creating a high performance team.  Participants explore approaches to managing conflict and strategies for conducting productive meetings.  The use of tools such as team charters and norms, project definition documents, project performance monitors and after action reviews are demonstrated through group activities and simulations.

Length and Audience: 
Two day experiential workshop. 
Limited attendance:  20

We Must Keep Meeting Like This!

Overview:
Meetings can be a productive workplace tool for fostering new ideas, developing plans, and monitoring performance.  All too often, however, meetings are a complete waste of time that consume valuable resources, cost money and contribute to low morale.  Industry Week Magazine estimated that $37 billion is wasted every year on poorly planned or poorly run meetings. According to a study published by The Wharton Center for Applied Research, over 40% of meetings are unproductive. The reasons for this vary but generally fall into the following categories: ineffective preparation, nonexistent meeting norms, poor facilitation and inadequate documentation.

This workshop provides a commonsense approach to running business meetings in a productive way and is an important playbook for women in managing business meetings.

Content and Format:
Presentation and workshop formats that provide a step-by-step process in learning how to run a productive business meeting including meeting preparation, participant preparation and team building, meeting facilitation, handling of difficult situations, using collateral materials and meeting documentation. 

Length and Audience

Two day experiential workshop.
Limited to 20 attendees

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