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Women's Leadership Journey 2013
An Expanded Teleworkshop
60 Minute Interactive and Results-Oriented Sessions
Three Month's Post Session Group Coaching
Each Tuesday February 5 through May 21, 2013 - 7:30-8:30 PM CST

Do You Want To:

Gain personal insight and develop your leadership potential?

Influence and guide others through exemplary leadership practice?

Seize leadership opportunities?

Develop actionable strategies to overcome barriers to leadership advancement?

This Workshop Will Help You Meet These Goals

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

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

Our three-step leadership model provide insights and actionable strategies to help women reach their leadership potential and aid organizations in tapping into these competencies.

Workshop Objectives: A core outcome is the creation of a Personal Leadership Development Plan that expands your leadership ability to:

·         Address traditional women’s leadership challenges, improve relationship management and team performance

·         Perfect communication, confidence, and professional presence to establish winning partnerships

·         Enhance conflict management skills to resolve problems and influence others

·         Put leadership practices in action that inspire others, generate result-oriented actions and improve organizational morale, teamwork, and productivity.

What's included

60 minute sessions of learning facilitated by proven women leaders over an 18 week period

Workshop notebook and materials

Personal Action Plan Development

Three month after workshop support & coaching

Membership in The Monarch Center Women's Leadership Circle. Professional networking opportunities and discounts on other Monarch training

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Merida Johns, PhD founder and director of The Monarch Center for Women's Leadership Development
Merida Johns, PhD

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.

The individual is important to us.
We limit our registration to a small number. This enhances the learning experience and provides an intimate and relaxed atmosphere for self-development.

Workshop faculty

Dr. Merida Johns, The Monarch Center founder, with a team of proven women leaders facilitate the workshop. Joining Dr. Johns is Dr. Marion Ball, selected by the HIMSS as one of the 50 most influential health IT professionals over the last 50 years; Dr. Carol D. Berger, President of Integrated Environmental Management, Inc., a woman-owned company with offices in Maryland, Ohio, and Tennessee; and Joann Dobbie, President of the Art of Business Communication, a company that educates global professionals in the art of communicating effectively . For full biographical information download the workshop brochure.

Workshop Content

Part 1: Exploit Your Leadership Style for Organizational Impact
Miss a meeting? Sessions are recorded and can be accessed 24/7

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 must be appropriately adapted to 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 unique women’s leadership challenges. You will use personality and strength type indicators, and other techniques. Using collaborative and active learning you will identify ways to play to your strengths and transform behaviors to your advantage in realizing leadership roles in the current business world. Part 1 of Personal Action Plan developed.

Part 2: Establish Leadership Presence that Influences and Inspires
Miss a meeting? Sessions are recorded and can be accessed 24/7.

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. Part 2 of Personal Action Plan Developed.

Part 3: Put Leadership in Action
Miss a meeting? Sessions are recorded and can be accessed 24/7

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. Part 3 Personal Action Plan developed.

Workshop Tuition:
(Corporate Discounts for more than one attendee available. Please contact us at 224-858-4035)

Easy registration and payment online

$1695.00 all inclusive fee includes 18week teleworkshop and 3 months post workshop group coaching

Pay by check or credit card off line. Purchase orders accepted. Click below for Registration Form

A limited number of scholarships on a sliding scale are available for 501c3 organizations on a first-come basis. Click here for application.

Program confirmation, materials and instructions for access to teleworkshop will be provided one-week prior to beginning of sessions and after payment receipt.

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Cancellation Policy: Fees are non-refundable for cancellations. However, registered participants may send a substitute for any part or all of the workshop. If paying online by credit card, event insurance can be purchased for a nominal fee of $20 to cover unexpected cancellations.

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