WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP

Learn about the inherent challenges and opportunities for women in leadership, considering where we’ve come from and where we are now with workplace inequality.

• - The impact of COVID-19 & economic conditions on women
• - Knowing the difference between power, influence, and authority
• - The importance of mindset and determining your ‘why’
• - Workshop: Develop a personal mission statement and core values

Assignment #1: The ‘7 whys’ exercise.

Discover your purpose and vision and learn to tell your story with guest speaker Sandy Carter, Senior Vice President and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains.

• - The importance of self-awareness in career management
• - Building your personal brand
• - Examples of successful women in leadership
• - Workshop: Develop your simple sentence story

Examine the different types of intelligence needed to communicate as a leader and how to be a successful woman in leadership.

• - IQ: functional excellence
• - EQ: emotional intelligence as a superpower
• - AQ: adaptability and a growth mindset
• - Workshop: Introduction to non-violent communication

Assignment #2: Eliminate emotional false beliefs.

Develop a strategy for overcoming challenges and always landing on your feet.

• - Overcoming obstacles in your career
• - Setting healthy boundaries
• - Managing up and leading leaders
• - Decisions as a pathway to success

Assignment #3: Vision and goal exercise – create your professional scorecard.

Discover different techniques for collaboration and problem-solving.

• - Rethinking problems and building confidence
• - The truth about customer obsession
• - Tools for collaboration
• - Workshop: Generating ideas through design thinking

Assignment #4: 100 ways to stay motivated exercise and hands-on collaboration tools.

Learn how to raise your voice in the workplace. Develop a personal branding strategy and understand the difference between mentorship and sponsorship for leaders.

• - Bringing your authentic voice to the world
• - Inclusivity and influence for fostering innovation
• - Positivity, reciprocity, and servant leadership
• - The difference between sponsorship and mentorship

Assignment #5: ‘Who am I?’ exercise, story inventory, and homework for life.

Practice giving and receiving both positive and negative feedback with empathy and compassion.

• - The importance of feedback and key challenges
• - The feedback sandwich
• - Vulnerability and perceptions of failure
• - Workshop: Bad news and drive by sandwich

Assignment #6: Using the template provided, find five people to get feedback from. Be prepared to share your reflections and what was new to you.

Develop a 12-month detailed goal-orientated plan for personal and professional success.

• - Understanding the vision of your leadership and employees
• - OKRs as a methodology for measuring results
• - The power of WBRs, MBRs, and QBRs in reporting
• - Tools and resources for measuring the success of your team

Assignment #7: Create OKRs for your life.

Understand how to negotiate from a position of power and confidence.

• - Knowing where you want to go
• - Key strategies for negotiating a win-win
• - Mindful negotiations and non-violent communication
• - Role-play exercise: I want a raise

Assignment #8: Make a list of things that you need support from others to achieve professionally and personally. Pick two and consider your desired outcome and common objections. Practice role-playing how you might negotiate the best possible outcome.

Learn how to connect with like-minded people and be the CEO of your own life. Uncover common myths about networking.

• - Your network as your net worth
• - Become the CEO of your own life, with an advisory board
• - Being congruent in your personal, professional, and digital life
• - Workshop: Help and be helped

Assignment #9: Connect with everyone in the class on LinkedIn and set up a coffee date with one of your classmates.

Discover mechanisms for self-care and how to establish harmony in work and life.

• - Creating a virtuous cycle of work and family
• - Focus and stress management
• - Building confidence with self-care
• - Workshop: Mindfulness and meditation practice

Assignment #10: Create a list of activities and practices that will help you feel centered, calm, and taken care of. How will you prioritize these? Take the seven-day mental diet challenge.

Build your personal and professional strategic plan to get the results you want in life. Define where you want to go and how you can get there.

• - Working backwards with your 12-month plan
• - Sub-targets as a key to success
• - Productivity hacks for women in leadership
• - Working out what’s next

Assignment #11: Prepare a 90-day personal development plan.