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Leadership & Management Skills for Women — Enhanced Two-Day Training Webinar
This two-day workshop is a rare opportunity to acquire important leadership skills and use those newfound skills to gain the respect of co-workers and those you supervise.
Course Description/Agenda Women are finally well represented in supervisory and management
positions in most organizations across the country. Yet, despite
these visible signs of success, many are finding the road to
leadership success rocky. This two-day workshop is a rare
opportunity to acquire important leadership skills and use those
newfound skills to gain the respect of co-workers and those you
supervise. It’s filled with insights into the special and
often-overlooked talents women leaders can bring to the table and
cutting-edge tactics successful women leaders are using right now
to make things happen in their organizations.
What You Will Learn
- How to recognize and eliminate
behaviors that hinder your success
- How to address conflict
promptly and directly — like a leader
- How to push back
diplomatically when requests and deadlines are unreasonable
- How to find a sustainable
balance between your work and personal life
- And much more!
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Program
time: 3 hours each day (6 hours total)
DAY 1
Session 1: See yourself — and be seen by
others — as a leader
- Bossy...moody...emotional...overcoming the labels
women sometimes get saddled with
- A simple exercise to define
your leadership identity and its effect on others
- How to strip back the layers,
create your own personal brand and let it blossom
- Honestly assess where you need
improvement — even small changes pay big dividends!
- 5 leadership tests no woman
escapes
- Countering gender bias:
tips...and a few warnings
Session 2: Develop all the right stuff
- Stop trying to "fit in" — the
benefits of being who you naturally are
- Understanding your leadership
style and how to play into your strengths and downplay your
weaknesses
- 5 specific actions you can
take today to improve your leadership
- How to separate being liked from being respected
- 2 types of networks that will
help you get things done
- How to take credit for your
accomplishments without bragging
- Increasing your visibility:
How to overcome the double bind women often find themselves in
- How to stop talking too fast,
apologizing, over-explaining — and making other
credibility-robbing mistakes
Session 3: Project credibility and earn
the respect you deserve
- Your employees want more
money, more responsibility, more everything — could
you be creating a culture of entitlement?
- Boss...or friend? How to avoid
mismanaging the emotional distance between yourself and your
employees
- Emotional intelligence: It’s
not a "girl" thing...it’s a leadership requirement
- A new mental script for
controlling your behaviors, tendencies and impulses
- How to use social media to
advance your career — not derail it
Session 4: Always communicate purposefully
and meaningfully
- How really listening can make
you a much better leader
- How to be heard in meetings:
Pounding the table won’t work, but these tips will
- How to accept responsibility
for a mistake and put a positive spin on it
- Communication breakdown: If
you can’t get your message across, how can anyone act on it?
- How to astutely "read" an
individual or group and adapt your communication style
accordingly
- Emotional intelligence in
action! 5 tips you’ll use every day
- How to get over
pre-presentation nervousness and speak comfortably before groups
of any size
- How to courteously but firmly
take back the floor in meetings when interrupted
- How to say "no" when
appropriate — without sounding like the "Queen of Mean"
DAY 2
Session 1: Light the fire in your team ...
- The #1 leadership lesson: It’s
not about you; it’s about your people
- How the entire process for
finding and bringing top talent on board has changed
- You have a plan for creating a
diverse culture — but do you have the passion?
- Do employees run to you with
every little thing? Tell-tale signs you may be overprotective
- Getting even the most contrary
employees to do what they’re supposed to do
- The key to motivating the
unmotivated: Be very good at these 5 things
- How to supervise employees
with different values, lifestyles and views...and reap the
positive benefits
- Why bother to delegate?
Because both you and your employees win
Session 2: ...And keep the flame burning
- 2 things to never forget about
keeping good employees happy
- 3 golden rules for setting
team goals that stick
- Feel uncomfortable giving
praise? Why successful motivators don’t think that way at all
- How to keep your feedback
positive — even when the employee is angry or has endless
excuses
- Using the technique of fait
accompli to get what you want — end of discussion
- Addressing poor performance:
Avoid soft-pedaling that can come back to haunt you
- Got bad attitudes on your
team? How to set and enforce a zero-tolerance policy
- Disciplining employees: How to
be known as firm, but fair
Session 3: Turn around challenges and
become an opportunity-driven leader
- How to disagree without being
negatively labeled behind your back
- Conflict: Fight or flight?
Here’s a better option
- 7 top sources of conflict on
the job — and how the wisest women leaders handle them
- When disagreements arise...step
into a leader’s role by adopting these 3 behaviors
- How to appear immune to cruel
words, potshots and personal attacks (even when you’re not)
- When it’s okay to show
emotions, when to rein them in and how to tell the difference
- Dealing with hotheads,
know-it-alls and other difficult characters: Is your leadership
showing?
Session 4: Assess where you stand — and
where to go from here
- How to ask others for honest
feedback — without seeming weak or putting anyone on the spot
- Mentors: You can have more
than one — in fact, you should
- How to create your personal
vision statement that defines your purpose and guides your
future — 25 words or less, please!
- Dispelling the myth that women
must work twice as hard: Are you overloading yourself?
- Before putting work ahead of
your personal life...a few things to think twice about
- Expand your possibilities!
Don’t pigeonhole yourself or allow others to
- Passion: Why it’s one of the
top qualities people want to see in their leaders
- What top managers really look
for when deciding whom to promote
- No resting on your laurels:
How to seek new opportunities to take risks...take charge...and
prime the pump for change
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Course Summary |
This two-day workshop is a rare opportunity to acquire important leadership skills and use those newfound skills to gain the respect of co-workers and those you supervise. |
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Virtual Classroom (Live) |
Who Should Attend |
Women Leaders & Managers |
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