Target Audience
Skilling women to drive change & excel in your chosen career.
MODULE CONTENT
Session 1
Your People, Your Purpose, Your Strengths
- Identify & determine individual & team strengths
- Learn to leverage individual strengths
- Leverage team strengths to increase personal performance
- How your strengths help vs hinder
- Who can – and does – benefit from your strengths?
- How others perceive your strengths
- Understanding the environment your strengths thrive in
- Creating a state of productive ‘flow’ through strengths”
The Confidence Gap – Why Men Step up & Women Step back
- Research shows compared with men, women don’t consider themselves as ready for promotions, predict they’ll do worse on tests, and generally underestimate their abilities.
- Participants will identify the origin of this disparity – nature vs nurture
- Learn to identify your ‘toxic coach’ (inner dialogue)
Session 2
Superpowers of Introverts & Extroverts
- Differences in cognitive ability
- How to re-energise introverts & extroverts in a work environment
- Biology of introversion / extroversion
- Trait strengths & weaknesses
- How to adapt communication styles to gain better outcomes
- How to create the environment for each to thrive
Men & Women – The Communication Gap
- Understanding the disparity between men and women in both verbal & non-verbal communication
- Understanding non-verbal communication, & individual triggers, to improve interactions
- Capacity to self-assess body language, understand impact on others & alter communication style to improve outcomes
- Build self-awareness and self-regulation
- Inspiring camaraderie, trust, & loyalty in those around you
- Innate understanding of emotional intelligence across genders
The Imposter Syndrome
- Imposter Syndrome stops females from stepping up and stepping forward
- Identify, understand and quiet your negative internal dialogue
- Understanding the source of your self-doubt – the limbic brain
- Name it to manage it – challenging your limbic brain’s negative narrative
- Sharing narratives to normalise isolated individual dialogues
- ‘Red Rabbit, Blue Dolphin’ – using neuroscience to ‘quieten the chatter’
Session 3
Next Generation Leadership
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- Understand the strengths of female leadership & what industry needs today
- Identify individual current and desired leadership styles
- Create greater awareness of capabilities & untapped potentials
- Understand & manage roadblocks – your own &those imposed upon you
- Attracting & retaining millennials & Gen Y
- Learning to self-assess with transparency – the comfort in discomfort
- The influence of identity
- Key leadership traits
- Leading with authenticity
- Create awareness of external perceptions
- Daily self-coaching benchmark questions
Stop Apologising – Building Confidence, Trust & Respect
- Understanding how female language & behaviours can undermine impact & minimise your presence, contribution & authority
- Why females are driven to lead with ‘I’m sorry’
- Changing ‘sorry’ for ‘thankyou’ – language, phrasing & owning your strengths
- Functioning and communicating via both logic & emotion
Allies & Advocates – Building & Benefitting from a Network
- Identifying & challenging women vs women behaviour
- What stops us from advocating for each other
- Finding your mentors
- How to build your support network
- The benefits – both physically & psychosocially
Session 4
Effective Delegation - how to delegate from bottom up
- How to delegate for succession planning, to upskill, and to motivate
- Strategies to overcome individual challenges in delegating (incl. power distance / power disparity)
- Understanding & creating your required mindset change
- Challenging previously unidentified belief concepts
Active Listening for Leaders
- Strategies to strengthen capacity to effectively listen
- Understanding effective listening builds kick-a!#s cultures (staff retention, motivation, productivity)
- What effective listening looks like, sounds like, feels like
- Individual listening styles
- How to ensure your key people feel heard & valued
Managing Misogyny
- Why misogyny??
- Identifying male & female misogyny – are you part of the problem?
- Creating a change culture
- Advocacy vs apathy
Session 5
Feedback Fundamentals: Mastering Motivating Feedback
- How to motivate individuals to perform as a cohesive team without spending $$
- Capacity to deliver effective, respectful, constructive feedback
- Leading with ‘Why’
- Female strengths in delivering feedback
- The power of recognition & acknowledgement to increase retention, productivity, motivation, job satisfaction
- Filtering the bad & identifying the intent
- Recognition script – it’s foolproof!
Benefits of Female Leadership in Male-dominated Industries
- Why pushing past the roadblocks is worth it
- Is this about me, or is it really about you?
- What women bring to the role
- Legacy vs trailblazer vs advocator
Building Resilience & Mental Strength
- Finding your narrative
- Building resilience using the three pillars framework
- Identifying and leveraging mental strength
- Stepping into discomfort; growth in discomfort
- Identifying what you can / can’t control
- Managing your mindset
Session 6
Difficult Discussions & Crucial Conversations (Conflict Management)
- Difficult discussions made easy
- Triggers, biases & perceptions
- Psychology of conflict – why irritations occur (male / female strategies)
- The science behind why we struggle with confrontation & conflict
- Threats & fears
- Change & emotions; assumptions & mindsets
- Defence mechanisms
- Resolution Process Template
Women vs Women: Challenging vs Championing (Panel Event)
Panel Event: Why do some women in the workplace champion for you & others challenge everything you say?
Hear from our panel on past experiences and how they have learned to work alongside ‘challengers’ and, for some, change them to ‘championers’.
Location:
Mackay – Resources Centre of Excellence
Duration:
6 x Full Day – monthly
Cost:
$1808 per person
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