Increase your impact as a woman in a leadership position with this one-day CPD-certified workshop. Throughout the day we impart knowledge, skills, strategies and solutions to enable you to deepen self-awareness, delving into your own unique leadership style, and supporting you to harness your personal power.
The workshop provides a unique opportunity to discuss openly with other women in leadership roles who may have experienced similar challenges and obstacles as yourself when navigating gender impact, providing a platform to practice new skills learnt and ultimately leave the workshop with greater confidence and a better understanding of your own personal leadership style, along with strategies on how to elevate your career through negotiation skills, effective communication, personal brand and lastly building a powerful network of like-minded individuals.
On completion of the programme all delegates will be provided with a tool kit to develop their own personal brand and align social media – especially Linkedin as the professional network, which includes a Linkedin Audit tool.
For those looking for an accredited option please have a look at our popular CMI Level 7 Award for Women in Leadership, which provides delegates with the opportunity to complete a Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership practice.
Who Should Attend?
This course has been designed for women in or aspiring to be in leadership positions within any sector or industry. This course is particularly beneficial for women looking to be inspired by other like-minded women leaders.
At a glance
Benefits for Individuals:
- Drive your career progression.
- Increase your confidence to lead with impact.
- Gain a network of like-minded individuals who have faced similar challenges.
- Walk away with a tool kit to develop your personal brand and align your social media presence to your brand.
- Learn how to maximise your influence and have strategies for effective negotiations.
- Practice using a toolkit for effective communications so that your messages pack a real punch.
- Gain an insight into your leadership style and how to adapt according to the situation.
- A deeper understanding into how your network can help in achieving your career goals.
- Understand the dynamics of women at work and learn strategies for overcoming bias and managing self-doubt.
Benefits for Organisations:
- Cultivate a pipeline of strong, diverse leaders.
- Enhance leadership effectiveness and adaptability to change.
- Foster a supportive and inclusive workplace culture.
- Retain and develop top talent, particularly women in leadership.
- Drive innovation and operational efficiency through the introduction of new ideas
- Understand your preferred leadership style and explore alternative styles that will enable you to better adapt to situations at work and navigate bias towards women leaders
- Describe different sorts of power to enable you to read the power dynamic in your own organisation, allowing you to describe your own source of power.
- Identify the key components needed to maximise influence at work
- Apply a toolkit for effective communication, including a framework for difficult conversations.
- Describe the types of negotiation and the key components of effective negotiation
- Map your network and identify ways to strengthen it.
- Define your personal brand and align your collateral to your core values.
- Be aware of strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome and how to get out of your own way
Morning Session – You as a leader
- Understanding your leadership style and how it is impacted by gender ·
- Types of power and knowing your own power
- Toolkit for confident communication
- How to have difficult conversations
Afternoon Session – Progressing your career
- Asking for what you want/framework for negotiation.
- Networking - Setting yourself up to succeed by creating a strategic and powerful network.
- Selling your personal brand · Understanding how to get out of your own way.
Anne Mcarthy
HR DIRECTOR – CHANGE LEADERS – NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Anne is a successful leader of change and is a passionate believer in setting people up to succeed. In her Royal Mail Career, Anne has worked with the CEO and her team to deliver transformational change.
This included:
- Designing and leading the people strategy to underpin Delivery Transformation focused on organisation design, learning and engagement touching 100,00 people.
- Leading Organisation Design for the HR Function.
- Changing the way Learning and Development were practised in the organisation.
- Designing and implementing a talent review for the top 200 operations leaders.
- Leading a £360m negotiation to reform operations in London.
Anne brings good energy to her work. She is renowned for understanding the business proposition first and applying HR practice to it. She stays up to date with current thinking and her trademark is to translate even the most complex change into simple communication to which people can relate.
A non-exec director, interim HR Director and Prince’s Trust mentor, Anne is now sharing her expertise across a broad range of business and not-for-profit organisations.
