Programme Content
Module 1: Strength-based approach and your leadership strengths
Reframe your mindset around strength-based leadership development.
Explore career advancement challenge through reflective learning.
Discuss what it takes to be a good leader – consider the perspectives and expectations of those you lead.
Collect qualitative feedback on your strengths and leadership qualities.
Identify development areas to unlock your leadership potential.
Module 2: Finding meaning in work and resilience
Explore how to find meaning in your work.
Consider the elements that influence happiness levels.
Understand resilience and how to deal with challenges more effectively – identify your triggers and pause buttons.
Articulate your personal vision statement and identify and balance the energisers and drainers in your workday.
Module 3: The power of communication and negotiation strategies
Focus on how your physical habits affect the impression you give others, and how they affect how you’re feeling.
Improve your physical presence, posture, eye-contact and breathing through a series of exercises with Leandra Ashton, actress and founder of the Flying Cloud Theatre.
Explore negotiation strategies and learn how to overcome the specific challenges affecting women.
Use a practical framework to strengthen your negotiation approach as a female leader.
Module 4: Networks and how leaders define success
Explore the critical role that networks play in your advancement to leadership positions.
Identify key characteristics of your network and areas for improvement.
Recognise how you as a leader define success for yourself, your teams and your followers.
Module 5: Career negotiation strategies
Explore how to advocate for yourself and negotiate effectively for higher compensation package.
Work through a case study and discuss how to deal with dismissive comments and make a compelling case for yourself.
Examine how power is used, deflected and redefined.
Recognise the challenges of negotiating with superiors and the gender influence.
Learn to negotiate more confidently and effectively.
Module 6: Managing difficult conversations and the power of communication
Case study: Watch a difficult conversation between a rising woman leader and one of her reports – discuss what she does well and what she could improve.
Identify key behaviours to manage difficult conversations.
Discover how to use vocal dynamics to ensure you are heard.
Learn techniques to generate new ideas in your team and ensure positive outcomes.
