Transitioning into Leadership: A Programme for Women Executives (TLPWE)

The programme will be a 12 month, 50 sessions intensive platform/ face to face, featuring a mix of lectures, case studies and workshops. It intends to sensitize participants to the transformation of women in organizations from managerial roles to leadership positions, and subsequently attempts to equip the participants with both theoretical and applied skills that would guide them to navigate their paths through the complex processes of managerial renovations. In the process, they would engage with a variety of executive dimensions that require leadership vision, self-exploration and understanding, skills, applications and articulations. How do women in the corporate become effective leaders is the broad question this program intends to respond to at various levels of managerial, administrable and political crossroads.

Transformation from managerial to leadership roles for working women professionals. The programme will include the following modules:

Programme Content

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Module 1

Women in management: An introduction to specific issues women face as they navigate their careers in organizations.

Global Perspectives on Gender

Women in Management

You will be able to appreciate how your status as a woman and a professional relates to the organization and society and the impact DEI initiatives could have on you.

Module 2

Leading and managing teams

Managing and leading teams

Conflict management

Effective negotiations

Interpersonal skills

You will gain insight what holds you back in negotiations and how to become more effective in the same. You will be able to overcome your anxieties associated with leading teams and realise your full range of potential.

Module 3

Birds eye view of organizational functions

Basics of financial markets

Operations

Marketing

Introduction to financial accounting

At the end of this module, you will develop breadth in your managerial expertise. Whatever may be the function you are coming from, you will be able to understand how it relates to other domains of management and organization.

Module 4

Managing in a digital age

Digital transformation

Data analytics

Digital marketing

With this module, you will familiarise yourself with how digital intersects your functional domains and gain working knowledge of common digital tools and practices.

Module 5

Leadership communication

Storytelling, and trans-medial narratives

Data presentations

Strategic communication, persuasion and argumentation

Communication Analytics

Gamification

Through this module, you will unblock your communication limitations. You will discover your forte and learn to use techniques and methods such as story-telling, narratives and gamification to communicate and persuade effectively. You will develop the confidence to communicate like a leader.

Module 6

Legal and human resource perspectives

Human Resource Management

Legal Perspectives

Through this module, you will add to your breadth of management understanding and become aware of the legal and human resources issues you need to be mindful of as you pursue your leadership work.

Module 7

Working women in emerging markets

Post-colonial women

Through these sessions, you will transform your mental models of leadership and being professional to tap into the strengths you bring to the table as a woman You will learn how to reconfigure your limitations as advantages and thereby overcome the personal and professional challenges you have been facing.

Module 8

Building ones leadership potential

Self-awareness and emotional intelligence

Coaching and mentoring

Behaviour and cognition

Learn the techniques for continuous improvement via self-awareness, building influence and developing your team and subordinates. Learn to manage your biases.

Module 9

Strategic leadership

Organization: structure and strategy

Strategic leadership

Become adept at understanding the competitive advantage and the essence of strategic thinking and leadership.

Pedagogy

The pedagogy will be highly interactive. It will leverage use of technology and will consist of, depending on the subject, a judicious blend of lectures, real life case studies, quizzes, and assignments.