Women have a long-standing history in the workforce, in all roles from front-line worker to visionary founder, influential behind-the-scenes patron to front-and-center CEO. As women, however, what are the influences, barriers and benefits to leadership? Do women use or acknowledge their strengths and skills?
Women Leadership: Owning Your Strengths and Skills?explores the history of women in the workforce and offers personal opportunities for exploration, identification, and development of leadership strengths and skills.
The nine sessions in this one-day course contain activities that build upon the lessons. Some of the topics covered include: barriers versus benefits, understanding self-awareness, personal inventory, creating and selling your brand, and leadership skills.
The content includes a number of different training components, including an instructor’s guide, PowerPoint slides, quick reference guide, marketing advertorial, and much more.
How to Use This Guide
Session One: Course Overview
Session Two: Women and the Workforce
Learning from our History
Session Three: Barriers and Benefits to Women’s Leadership
Barriers vs. Benefits
Improving Self-Management through Reflection
Session Four: Social and Emotional Intelligence
Defining Emotional Intelligence
Session Five: Self-Awareness
Understanding Self-Awareness
Session Six: Developing Leadership Awareness and Brand
Personal Inventory
Creating and Selling Your Brand
Making Connections, Part One
Making Connections, Part Two
Selling and Screening your Brand and Ideas
Session Seven: Leadership Skills
Identifying Relationship Skills
Identifying Leadership Skills
Session Eight: Making Good Decisions
Ingredients of a Good Decision
Good Decision - Poor Decision
Decision Wheel Method
Session Nine: Creating Your Workplace Philosophy
Philosophy Statement
Recommended Reading List
Post-Course Assessment
Pre- and Post-Assessment Answer Keys
Personal Action Plan