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.
Session One: Course Overview
Course Overview
Learning Objectives
Pre-Assignment
Pre-Course Assessment
Session Two: Women and the Workforce
Learning from History
Leadership Examined
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
Personal Inventory
Session Six: Developing a Brand
Creating Your Brand
Making Connections, Part One
Making Connections, Part Two
Selling and Screening Your Brand
Session Seven: Leadership Skills
Identifying Leadership Skills
Action Steps
Session Eight: Making Good Decisions
Ingredients of a Good Decision
Decision Wheel Method
Session Nine: Creating a Workplace Philosophy
Philosophy Statement
Building a Plan
Personal Action Plan
Course Summary
Recommended Reading List
Post-Course Assessment
Pre- and Post- Course Assessment Answer Keys
Pre-Course Assessment
Post-Course Assessment
Assignment Answer Key
Session Two: Women and the Workforce
Session Seven: Leadership Skills