Course description
This exciting 4-day programme has been designed specifically for female leaders,by female industry experts from our senior leadership delivery team. We have taken our flagship CMI Senior Leadership Programme and tailored it specifically to women in leadership positions. The programme offers a safe environment to facilitate those conversations that are not easily possible in a mixed and often male-dominated environment. Built on contemporary theory, we take an energetic, interactive, approach to really drill down on those areas within current leadership development that women in leadership need to negotiate to achieve personal, team and organisational success.
We begin by focusing on ‘self’ giving you much-needed time and space to consider your personal leadership style/signature, your inhibitors, your fountains and drains, and tools to deal with the ‘imposter’ that often lurks within! We move outward to consider the female leader’s role in inspiring and motivating teams, practicing authentic, values-based leadership, handling difficult conversations in a male dominant environment and the power of effective communication and negotiation. We practice coaching & mentoring for success and focus on developing a gender-inclusive strategy/workplace.
You will leave this programme feeling refreshed, peaceful, energised, and supported by a network of female professionals. You will have an action plan, supported by tools and techniques that can really make a difference to your personal and professional life and to your organisation’s strategy.
This programme is designed for women wishing to develop professional management and leadership practice, and who will have the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to drive business activities in a senior management and leadership role. It will be particularly relevant to those wishing to focus on key elements specific to women in leadership practice, and to the creation of a gender-inclusive business strategy.
*Please note that some of the materials and objectives may be subject to change depending on discussions, activities and needs of the cohort upon reflection of delegate responses to the pre-programme questionnaires.*
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
On completion of this programme, delegates will:
- Have a clear understanding of their personal leadership signature and tools to increase self-awareness.
- Have an increased factual knowledge of gender inequality in today’s working environment and strategies to be able to overcome this.
- Identify one’s ‘drains’ and ‘fountains’, how to overcome the dreaded ‘imposter’, move out of the ‘drama triangle’ and move one’s career as a woman in leadership in a positive direction.
- Have a clearer understanding of ‘leadership’ versus ‘management’ and tools to drive a values-based, authentic leadership culture through teams and the organisation.
- Be able to inspire others to lead through positive motivation and overcoming some of the common dysfunctions of teams.
- Develop skills for effective communication and negotiation in a male dominant working environment.
- Learn and practice coaching and mentoring skills for success.
- Develop a gender inclusive workplace/strategy.
- An action plan for negotiating personal, team and organisational success as a woman in leadership.
Training Course Content
Session 1
Your personal leadership signature:
Key themes include:
- The reality for women in leadership today: Key issues and facts
- Do you take care of yourself – how? – It’s in Betari’s Box!
- Knowing your ‘fountains’ and ‘drains!’
- Leadership and management in 2023
- The big Imposter Syndrome – accepting and believing in oneself!
- Self-awareness – tools, and techniques to develop your personal leadership signature.
Session 2
Inspiring others to lead:
Key themes include:
- Leading a diverse team as a female leader
- Don’t get hooked in the drama!
- The Power of Motivation – becoming a powerful female leader
- Authentic and values driven leadership – it’s at the ‘heart’ of what we do!
- Overcoming the common dysfunctions of a team – taking a female perspective.
- The “issues we face” – gender disparity, pay gaps, work-life balance, family responsibilities (caring for others), hormones! Menopause
- The power of effective communication – techniques to manage difficult conversations and to negotiate for success from a female perspective.
Session 3
The gender agenda! - Developing a gender-inclusive strategy/workplace:
Key themes include:
- EDI strategy and the gender agenda – managing our biases
- Gender equality and workplace inclusion
- Looking to the horizon: Horizon scanning model of applied strategy
- Case study: John Lewis Partnership
- Coaching and mentoring – tools and practice (it’s power to creating a gender balanced culture)
- The significance of reflective practice.
Session 4
The way forward…
Key themes include:
- Leading change in a turbulent world
- From fixed to a growth mindset – are we agile, really?
- Hybrid working and the future
- Back to the gender agenda – action planning for gender-inclusive strategy
- We have come full circle! – back to self–career negotiation strategy as a woman in leadership
- What’s next? Reflective practice and action planning.
Course delivery details
This course is available in both in-person and virtual classroom deliveries
Assessment
The CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership is designed for directors and senior managers who have the authority and personal inspiration to translate organisational strategy into effective performance.
This qualification requires senior and aspiring senior leaders to build on their skills in strategic management and leadership and to focus on the requirements of inter-organisational strategy. You will be required to take the theory, thought leadership and research discussed on the programme, and implement it in your professional life by focusing on your own leadership development, and positively challenging organisational strategy.
You will be required to complete one 3,500 – 4,000-word written assignments that require taught theory to be applied to the organisational context:
Unit 702: Leading and Developing People to Optimise Performance
Why choose In Professional Development
Delivered training to over 10,000 organisations
92% of delegates rate our courses as 5 star
Created over 2,500 CMI registrations
Expenses
In-person classroom fee: £2,600 + VAT
Virtual classroom fee: £2,100 + VAT
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