WOMEN IN
LEADERSHIP

Objective: Learn about the inherent challenges and opportunities for women in leadership

• - Workplace inequality: Where we've come from and where we are now
• - Impact of COVID & economic conditions on women
• - Mindset Matters Most
• - Power, influence, and authority: Knowing the difference
• - Determining Your Why
• - Workshop: Developing a personal Mission Statement and Core Values

Assignment #1: The 7 Why’s Exercise

 

Resources: https://www.rebootrepresentation.org/

Objective: Discover your purpose and vision and learn to tell your story

• - The importance of self-awareness in career management
• - Understanding the components of a personal brand
• - Creating key elements of your brand and being able to talk about yourself
• - Offline and online branding (Social Media strategies)
• - Linking or not linking your brand to your company or organization's brand
• - Analyze examples of successful female leaders. Why did they succeed? Where did they struggle?
• - Workshop: Develop your Simple Sentence Story

Workshop Details: Develop your Simple Sentence Story. This will be used to introduce yourself to new audiences.

Objective: Examine different types of intelligence, and learn to communicate as a leader

• - IQ: Functional Excellence
• - EQ: Emotional Intelligence as a superpower
• - AQ: Adaptability and a growth mindset
• - 4 Basic components of EI: How to increase EQ and AQ
• - Workshop: Introduction to nonviolent communication

Assignment #2: Eliminate emotional false beliefs (Reflection and Worksheet)

Objective:Build a strategy for overcoming challenges and always landing on your feet

• - Winter is Always Coming: How to Overcome Any Obstacle in Your Career
• - Top challenges in the workplace
• - Setting Healthy Boundaries and Overcoming Barriers
• - Managing Up and Leading Leaders (organizational politics)
• - Decisions: Your Pathway to Success

Assignment #3: Vision and Goal Exercise, Create your professional Scorecard

Objective: List techniques for collaborating and solving problems of all types

• - Methodology for rethinking problems
• - Generating Ideas (Design Thinking)
• - The Truth about Customer Obsession
• - Confidence building methods to stay motivated
• - Practice Makes Progress: Tools for Collaboration
• - Workshop: Generating Ideas

Assignment #4: 100 ways to stay motivated exercise, Hands-on with collaboration tools

Objective: Develop a personal branding strategy and understand the difference between mentorship and sponsorship.

• - 5 Steps to Bringing Your Authentic Voice to the World
• - Using inclusivity and influence to foster innovation
• - Becoming the most positive person in the room
• - Reciprocity and Servant Leadership
• - The Difference between Sponsorship and Mentorship for leaders

Assignment #5: Who am I exercise, Story Inventory, and Homework for Life

Objective: Practice giving and receiving feedback that is both positive and negative.

• - Importance of feedback and key challenges
• - The Feedback Sandwich
• - Empathy and Compassion
• - Vulnerability and Perceptions of Failure
• - Workshop: Bad news & Drive by sandwich

Workshop details: Practice the with 3 people, write a paragraph about your experience and be prepared to share with the group.

Assignment #6: 5 people to get feedback from (use a template povided by Noelle). Share your reflections. What was new? (200 words max.)

Objective: Vision, Goals, and Measuring What Matters

• - Know the vision of your leadership and of your employees
• - Understanding OKRs as a methodology for measuring results
• - Reporting What Resonates: The power of WBRs, MBRs, and QBRs
• - Tools and Resources for measuring the success of your team
• - In-class activity: Sharing a piece of your plan with peers

Assignment #7: Create OKRs for your life.

 

Resources: Measure what matters

Objective: Understand how to negotiate from a position of power and confidence

• - Always know where you want to go
• - Be Confident in the ask
• - Key strategies for negotiating win/win creation
• - Mindful Negotiations
• - Non-Violent Communication
• - Always be Negotiating
• - Role Play Exercise: I want a raise

Assignment #8: Make a list of things you need support of others to achieve professionally and personally. Pick 2 and think through your desired outcome and common objections. Practice role playing how you might negotiate for the best possible outcome.

Objective: Learn how to connect with like minded people and learn to be the CEO of your own life.

• - Myths about Networking
• - How Your Network is Your Net Worth
• - Become the CEO of your own life, and get an advisory board
• - Be congruent in your personal, professional, and digital life.
• - Workshop: Help and Be Helped

Assignment #9: Connect with everyone in class on Linkedin. Set up a coffee chat with one of your classmates

Objective: Discover mechanisms for self-care and establishing harmony in work and life

• - Defining Self-care
• - Having everything... with help
• - Tools and Tips for Creating a Virtuous Cycle of Work and Family
• - Focusing, stress management with mindfulness techniques
• - Building confidence through self-care
• - Workshop: Mindfulness and Meditation Practice

Assignment #10: Create a list of activities and practices that will help you feel centered, calm and taken care of. How will you prioritize these? Take the 7-day Mental Diet Challenge.

Objective: Build your personal and professional strategic plan to get the results you want in life.

• - Where do you want to go?
• - How can you get there?
• - What are the gaps in relationships or understanding?
• - 12 Month Plan: Working backwards from who you want to be a year from now
• - 90-Day Vision: Sub-targets are the key to success
• - Productivity Hacks for Female Leaders
• - What's next?

Assignment #11: Prepare a 90-Day Personal Development Plan