Women in leadership

Women in Leadership

The much discussed "war for talent" is a major issue for organisations today. Senior executives claim that attracting, developing and retaining talent is now critical to achieve organisational objectives.

Against this background, developing senior and high potential women managers to make the transition to more senior leadership positions makes good business sense.

MGSM’s Women in Leadership program will assist women enhance their strategic thinking, leadership, commercial acumen and influencing skills. The program will combine academically rigorous models and frameworks with practical techniques to apply in the work place.

A blended learning style of presentations, case study discussions, group work and experiential activities will equip participants with a new set of skills. Just as importantly, participants will learn from other high calibre women participants and guest speakers as role models.

Content

Strategy Development & Implementation

Developing and implementing strategy are critical leadership skills. This session covers strategy frameworks such as Porter’s Five Forces, McKinsey 7S model and Values-based strategy. It also addresses the challenge of strategy execution, the importance of stakeholder engagement and strategy implementation techniques.

Leadership from a Female Perspective

Leadership is working through others. This session covers situational and values-based leadership models from a female perspective. Topics addressed include the manager as coach, managing difficult conversations, understanding your organisation’s DNA and building your talent pipeline.

Finance Management

Many have described finance as the language of business. This session covers financial management concepts and practices required for senior executives, the role of finance, investment evaluation, net present value and Internal Rate of Return, raising funds and gearing.

Communicate with Impact (NIDA)

The essence of effective leadership is the ability to inspire others. This session involves NIDA actors exploring voice projection, understanding how your gestures, movement and language are interpreted by others, creating presence and communicating with impact. Participants will tread the boards at NIDA’s theatre in a highly experiential session.

Negotiation Skills for Women

Negotiation is a critical part of every senior female manager’s day. This session potential pitfalls women may face in workplace negotiations. It then explores the traditional positional bargaining and the Harvard interest-based or "win-win" models. Experiential exercises will assist participants to apply key learnings.

Power and Influence

Senior female managers need to influence upwards, downwards, sideways and externally. This session explores organisational dynamics and how leaders utilise power through position, control of resources, expertise, charisma or personal loyalty. Topics covered include stakeholder management, influencing strategies and building networks.

Your Personal Journey

Advancing your career as a senior woman leader is typically both incredibly rewarding while also fraught with frustration. This session covers the personal aspects of this journey. Participants will gain deep insights from both feedback on their 360 degree behaviour-based survey and from engagement with others during the week. This session explores views on work-life balance. Participants will receive assistance in developing a Personal Action Plan and discuss implementation upon returning to the workplace.

AIM’s Women in Leadership program has been designed to assist emerging women managers to make the transition to more senior leadership positions and establish their own leadership style. Using the experiences of motivational speakers including Lois Frankel, author of ’Nice Girls Don’t get the Corner Office’, interactive workshops and mentoring, participants will build skills in areas that many women find challenging, such as negotiation and assertiveness.
The program will also provide inspiration through guest speakers as role models. Participants will examine the image they project through the verbal and non-verbal language they use, appearance, presentation and interpersonal skills. They will then develop a personal action plan to work towards projecting an image that is consistent with how they want others to see them.

Learning outcomes

Understand your leadership style
Build a supportive network of business relationships
Use the language of business and finance
Develop negotiation and influencing skills
Build a personal brand and market yourself
Develop a personal action plan

Course content

Pivotal leadership skills
What to look for in a mentor
Power and influence
The difficult conversations
Core financial concepts including reading a P&L statement
The language of strategic planning
The risks you can’t afford not to take
Life-work balance
How to market yourself

The most requested Hot Topic is one aimed at young women in leadership. There are special pressures facing young women who step up to the mark early in their careers to lead others, often much older than themselves. This is especially the case in workplaces that have been traditionally male dominated. This Hot Topic will be a panel session where young women will share their journeys and their learnings �the things that enabled them to survive “the glass labyrinth�and the “on ramps�and “off ramps�that often punctuate a woman’s career. This Hot Topic is recommended for leaders and aspiring leaders under the age of 35.

This program has been developed as a direct result of the ‘Women in Management Survey Report� Professional development was indicated as crucial to career planning and managing the multifaceted roles of women. This program consists of five half day sessions and one full day over a six week period.
Participants will be guided through contemporary ideas on leadership, career planning, negotiation and management and are encouraged to develop a greater understanding of themselves and their impact on others. They will also learn how to overcome barriers that can exist in the workplace that may hinder professional growth.

Content
Balance of life/career planning
Setting personal and professional goals
Stress management
Managing gender differences
Developing self confidence
Motivation
Coaching and mentoring
Recognising the benefits of effective coaching
How to find and be a good mentor
Management
Managing in a turbulent environment
Business ethics
Successful business stories
Leadership
Developing transactional and transformational leadership
Analysis of your leadership philosophy
The issues of values and ethics in leaders
Effective communication
Communication styles
Characteristics of assertive communication
Difficult people and situations
Persuasion and influencing
Influence and personal power
Altering the balance of power during negotiation
Rights and responsibilities
Adapting to the needs and styles of others.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of attending this program, participants should be able to:
Be in a position to take charge of their future
Be in a position to devise career action plans
Understand how to benefit from coaching and mentoring roles in the workplace
Develop transactional and transformational leadership practices
Develop more confidence in their ability to mobilise others toward action
Be able to use specific skills to build group cohesion and improve communication
Have a range of change strategies to implement and overcome blocks in the workplace
Develop their analytical and systems thinking to improve their leadership effectiveness.

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