About

Leadership for Women is designed for women who have a strong desire to grow deeper in their personal and professional development and who yearn to share with other women their experiences, aspirations, challenges and concerns. The course will present you with up-to-date research and leadership models for women leaders and help you to integrate the practical and intellectual principles of effective leadership with your own authentic leadership style.

In New Zealand we currently have a number of women in high profile public positions but women are still generally under-represented at senior management level and on boards of directors. Many women leaders today are torn between the often conflicting demands of career, personal life and wellbeing. The pressure can be intense, and the price of promotion too high to pay.

Leadership for Women provides a safe, open learning environment for women leaders like you to fully explore your potential and advance your career with courage and confidence. The sessions are highly interactive, and designed to stimulate not just your thinking, but your deeper senses of intuition and knowing. You will leave with an expanded sense of what’s possible and what’s right for you, plus some great skills for relating to others, building effective teams, managing change, and surviving the rigours of the workplace whilst maintaining balance in your life.

7 GREAT REASONS TO ATTEND
Great reasons to attend this training programme designed specifically for women:
1. Learn strategies for dealing with organisational politics, power and gender issues.
2. Create a fantastic team/workplace culture through generating a climate of trust and empowerment.
3. Identify and address the fears, inhibitions, habits, and other factors that may be holding you back.
4. Explore ways of achieving better work/life balance and coping with the often intense pressures on women in the workforce.
5. Understand the models and principles of effective leadership not just intellectually but physically, emotionally and spiritually.
6. Communicate with confidence and compassion, resolving conflict with courage and grace.
7. Understand and manage the change process, utilising resistance positively.

“Robyn set a very comfortable and professional setting from the beginning to end. Her facilitation of the course – which at times brought up challenging discussion – was handled extremely well. She was very ‘real’, honest, well informed, and unquestionably passionate about this seminar and I would highly recommend this course to anyone. Don’t change your training style Robyn.”
Hirata Harris, Marketing Manager, L.J. Hooker

“Thank you Robyn for creating a ‘safe’ environment to learn and work in, with regard to the personal stuff, in such a short time.”
Eileen Paulin, Senior Partnerships Advisor, Ministry of Education

Outline

Approaches to Leadership
•    Defining leadership
•    Leadership styles:  traditional vs. “next generation”
•    Adapting your leadership style as your team progresses
•    Authentic Leadership research results
•    Learning and applying the four “biggies” of Authentic Leadership – being Centered, Open, Real, Effortless.
•    Integrating the skills of management and leadership for maximum effectiveness.
•    Creating high performance and high commitment
•    Why the “soft stuff” (personal and interpersonal) is more important than the “hard stuff”  (operational and structural)
•    Implications for managing change
•    10 steps towards managing change successfully   

Exploring Your Own Leadership Style, and Potential as a Leader
•    “Peeling the onion” to reveal what drives you, and what holds you back.
•    Turning what you thought were weaknesses into strengths.
•    Discovering the core of your personal power and harnessing it for greater energy and effectiveness
•    Becoming a more effortless and influential leader by leading from “the inside out”
•    Developing a purpose worthy of who you are

Communication and Conflict Mastery
•    How to talk so others will listen, and listen so others feel heard
•    The power of presence: how to return to centre
•    Understanding conflict as a necessary part of progress
•    Managing conflict with courage and grace
•    Dealing with “pinches” before they become “crunches”
•    A step-by step guide to difficult conversations
•    Practice with “real life” scenarios

Thriving and Surviving as a Woman Leader
•    Work/life balance – awareness of the “3 pulls” (self, others, work) and ways of integrating these.
•    The importance of looking after number one: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually
•    Letting go of unnecessary tasks
•    Building resilience to get you through the hard times
•    Dealing with guilt, jealousy and criticism
•    Negotiating organisational politics, power and gender issues
•    Presenting and promoting yourself as a leader
•    Coaching as a powerful tool for developing yourself and your staff



Helpful tools to take away:
1.    Teamwork Inventory for assessing the current state of your team
2.    Polarity Map for making difficult decisions
3.    Goal-setting made simple
4.    10 + 1 ways to manage time and beat stress
5.    Advice from some of today’s female leaders
6.    Reading list

Facilitator

Robyn Wynne-Lewis, Managing Director, Core Consulting

Robyn Wynne-Lewis runs Core Consulting, a Hawke’s-Bay based business consultancy that specialises in leadership development. As a professional trainer and coach, Robyn works with individuals and teams from the corporate, private and government sectors. She is the lead facilitator in New Zealand and Australia of a three and a half day residential retreat known as the Leadership Development Intensive (LDI). The LDI has attracted clients from leading organisations including Les Mills International, TVNZ, and The Reserve Bank.

Robyn’s approach to leadership development goes beyond tips and techniques. She engages people in the deeper exploration of what inspires them to perform, and what keeps that inspiration alive. Robyn has trained and worked with John Scherer, author of Work and the Human Spirit, an internationally recognised leadership consultant and coach.

Robyn’s background includes five years as a Health Service Manager, 10 years as a Hellerwork Practitioner, and three years as a secondary school teacher. Her lively, open manner is complemented by an ability to connect and work deeply with people, enabling them to reach new levels of personal discovery.

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