Strategically Influencing Across Your Organisation for Women in Business

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Key Learning Objectives

• Improve your effectiveness as a woman leader throughout your organisation
• Develop greater self-confidence and self-awareness as a leader
• Develop a different mindset to find solutions that work for everyone
• Break down the silos
• Learn how to promote yourself effectively without damaging your reputation
• Develop high-performing teams
• Develop your own strategy for success within your organisation

 

 

What will you gain from attending?

• Learn how to influence effectively across the organisation
• Learn how great leaders break down the silos that often exist within organisations
• Discover some powerful communication tools to enable you to operate more effectively
• Develop a reputation as a solution finder
• Identify and remove obstacles to outstanding performance
• Develop high-performing teams
• Develop greater self-confidence and self-awareness as a leader
• Before the day is out, you will also have crafted your own action plan and thought about strategies to ensure that you put that plan into action.
  
  

Who should attend?
This two-day seminar has been designed for women from all industries, sectors and organisation types who aspire to, or are already in leadership positions and want to tap into their full potential and achieve more than they have in the past.

 

Training methodology

This intensive 2-day seminar will combine tutorial sessions and case studies with interactive learning exercises. We use the principles of adult learning and draw upon a variety of modalities to create a powerful, stimulating environment for the participants, including:

• Socratic interaction
• Small and large group work
• Presentation of models and theory
• Individual reflection and journaling
• Ice breakers and similar energizers

 

All attendees will be provided with a workbook and a certificate of completion.

Agenda

Day One

 

BE AT YOUR BEST: THE FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF A SUCCESSFUL LEADER

• What’s the difference between a leader and a manager?
• What are the qualities of great leaders?
• Set yourself up for achievement and success
• The importance and relevance of coaching and mentoring for you.
• Understanding the ‘Imposter Syndrome’ and how that may be affecting you
• Manage your self-sabotaging behaviours and habits
• Use your unique skills and talents to create success for yourself and others
• Enhance your performance by learning to embrace uncertainty
• Be calm and confident in difficult situations
• Develop creativity by using your curiosity

 

CREATE STRONG RELATIONSHIPS USING SIMPLE TOOLS

• The importance of first impressions
• Be assertive because you are confident
• Communicate effectively, even with difficult people
• Create productive relationships where each individual is engaged and contributes their best to the outcome
• Get results by giving powerful feedback in a productive and positive manner
• Support others to be their best

 

INCREASE YOUR INFLUENCE

• Understand and leverage your personal power base
• Develop your credibility
• Motivate and inspire the people you lead, and even those you don’t
• Get support for your ideas from others
• Move from positional thinking to finding workable solutions to problems, that meet everyone’s needs
• Move disagreeable people to agreeable outcomes

 

CONFRONT CONFLICT WITH CONFIDENCE

• Overcome the fear of conflict
• Remain calm in confrontational situations
• Demystify and de-power other’s discontent
• Find win-win solutions, even in sticky situations
• Steps to successfully managing conflict

 

Day Two

 

WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER

• How do you achieve more with less?
• Spend time to make time
• Reduce your stress and increase your energy each day
• Learn to enjoy letting go and to let go with confidence.

 

MAKE CHANGE MANAGEABLE

• Overcome the challenge of change
• Understand the journey to change for individuals, teams and organisations so you can lead the way
• Promote progress by being prepared for the pitfalls of change
• Strategically align your systems to support success
• Enhance your ability to manage unexpected and unwanted change

 

CREATE THE SYNERGY THAT BRINGS SUCCESS

• Create a high performing team
• Break down organisational silos

 

UNLEASH YOUR LEADERSHIP CAPACITY

• Commit to positive change so you don’t suffer the alternatives
• Develop structures to support your success
• Prepare for your future
• Ensure your promote-ability

Facilitator

In-house Training

Find out more about running Strategically Influencing Across Your Organisation for Women in Business, in-house at your organisation:

Contact Mia-Jane Yee (Training Manager) on or fill in the form below.

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Prices and Registration

Dates	Location	Standard price	Early bird price*
Training Course SD062 14 - 15 June	Auckland	$1995 + GST	$1895 + GST (EB Date: 18 May)	Register
Training Course SD062 28 - 29 June	Wellington	$1995 + GST	$1895 + GST (EB Date: 18 May)	Register

* Early bird price available when you register and pay before the dates listed.