Women Advancing in Leadership

This women in leadership course will give you a unique opportunity to think about your leadership role, personal values and career goals and how you can overcome the challenges you face as a female leader.

Full day

Overview
Who is it for?
Your facilitator
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Overview: Women in leadership

Only 6% of FTSE 100 CEOs are female, while the percentage of women on FTSE 250 boards stands at only 29.6%. It’s fair to say women face innumerable challenges when it comes to holding leadership roles.

This course offers you the opportunity to examine your leadership style, consider how it interacts with your personal value and career goals and identify how you can overcome the barriers you face as a female leader.

We will consider what may hold you back from progression in your career - and give you practical advice and strategies for how this can be tackled.

You will also gain an understanding of the latest research on gender in leadership and what your own challenges are as a female leader. You’ll leave the day with new insights and practical actions that’ll empower you to achieve success in your career.

Please note, for the online dates taking place in our Virtual Classroom we will take a break for lunch between 12.30pm and 2.00pm (1.5 hours).

What you'll learn

Current leadership thinking and the key challenges facing women in leadership roles today
How gender messages have affected your behaviour as a leader
How to build and maintain confidence and self belief
The importance of enhancing your strengths and how to achieve this
How to improve your resilience
Why language matters and how to challenge negative messages
Communicating with confidence and raising your profile to those who matter
Effective networking, including practical tips to build your professional network
How to influence at a business strategy level
Leading culture change - how to take a key role in changing your organisational culture
Work/life pressures - strategies for managing competing demands
The top nine senior leadership competencies you need and what high performance looks like

Who is it for?

This course is for all female professionals, managers or directors who want to develop and progress in their career within a leadership role. While supporting you to develop your leadership skill set, this course also gives you the opportunity to work with a group of female leaders experiencing similar challenges in their roles.

Your facilitator

Emma Walker-Cotton

Emma is an award winning trainer specialising in leadership development. She has over 20 years' experience of training design and delivery in both the public and private sector, including working as a director for a large housing association and for Amnesty International.

Emma is passionate about individuals having the opportunity to fulfil their potential and creates a positive, fun and stimulating learning environment. She always ensures that participants leave the day with practical skills they can use in their organisation. Emma has an MSc in Organisational Psychology and is qualified in running Psychometrics through the British Psychological Society.

Joanne Spencer

Meet Joanne. She has been working in the change management and transformation space for over 30 years and specialises in working with individuals, teams and organisations to maximise potential and enable continuous and sustainable improvements and growth.

She developed her insight and experience by working with a wide range of organisations within the Private Sector, including retail, banking, automotive, technology, the Public Sector including NHS, Central and Local Government and also works extensively within the Charity Sector.

Her experience as an NLP Master Practitioner, Programme Manager, facilitator and experienced coach in such varied and complex organisations gave her a taste for personal and professional development, and it's a passion that has stayed with her ever since!

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I attended the Women Advancing in Leadership Course. Emma was a fantastic trainer giving a great balance between theory, practice and networking opportunity. The course covers a lot, is backed by research and delivered in an engaging way. It covered areas I hadn't come across before and there is lots that I have been applying in my role since attending.

Emma was a fantastic trainer!

Really fantastic event. The day was packed full of interesting information & we had lots of opportunity to discuss and share our own experiences. Came away from the day with a lot of really useful tools to advance and a new network of women at a similar career level.

Fantastic

Positive and interesting techniques to focus on competencies and resilience. Good terminology which will help with strategic thinking and monitoring own progress. Good overview of why stereotypes exist and how we as professional females can help to change behaviour in the work place.

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