Women in Leadership
This 30-hour programme helps women build the presence, influence and confidence to lead and progress.
About this course
This 30-hour programme helps women build the presence, influence and confidence to lead and progress. Over five days you will explore your strengths and leadership style, practise speaking with authority, communicate assertively and grow a network that supports your goals.
Practical sessions on negotiation, including pay and promotion, sit alongside honest discussion of workplace barriers, resilience and balance. You will also look at leading and developing teams. You leave with a personal career strategy, a development plan and an Alalamia certificate.
What you'll learn
- Identify your strengths, values and leadership style
- Develop a confident leadership presence in meetings and presentations
- Build influence and grow a supportive professional network
- Prepare for and conduct negotiations, including for pay and promotion
- Communicate assertively and handle difficult conversations
- Recognise and respond to common workplace barriers
- Create a personal career strategy and development plan
Curriculum
- What leadership means today
- Self-assessment of strengths and values
- Your leadership style
- Setting goals for the course
- Confidence and self-belief
- Voice, body language and impact
- Speaking up in meetings
- Presenting with authority
- Assertive, passive and aggressive styles
- Saying no and setting boundaries
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Handling difficult conversations
- Sources of influence
- Stakeholder mapping
- Building and using a network
- Mentors and sponsors
- Preparing to negotiate
- Negotiating pay, roles and resources
- Managing pressure and objections
- Practice negotiations
- Common barriers and biases
- Self-doubt and imposter feelings
- Balancing work and personal life
- Resilience and wellbeing
- Motivating and developing others
- Delegation
- Leading through change
- Supporting other women to grow
- Personal brand and visibility
- Planning your next career steps
- Personal development plan
- Presentations and course review
Who it's for
Women in professional, supervisory and management roles, and those preparing to step into leadership.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
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