Skills For Women at Work

DAY 1

The Changing Role of Women at Work

• Getting to know each other

• Setting the context – changing the world of work for women

• Role Models – successful women at work

• Overcoming stereotypes and glass ceilings

• Leadership Skills for Women

• Explore values, attitudes, and beliefs about women as leaders

• Knowing and accepting yourself as a leader

• Making things happen from anywhere in the organization

• Understanding and clarifying purpose, vision, and mission

• External and internal customer service

DAY 2

Taking Control of your Life

• The secret to working smarter rather than harder

• To do or not to do - how to use a priority matrix

• Achieving results through others

• Making a long term plan to create the best office in the company!

• How to ‘get it together’ when you feel scattered and pulled in all directions

• De-cluttering and organizing your life

• Life balance for women

• Mind Mapping for planning, problem-solving and creative thinking

• Right brain/left brain theory

• Finding the balance of the masculine logical brain and feminine intuitive brain

DAY 3

Self-Esteem for Peak Performance

• Where does self-esteem come from and why we lose it?

• The relationship between self-esteem, self-respect, self-confidence, and self-motivation

• Determining your comfort zone - self-image/self-talk/goals

• Overcoming the ABC (anger/blame/complain) of self-esteem killers

• Building and sustaining high self-esteem

• The ABC of self-transformation (awareness/beliefs/commitment)

• How to free yourself from fear

• The law of cause and effect - the principle of creating positive outcomes

• How to make and keep commitments to your self

• Finding greater meaning and purpose in your work

• Ten steps to Peak Performance (Linking self-esteem to effectiveness at work)

• Image and Self-projection for today’s professional woman

DAY 4

Vital Communication Skills

• Networking – making conversation and connections

• Representing your organization in the public arena

• Political Savvy – the unwritten power skills for professional women

• Assertive Communication

• Understanding and using body language

• The most effective way to say no

• Communicating with Confidence

• Understanding gender differences

• Overcome biases and discomfort associated with exercising power

• Understanding different personality types and how to deal with them

DAY 5

Self-Empowerment and Self-Management

• Understanding the main causes of stress for women

• How to build self-confidence and strength the ability to respond to difficult situations

• How to relax and refresh the mind and body

• The signs, symptoms, causes, and triggers to stress

• Why stress is a powerful messenger

• How to break the vicious cycle of stressful thinking

• The essential skills of emotional intelligence

• Using emotional intelligence at work

• Transforming fear and negativity and reactive-ness

• Becoming a more proactive, responsible and self-aware person