Get to the top: Next level leadership for women in business

Course overview:

What will it take to advance your leadership to the next level? This one-day leadership course prepares you with the key skills required to build and engage a high performing team, own any room with style and grace and leverage your strengths to lead powerfully. Discover the surprising research behind effective leadership and the counter-intuitive behaviours that will support your rise to the top.

You will develop:

Learn how to escape the 'too aggressive - not aggressive enough' dichotomy and embrace successful leadership styles that drive results
Identify the essential steps for attraction and retention of great talent and gaining discretionary effort from all
Uncover the keys to managing difficult people
Discover how to command attention and respect in every meeting
Understand the broader context for women in business and build and leverage networks to play strategically

This workshop is suitable for:

Professional women who want to step up their leadership capabilities and super-charge their career trajectory.
Small to medium enterprise and start-up CEOs who want to use their leadership to do great business.

Mentorship curriculum

Module 1: Mapping the leadership landscape - your career in context

People, performance and profit - why so many women are going out on their own and why big business is now seeking to promote women
The neuroscience of unconscious bias
Micro-affinities and micro-aggressions - stop ignoring the subtle cues that make or break emerging leaders

Module 2: Identify and leverage leadership 'superpowers'

The science behind a strengths based approach to your career development
Identifying and articulating your strengths
Participants will be given access to an engaging, online self-discover module two weeks before the workshop day. This interactive, online component enriches understanding of self and enables immediate application of the strengths framework on the workshop day
Be yourself - everyone else is already taken!

Module 3: The high achieving leader

How to think like a high-flyer
Chasing the goals that matter
Using basic skills to negotiate your trajectory

Module 4: Innovation leadership

Surviving and thriving in an era of rapid, discontinuous disruption
How to enact distributed and relational leadership styles to promote innovation
Navigating hard-to-predict futures

Module 5: Treading the ‘respected vs. liked’ tightrope

Stepping up – how to manage staff who were your peers
Creating psychologically safe workplaces
Inclusive leadership

Module 6 – Tough love: how to attract and retain high performers

Conversations that count
Super-charge the brains around yo
How to do this with anyone – staff, your boss, key clients and other stakeholders

Conclusion:

Bringing it all together into a strategic plan for your leadership trajectory.

Mentorship logistics

This one-day workshop is limited to twelve participants, enabling Isabelle to facilitate one-on-one and group feedback as you develop your unique leadership trajectory. This course is interactive and involves doing the work to set up your strategic plan on the day. Participants need to bring a laptop computer. The workshop is held in an awesome large boardroom in the CBD and runs from 9:00 am– 5.00 pm with short breaks. Lunch and morning tea is provided.