Women Empowerment and Leadership
Leadership built on strengths, not fixed weaknesses — performance leadership, conflict management and the confidence to claim the career the research says women are denied.
Format
Classroom · Virtual
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Gallup’s international studies point to a specific pattern limiting women’s career progression: development that focuses on fixing weaknesses instead of building on strengths. This workshop is designed around the areas women report finding most challenging — and which are key requirements for success in the 21st century. The cohort works through achieving success in business — overcoming negative perceptions and self-doubt, and setting a leadership journey with focus and determination; leading and motivating a team to maximum performance across meetings, teams and projects; and effective conflict management — the capability to deal with adverse conversations, reverse them, and come out on top with confidence and grace.
What you will do
Who attends
- Senior leaders across departments and industries
- Business owners who must be at the top of their game at all times
- Middle-management professionals with their eye on the top job
- Directors, managers, team leaders and HR professionals
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The strengths case
- What the Gallup research says about women’s career progression
- Strengths-based development versus weakness-fixing
- Overcoming negative perceptions and self-doubt
II.Leading for performance
- Leading and motivating a team to maximum performance
- Performance management across meetings, teams and projects
- Adapting the skill set to any level of business
III.Conflict and confidence
- Dealing with adverse conversations
- Reversing them — and coming out on top
- Confidence and grace under pressure
Frequently asked
What research underpins the women empowerment and leadership workshop?
Gallup’s international studies point to a specific pattern limiting women’s career progression: development that focuses on fixing weaknesses instead of building on strengths. The workshop is designed around that finding — and around the areas women report finding most challenging, which are key requirements for success in the 21st century.
What leadership capabilities does the workshop build?
Three strands: achieving success in business — overcoming negative perceptions and self-doubt and setting a leadership journey with focus and determination; leading and motivating a team to maximum performance across meetings, teams and projects; and effective conflict management — dealing with adverse conversations, reversing them, and coming out on top with confidence and grace.
Who should attend, and can it run in-house for our organisation?
Senior leaders across departments and industries, business owners, middle-management professionals with their eye on the top job, and directors, managers, team leaders and HR professionals. BIZENIUS delivers the workshop in English and French, with in-house editions tailored to your organisation; sessions run on a rolling calendar with dates confirmed on request, and fees and quotations on enquiry.
Who teaches this
Practitioners, not presenters.
Led by people who have held the seat, or advised those who do: former and serving chief officers, board members and committee chairs, and senior consultants who have sat beside executive committees through transformations, successions and crises. They teach from decisions they carried, in rooms kept small enough for the cohort’s own situations to be worked.
What the bench brings
- Leading, motivating and managing teams
- Change management and cultural change
- Performance management and employee engagement
- Conflict management and negotiation
- Coaching and succession planning
- Emotionally intelligent, strengths-based leadership
Where they have practised
Practitioners who hold the seat today.
Sectors: Professional services · Manufacturing & industry
Regions: Africa · the Middle East · Europe · Asia · the Americas
How they teach
- Role plays and filmed practice with senior feedback
- Case work from executive and board situations
- Peer coaching and structured group discussion
- Self-assessment instruments and reflection
- A personal leadership action plan
Cohorts are kept small so every exercise is worked on the participants’ own situations — in person or live virtual.
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