Enhance your leadership abilities and overcome challenges in today's competitive business world with this hands-on training seminar designed specifically for women. Gain the skills and strategies needed to advance your career and build a strong network of support. Take a more strategic approach to your professional development and position yourself for success.
Location: Midtown, Manhattan
1601 Broadway 6th Floor
Btwn W 48th & W 49th Streets
New York, New York 10019
What you'll learn in this leadership training:
Enhance your leadership abilities with this hands-on training seminar. Designed for women looking to advance their careers in today’s workforce.
Who Should Attend:
Female business professionals who are looking to move forward in their organizations by developing the best possible leadership style to fit the positions they want.
This hands-on leadership course shows women how to strategically use their strengths and abilities—your competitive edge—while mastering your emotions in even the most unwelcoming atmosphere. You’ll learn how to build a network of support, take smart risks, and view competition in a more positive light. Discover how to conduct yourself in a manner that earns you respect, and pursue your goals with positive energy. Return to your job feeling confident, ready to compete fearlessly, and in a better position to be recognized for your true capabilities.
How you will benefit:
- Overcome overt and hidden biases against women as leaders
- Adopt a competitive mindset that leverages your strengths as a woman
- Build a wide and strategic network of key stakeholders who will promote your career
- Avoid taking a perfectionist approach to competitive and challenging situations
- Recover from losses quickly by learning to take things less personally
- Learn to deal with hypercompetitive colleagues with whom you have low trust
What you will cover:
- Becoming a more confident, assertive woman in a competitive, male-dominated world
- Getting out of your comfort zone and developing a more resilient mindset
- Gaining a competitive advantage by taking smart career risks
- Initiating and forming friendly competitor and challenger relationships
- Expanding your strategic network in a virtual world
- Learning how to collaborate with people you don’t like
Course Outline:
Learning Objectives
- Describe Collaborative Competition and How to Apply This Mindset to Lead with Confidence
- Identify Opportunities to Take Smart Risks for Increased Competitive Advantage
- Explain the Advantages of Pacing Partners to Become More Organizationally Savvy, Build a Strategic Network, and Expand Your Visibility
Developing a Collaborative Competition Mindset
- Distinguish Between Male and Female Views of Competition
- Explain How Perfectionism Inhibits Competition
- Describe How Female Qualities Can Be an Asset in Leadership
- Define a Collaborative Competition Mindset
Defining a Smart Risk-Taking and Resilience Brand
- Describe Why Smart Career Risk Taking Is Critical for Your Brand
- Explain the Importance of Having a Resilient Mindset
- Describe the Four Performance Zones: Blah, Comfort, Stretch, and Yikes
- Explain the Purpose of Getting Comfortable in the Stretch Zone
- Identify a Practical Approach to Taking Smart Risks
Acting with Organizational Savvy
- Apply Strategies to Create a Savvy Organizational Role
- Describe Methods to Overcome Negative Labels That Can Limit Leadership
- Identify and Use “Organizational Savvy” Strategic Tactics to Promote Leader Brand
Build a Strategic Network
- Identify the Reasons Why a Strong Strategic Leadership Network Is Important
- Create an Action Plan to Develop an Ideal Leadership Network
Collaborating with Hypercompetitive Colleagues
- Distinguish Between Different Types of Hypercompetitive Colleagues
- Explain the Beliefs of Having Competent Yet Unlikeable Colleagues or Those with Whom You Have Low Trust
- Describe Strategies and Tactics for Dealing with Challenging Colleagues
Building Relationships with Pacing Partners
- Define the Four Levels of Pacing Partners
- Describe How to Form Friendly Competitors and Challengers and Overcome Common Pitfalls
- Build Pacing Partner Relationships