About
Strategically Influencing Across Your Organisation is designed for women who wish to strengthen their interpersonal and communication skills in order to become a more inspirational leader. It will provide you with the knowledge and skills that you need to become a powerful and positive source of influence within your organisation.
Key Learning Objectives
- Improve your effectiveness as a woman leader throughout your organisation
- Develop greater self-confidence and self-awareness as a leader
- Develop a different mindset to find solutions that work for everyone
- Break down the silos
- Learn how to promote yourself effectively without damaging your reputation
- Develop high-performing teams
- Develop your own strategy for success within your organisation
What will you gain from attending?
- Learn how to influence effectively across the organisation
- Learn how great leaders break down the silos that often exist within organisations
- Discover some powerful communication tools to enable you to operate more effectively
- Develop a reputation as a solution finder
- Identify and remove obstacles to outstanding performance
- Develop high-performing teams
- Develop greater self-confidence and self-awareness as a leader
- Before the day is out, you will also have crafted your own action plan and thought about strategies to ensure that you put that plan into action.
Who should attend?
This two-day seminar has been designed for women from all industries, sectors and organisation types who aspire to, or are already in leadership positions and want to tap into their full potential and achieve more than they have in the past.
Training methodology
This intensive 2-day seminar will combine tutorial sessions and case studies with interactive learning exercises. We use the principles of adult learning and draw upon a variety of modalities to create a powerful, stimulating environment for the participants, including:
- Socratic interaction
- Small and large group work
- Presentation of models and theory
- Individual reflection and journaling
- Ice breakers and similar energizers
All attendees will be provided with a workbook and a certificate of completion.
Agenda
Day One
BE AT YOUR BEST: THE FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF A SUCCESSFUL LEADER
- What’s the difference between a leader and a manager?
- What are the qualities of great leaders?
- Set yourself up for achievement and success
- The importance and relevance of coaching and mentoring for you.
- Understanding the ‘Imposter Syndrome’ and how that may be affecting you
- Manage your self-sabotaging behaviours and habits
- Use your unique skills and talents to create success for yourself and others
- Enhance your performance by learning to embrace uncertainty
- Be calm and confident in difficult situations
- Develop creativity by using your curiosity
CREATE STRONG RELATIONSHIPS USING SIMPLE TOOLS
- The importance of first impressions
- Be assertive because you are confident
- Communicate effectively, even with difficult people
- Create productive relationships where each individual is engaged and contributes their best to the outcome
- Get results by giving powerful feedback in a productive and positive manner
- Support others to be their best
INCREASE YOUR INFLUENCE
- Understand and leverage your personal power base
- Develop your credibility
- Motivate and inspire the people you lead, and even those you don’t
- Get support for your ideas from others
- Move from positional thinking to finding workable solutions to problems, that meet everyone’s needs
- Move disagreeable people to agreeable outcomes
CONFRONT CONFLICT WITH CONFIDENCE
- Overcome the fear of conflict
- Remain calm in confrontational situations
- Demystify and de-power other’s discontent
- Find win-win solutions, even in sticky situations
- Steps to successfully managing conflict
Day Two
WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER
- How do you achieve more with less?
- Spend time to make time
- Reduce your stress and increase your energy each day
- Learn to enjoy letting go and to let go with confidence.
MAKE CHANGE MANAGEABLE
- Overcome the challenge of change
- Understand the journey to change for individuals, teams and organisations so you can lead the way
- Promote progress by being prepared for the pitfalls of change
- Strategically align your systems to support success
- Enhance your ability to manage unexpected and unwanted change
CREATE THE SYNERGY THAT BRINGS SUCCESS
- Create a high performing team
- Break down organisational silos
UNLEASH YOUR LEADERSHIP CAPACITY
- Commit to positive change so you don’t suffer the alternatives
- Develop structures to support your success
- Prepare for your future
- Ensure your promote-ability
Facilitator
Yvonne McLean, B A Hons (Oxon), ACC (ICF), Associate Accredited Coach, The International Coach Federation
Yvonne is passionate about business culture, people and bringing out the best in people as they realise their true potential for themselves and for their organisations.
An Oxford University graduate, she was a lawyer in the UK and in New Zealand, for a career spanning some 20 years. The last seven and a half years of her legal career were spent as a Senior Executive within the UK Subsidiary of the Microsoft Corporation, working as the lead lawyer for the subsidiary and as a member of the Executive management team.
Yvonne is currently an Associate Accredited Coach with the coaching profession’s leading professional body, The International Coach Federation. Yvonne has been on the Leadership team of the ICFA (International Coach Federation Australasia) Auckland Sub-Chapter since 2007 and is currently President Elect of the Sub-Chapter. She is the 2010 Leader of the Auckland Local Area Group and Area Leader for the Northern Region of New Zealand for the ICFA.
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