Online Training
Unlocking Potential – Emerging Women Leaders in Government
Take Action and Kick-Start your Leadership Journey
June 12 & 20, 2024
12:30 PM - 4:45 PM EST
Next intake: June 12 & 20, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 4:45 PM EST
Overview
Are you a public sector woman in a managerial position who is ready to unlock your leadership potential? While some of us are imbued with natural leadership abilities, governance potential exists within all of us. Unlocking Potential: Emerging Women Leaders in Government is specially designed for women in managerial roles who are eager to unlock their full potential and become a force to be reckoned with.
This training course will draw upon tried and tested techniques to equip you with the skills necessary to command respect, build trust, and inspire those around you. Specifically tailored to women who are looking to learn and enhance key management skills, this course is tailored to help you embrace key strategies for developing a strong leadership presence.
You will learn how to bring out the best in your people and lead from a position of firmness, fairness, and quiet strength; you will feel empowered, inspired, and ready to take on any leadership challenge that comes your way. Good leaders bring out the best in others because they know how to build trust, encourage confidence, and command respect. Great leaders inspire others to follow their initiatives, adapt their ideas, and perform above and beyond their capabilities regularly. What is it that makes a leader and what separates the good from the great? How can you become a more powerful, effective, and respected leader?
Who Should Attend?
This training course is for Women in managerial and leadership positions.Learning Outcomes
Online Training
Unlocking Potential – Emerging Women Leaders in Government
Session details
- Understand your workplace communication style
- Recognize your role as a coach and leader
- Bring out the best in your people through trust, confidence, and respect
Level: Fundamentals
No previous experience necessary
Key Sessions
This program teaches you how to effectively motivate and inspire your team, fostering a culture of firmness, fairness, and quiet strength, empowering you to tackle any leadership challenge.
What is a Leader?
• What does effective management look like?
• Understanding the power of Women in Leadership and what women bring to the leadership table
• Imposter Syndrome – stereotypes and mindsets that traditionally impede women in leadership the workplace and leadership positions
• Recognizing different leadership styles and the importance of professional branding
Professional Brand Activity – Who Am I as a Leader?
• How can you unlock, forge and showcase your leadership brand?
• Exploring the opportunities to leverage your brand and be a confident leader
Management and Leadership Skill Development
• Management and Leadership: the opportunities and potential pitfalls
• Understanding the key skills necessary to develop and focus inward and become a more effective manager/ leader
• Developing a pathway to hone leadership and managerial skills
Communicating with Confidence
• Identifying a personal communication style
• Recognizing how to flex and adapt to varying
communication styles
• Managing multiple communication styles and building
authentic relationships
Communication Styles Activity Session
• What is my communication style?
• Planning my next conversation
Communicating with Influence
• Strategic communication: influence, negotiation and gaining buy-in
• The importance of self-promotion
• How to be a mentor and advocate for your staff/team
Communicating Activity
• Adopting a personal communication strategy
Communicating and Coaching
• Knowing when to ‘manage’ and when to ‘coach’
• What skills do you need to coach and develop your staff?
• Learning how to improve relationships and build trust within your team
• Managing conflict through coaching
Feedback as a Leadership Tool
• What is feedback and why is it important?
• Overcoming valid excuses for giving and receiving feedback
• Getting to grips with how, when and why to give feedback
• Using feedback as a strategic tool to mitigates conflict and improves retention
Feedback Template Activity
• Feedback Template: an interactive session where attendees practice giving feedback in small groups
• Peer-to-peer feedback
Motivating your Teams and Aligning Goals to Action
• Exploring how to delegate more effectively and lead more strategically
• Understanding the importance of strategy in goal setting – how, where and why?
• Mindset over Matter – embedding self-care into your strategic leadership strategy
Meet Your Facilitator
Priya Sodha
Executive Trainer & DEI Professional
Priya Sodha, an Executive Trainer and DEI professional, has over 10 years of experience in facilitating transformational workshops and trainings for organizations. She specializes in leadership development, communication, diversity, equity and inclusion, and people-focused leadership.
Priya is the founder of The Empowered Managers Training Program, which offers a 6-month leadership program for early career managers. She holds a Masters in Organizational Change Management from The New School and a BA in Sociology from California State University of Long Beach.
Priya has served as Executive Director for the Youth Business Alliance and Director of Career Development at Calbright College. She is a Certified Professional Group Coach and holds a certificate in Effective Leadership from The Management Institute. Priya is also an active #IamRemarkable Facilitator, speaking on self-promotion for women in the workplace and presenting at The Women of Silicon Valley Conference on Communicating with Confidence.
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