Leading with Insight – Women in Management
(moving beyond a standard management course)
“A really good well rounded programme with both theory, practical and networking.”
“I thought it was a very well organised course with tutors who gave 100%. Thank you very much.”
Autumn 2008 Programme
Cost for 2 month programme – superb value at £750 + VAT
Tuesday 7th October 2008 SEE, Winchester
Thursday 23rd October 2008 Surrey University, Guildford
Thursday 13th November 2008 SEE, Winchester
Thursday 27th November 2008 Surrey University, Guildford
All sessions 10 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. Feedback sessions in your own workplace.
Please contact Leah Winter for a nomination form.
What’s stopping you from going for, or getting that promotion?
- Uncertainties about your abilities and skills?
- Self limiting thoughts/beliefs?
- Concerns about your work/life balance?
Perhaps your circumstances have changed and you are now ready to realise your potential or have been in a managerial role for a while and feel stuck. It’s time to stop in your tracks, take an objective look at you and your world and select your career and life pathway.
The public sector has displayed some best practice with the equality agenda. Twenty years ago only 5% of MPs were women compared with 18% today. Almost a quarter of the civil service top management are now women. However, sex equality is far from sorted.
Target audience
Female managers in middle and senior positions. Our mixed groups in terms of job roles and seniority have worked very well with previous programmes. Please be assured that you will ‘fit’ well.
Benefits of attending the programme
You will gain real insight into your strengths, skills and abilities as well as your work style preferences through the use of a range of psychometric instruments in a supportive environment. You will build a greater understanding of the factors that currently limit you and will have the opportunity, to receive one-to-one feedback. Combine this with course input and access to professional networking and mentoring opportunities and you will be ready to take a leap beyond your current expectations. We will also invite a guest speaker (role model) to the last session.
Programme outline
Experience the blend of:
- Structured input and time for reflection on key issues such as managing your work and your life, political and influencing skills, empowering/limiting beliefs and impression management.
- Individual assessment and feedback from 2 qualified experts covering a whole range of abilities and behaviours – ultimately focused on the managerial role.
- Professional networking with like minded women.
- Hearing from successful female managers (potential role models).
Programme outcomes
- To gain insight into your management style and learn how to manage others more effectively.
- To be able to manage yourself more effectively e.g. workload, presentation, communication.
- To change how you feel e.g. increase confidence, feel more in control, less reactive.
- To gain the necessary skills and practise effective networking.
How it works:
- structured input and time for reflection on key issues such as managing your work and your life, political and influencing skills, empowering/limiting beliefs and impression management
- individual assessment and feedback from 2 qualified experts covering a whole range of abilities and behaviours – ultimately focused on the managerial role
- professional networking with like minded women
- hearing from a successful female manager (potential role model).
Pre-course activity
Prior to commencing the programme you will complete an online Occupational Personality Questionnaire supplied and administered by SHL. The completed questionnaire will be sent securely to Jackie Shefferd at SEE and feedback will be provided by her to each individual between Sessions 1 & 2.
Session 1
Meet and greet tutors and participants, share expectations and complete verbal and numerical analysis tests as well as a management scenarios test. You will be asked to complete an Occupational Personality Questionnaire on-line (completely secure and confidential) in advance of this day. At Session 1 you will also receive guidelines for completing the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
A one-to-one feedback session will be arranged in your own workplace to discuss the results of the personality profile.
Session 2
Areas covered will include networking strategies, the Well Formed Outcome Model, some “instant stress relieving” techniques, initial work on impression management and preparatory work on influencing skills.
A one-to-one feedback session [held at SEE] will be arranged to discuss the results of the MBTI.
Session 3
To include political/influencing skills, attitudes to power, working with different operational styles, rapport skills and completion of “Brainstorm”, a product which assesses your creative thinking.
Session 4
Rounding off with principles for effective communication, empowering and limiting beliefs, ‘role-model’ input and action planning including strategies for maintaining momentum.
Facilitators
A strong partnership between Jackie Shefferd and Sarah Morgan.
Jackie has extensive experience in training, coaching and psychometric assessment and is fully qualified in all aspects of what she does. Her enthusiasm and ‘can-do’ approach energises others. She is proud of her own achievements with her work-life balance as she maintains her professional role and enjoys her role as a mother of two young children.
Sarah is an active associate consultant with SEE. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and has a first class reputation as an inspiring facilitator. She balances her career in training and development with her work as a musician.
Should you wish to discuss this further please contact Jackie Shefferd on 01962 840664 or 07887 982603 or jackie@seemp.co.uk.