Women in Leadership Development Programme - CMI Level 7 Award
COURSE OVERVIEW
This exciting and interactive three-day programme has been designed with women leaders in mind. It combines high-quality teaching content, built on years of experience, with interactive and highly practical sessions, where the delegates will have an opportunity to put their new skills into practice. The content will also feature interviews with inspirational women, who will share their experiences and provide useful advice on how to navigate modern workplaces and build a rewarding career.
Following two intense days in the classroom, delegates will spend 6 weeks reflecting, allowing them the opportunity to experience their everyday situations via a lens of the knowledge developed on the first two days. They will be guided during that time by a carefully designed journal, provided to them at the beginning of the programme, allowing them the opportunity to start thinking of their personal development plan.
Delegates will then spend one final day 6 weeks later via a virtual classroom, to share reflections and experiences, hear from a live speaker and fully prepare for the journey they will be undertaking following the completion of the taught course with the CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice
At a glance
Module One - Who am I as a leader?
- Understand your leadership style
- Focus on your strengths
- How you see yourself v how others see you
- What is Leadership?
Module Two - Context for Leadership and women and work
Highly Interactive session
- Evolution of Leadership practice
- Women in leadership and women in work – the influence history has on women in today’s workplace
- The future of work – what next
- Leading In the digital area
- Inclusion Is key
Module Three - Power and Influence.
- Types of power and knowing your own power.
- Your sphere of influence
- Framework for a difficult conversation
- Interactive session - practice of difficult conversation
Module Four - Asking for what you want
Highly Interactive session
- Framework for negotiation
- Discussion of the gender pay gap
Module Five - The Power of Networking
- Networking and mentoring
- Setting yourself up to succeed by creating a strategic and powerful network
- Consider the difference between coaching and mentoring and identify people
Module Six - Leading Change
- Highly interactive session
- Creating a compelling vision for change
- Communicating with influence and overcoming resistance
Module Seven -
- Develop a career and development plan
- Overcoming obstacles
- Planning the first step
- Hear from a leading Business Woman – live.
- Action learning sets to explore progress with development plans
- Commitment to action
Module Eight -
- An introduction to the CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice
By the end of the course delegates will:
- Understand the context for their Leadership and in particular for women at work.
- Have an appreciation of their preferred Leadership Style and be confident of their strengths and how to play to them.
- Be aware of the power dynamics at play in their workplace and how to navigate the politics of organisation life by being aware of their sphere of influence and how to use it well.
- Have a tool kit for framing difficult conversations at work and know-how to, having practised using it.
- Be aware of how to obtain your goal by asking for what you want. Delegates will have an opportunity to practice negotiation and have a framework to assist.
- Identify how to make their network work for them in support of their career goals.
- Understand the role of a leader in change. Explore the importance of vision, communication and engagement in change and be able to describe techniques for overcoming resistance to change.
- Develop a career and development goal aligned to achieving their goals. It is not enough to have a plan – we will also provide time to work out how to take the first step and make it happen by identifying support, identifying ways to remove barriers to action and planning in detail that first step.
Anne McCarthy
HR Director – Change Leaders – Non-Executive Director
Anne is a successful leader of change and is a passionate believer in setting people up to succeed. In her Royal Mail Career, Anne has worked with the CEO and her team to deliver transformational change.
This included:
- Designing and leading the people strategy to underpin Delivery Transformation focused on organisation design, learning and engagement touching 100,00 people.
- Leading Organisation Design for the HR Function.
- Changing the way Learning and Development were practised in the organisation.
- Designing and implementing a talent review for the top 200 operations leaders.
- Leading a £360m negotiation to reform operations in London.
Anne brings good energy to her work. She is renowned for understanding the business proposition first and applying HR practice to it. She stays up to date with current thinking and her trademark is to translate even the most complex change into simple communication to which people can relate.
A non-exec director, interim HR Director and Prince’s Trust mentor, Anne is now sharing her expertise across a broad range of business and not-for-profit organisations.
On-campus Training
Salford Professional Development training facilities is located in Greater Manchester, just outside the city centre on The University of Salford campus at Adelphi House.
If you prefer face-to-face learning methods, receive personal one-to-one support from expert tutors and enjoy networking with like-minded professionals, our on-campus training cohorts may be the best option for you.
Online Classroom
This programme offers virtual classroom learning dates to best suit those who have busy work/life schedule, are located outside of the United Kingdom or outside of the Northwest of the UK area and prefer online learning methods and networking.