Professional Development Series Women in Leadership

Designed to understand the challenges women leaders face and the techniques to overcome them.

Women In Leadership: WILLeadership Practices & Commitments

Based on nearly 30 years of research and now in its sixth edition, The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner remains an essential book for understanding what it takes to be an exemplary leader whether you work in a small business, for a large corporation with an international presence or somewhere in between. This initial session of our Women in Leadership series for women focuses on the five practices and ten commitments they believe to be the essence of successful leadership.

February 27 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

Organizational Culture and Your Leadership Style

Simply put, organizational culture is a shared set of values, assumptions, and behaviors that dictate how individuals behave in an organization. In this Women in Leadership session, we will look at the relationship between organizational culture and various leadership styles including situational leadership, servant leadership, and transformational leadership.

March 6 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is perceived by many to be the single most important characteristic for successful leadership. Learn about emotional intelligence, the current trends in research related to emotional intelligence, and how you can improve your own EQ in this session of the Women in Leadership series.

March 13 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

Take Individual classes or the entire series!

Women face different challenges in the workplace than men do, and new skills are required to compete effectively. This 24-hour program will help you find your authentic voice and cultivate executive presence. By integrating evidence based research on effective leadership with lec-ture, reflective practice and experiential group work, this leadership development series will focus on those chal-lenges and provide skill development with the following modules:

• Leadership Practices & Commitments

• Organizational Culture and Your Leadership Style

• Emotional Intelligence

• Communicating with Impact

• Building Effective Teams

• Coaching for Performance

• Cultivating Executive Presence

• Bringing it All Together Panel

February 27 - April 24 on Tuesday evenings from 6:30pm-9:30pm at SCC Downtown Campus Full Series: $749

Communicating with Impact

Who gets heard in the workplace? Whether communicating with staff or managing up, this Women in Leadership session pro-vides both content and practice related to communication specific to women in the workplace. You will complete a self-assess-ment to determine your communication style and learn strategies for how you can improve the way you communicate and manage conflict.

March 20 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

Building Effective Teams

This Women in Leadership session will explore the new science behind building effective teams and learn strategies to promote trust and accountability among team members.

March 27 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

Coaching for Performance

Taking a cue from the sports industry, building a coaching culture and coaching for performance are fast becoming the ways to engage staff positively and to unlock your staff’s potential by helping in-dividuals learn versus directing or teaching them. This Women in Leadership session provides hands on practice to assist you in growing people, performance and pur-pose in your organization.

April 10 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

Cultivating Executive Presence

Executive presence is considered one of the top four abilities needed for successful leadership and for moving up the corpo-rate ladder. What is executive presence and what does it look like? How does one de-velop executive presence? This Women in Leadership session will look at the current research related to executive presence, how women can cultivate executive pres-ence and why it is important for women to develop their own signature style.

April 17 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

Bringing it All Together

The Women in Leadership series will conclude with a panel of leaders to discuss leadership specific to women, along with a question and answer session.

April 24 Tuesday 6:30pm-9:30pm $149

PO Box 4386 | Spartanburg SC 29305

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