New: Women's Leadership: From the Inside Out ...
By Lorna McDowell, Tuesday 30 January, 2007
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
Building Collaborative Innovation from the Inside Out
2 Days: For High Potential Women who Want to Influence
Women have a wealth of natural attributes and values-led principles at their disposal, not least of which are integrity, creativity, inclusiveness, and the ability to multi-task and to nurture and grow. However, many have low self-confidence in a traditionally male-dominated business and fail to deliver themselves to their highest potential simply because they mask their authentic self - their most powerful asset.
Today’s changing business world now calls for a smarter approach to people – one where people’s hearts and minds are fully engaged and committed, where work has more meaning than simply a means to an end. According to recent research by CIPD in the UK, around half of employees reported a feeling of disengagement from their work. Imagine the effect on productivity and all-over well being if engagement was nearer to 100%? This is where women's leadership of the collaborative kind - which nurtures authenticity - can make a real difference in bringing about cultures of innovation and lateral thinking.
Above and beyond all the talk of emotional intelligence, this course provides an approach that explores what it really takes to bring emotional and social intelligence into the workspace and seed the routes of culture enhancement which can contribute to a more full engaged workforce. The approach is grounded in authenticity, building community and encouraging people across organizations – at ALL levels – to be more communicative, authentic and to feel safe and empowered being so. Women have natural strengths that enable such strategies to ignite and glow new rays of warmth, authenticity and excitement through corporate life.
The course also encompasses assessment and practical skills learning, benchmarked against international best practice, for enhancing influencing styles and confidence, enabling women to feel more powerful in conveying their messages in an engaging way.
Research proves that discussion and sharing increases women’s sense of well-being and can dramatically reduce stress and raise confidence. As such, the course tutor style engages participants in active discussion and discovery through personal reflection and group sharing, creating a sense of supportive community throughout and actively demonstrating community processes which can be modeled in workplace situations back at the ranch. Course tutors have a background in psychology as well as business in order to facilitate and model this process.
Course Objectives
To establish an understanding of how women can lead authentically “from the inside-out”
To present the agenda for collaboration and innovation in today's business environment and the role of women in nurturing culture change
To explore ways of influencing and communicating more impactfully, and gauge participants current baseline, benchmarked against international best practice amongst high potential people
To understand how women can naturally let themselves down sometimes through fear-based communications, or lack of communication
To determine how to raise the bar on strategic credibility of women in corporate life and how to add value in this space
To create a more powerful capability to inspire and motivate others and establish followship
To explore practical approaches for building formal and informal networks and influencing chains/communities for culture and strategy development
What’s included in the programme
- 360 degree assessment / Lore Survey of Influence Effectiveness: 60 page report and executive summary which analyses your communication style and provides recommendations for improvement, benchmarked against international best practice for high potential people
Leadership through Influence: a practical manual for applying and using various influencing skills in differing situations according to desired outcomes
Workplace values: a framework and team process for identifying how values may differ and how to bring teams closer together through connecting and appealing to values. This process enables us to make work and work relationships meaningful in the journey of human growth and challenge.
Develop your Personal Leadership Life strategy: personal life / career review and reflection time: an opportunity to explore your unique strengths and assets and frame them in your leadership style
How to give and receive feedback confidently, whatever the situation
How to become a legendary ‘storyteller’ in your company: relate information in an engaging way that truly inspires and engages audience interest
How to negotiate (with yourself and others) for work-life balance that works for you
Discover a new definition and meaning around the concept of ‘Power’: how we lose and give it away, and why it can be highly beneficial
Life the veil off ‘strategy’ and explore practical, authentic ways to add value at board level
Exploration of collaborative innovation processes
Set of 3 motivational and meditative CDs for personal growth /reflection in own time
Course Director: Lorna McDowell
Lorna brings a rare combination of experience in business leadership, marketing and psychology to facilitate business people on a journey to success through understanding how to use their minds for greater personal and professional success and rediscover their creative confidence. In addition to running Xenergie, she is a mother to four children, managing the proverbial work/life balance issues that working women do.
Prior to starting Xenergie, Lorna had an impressive international business career in corporate communications and marketing consultancy based in London and Paris. In 2000, she moved to the West of Ireland and retrained as a psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist (MIICH) and built Xenergie Consulting Ltd as an executive development specialist business, winning the Network Galway Businesswoman of the Year award in 2005.
Lorna is also a faculty member for Lore International Institute, global executive education in Colorado and Zurich. She has trained extensively in creative and community process and psychology studying the work of Julia Cameron, Edward de Bono, Tom Peters, Meredith Belbin, Carl Jung and the work of Milton Erickson, Don Perkins and Alberto Villoldo on altered states of awareness . Lorna regularly runs personal innovation retreats in the West of Ireland and travels the world delivering workshops on women's leadership, personal branding and authenticity.
This course will be running for two days during June 2007. To discuss a bespoke course or executive coaching based on this course for your company, please contact Lorna McDowell on +353 (0)91 782 826/ 091 635 583 or lorna.mcdowell@xenergie.com
