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Women in Management

To address the gender specific challenges that many women face in leaderships roles.

About the course

Whilst the theory of management remains the same for all, there are specific challenges faced more specifically by our female leaders, many of these can be overcome by providing simple tools to ensure that women can truly own a seat at the management table.

What it covers

What are the Requirements of Women at Work?

Identifying the specific requirements of women at work given the current statistics and analysis of the composition of the South African population.

What are the specific implications of these requirements when it comes to management and leadership roles.

Making the Transition to a Management Role

The psychology of making this transition in a South African context.

The likely obstacles to be faced.

The way to overcome these obstacles and truly own the position.

Finding the Balance

Who are your stakeholders in your career growth path?

Ensuring that you have suitable agreements in place allowing for a work life balance.

Building your capacity for resilience.

Mitigating the risks.

Developing the Skills that will ensure success

Critical Decision-Making Tools.

Assertiveness and Persuasion Tools (overcoming resistance).

Using the Eisenhower Time Matrix to prioritise.

Using delegation to empower.

Clarifying Authority levels

How we run it

At the end of this workshop the learners will have the basic tools and perspective to ensure that they have an equal opportunity to secure every potential leadership opportunity in the workplace.

Course outline (PDF)

Run it for your team

We can adapt Women in Management to your industry and your people’s real situations, and run it at your premises, at our venue or as a virtual workshop. We agree the outline with you before you order, and the rate per delegate drops as the group grows.