Women in Management
What is this course about?
To address the gender specific challenges that many women face in leaderships roles. 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.
Key content covered
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
You benefit from our experience
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.
Run Women in Management for your team
Every workshop we publish is also delivered in-house — at your premises anywhere in South Africa and beyond, at one of our venues, or live online. Before we deliver, our course designers can adapt Women in Management to your team: your industry’s examples in the case work, your real challenges in the exercises, your operational rhythm in the schedule. We meet you, agree the outline together, and only then do you place the order.
In-house rates drop per delegate as the group grows — for larger teams it is usually the more affordable option as well as the better-fitting one.