Key Takeaways:
- Understand how gender shapes leadership and leverage the female perspective
- How to diagnose situations to select appropriate individual leadership styles
- Successful negotiation tactics – learn how to leverage influence and achieve win-win agreements
- Tactics for building effective, supportive professional networks
- Tools to achieve balance and cultivate personal fulfillment
Methodology
The executive leadership course features faculty instruction as well as group breakout sessions.
Data Driven
The women’s executive leadership program is taught by world renowned UC Berkeley behavioral scientists. Faculty will share current research findings and demonstrate relevancy through examples and case studies.
Experiential
Participants will participate in multiple independent and group exercises throughout the program. Faculty and classroom peers will give personal feedback.
Skill Development
The executive program will allow participants to diagnose their current skills, develop an expanded leadership capacity, and learn how to distinguish between tactical & strategic considerations facing leaders today.
Highlighted Sessions
Power & Influence
Men and women experience power differently and therefore exercise it differently within their organizations. Participants will work with behavioral scientists on the role of emotional intelligence and its relationship to power and influence.
Gender & Negotiation
Leaders negotiate everyday with employees, business partners, and clients. Yet women, more than men, find the task of negotiating to be fraught with challenges. This session is designed to turn this perception on its head by providing a set of tools that will enhance your negotiating skill set. By sharing cutting-edge behavioral science research on the relation between gender and negotiating, participants will gain confidence in their ability to get to yes. In this highly interactive session, participants will review a case study that explores how gender affects negotiating as well as engage in a role play simulation of a business negotiation.
Additional Sessions
- Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership Styles
- Negotiation
- Social Networks
