Women Leading in Local Government

Program Modules

• Character matters

  Module 1: Authentically you

  • Self-awareness
  • Values clarity
  • Strengths identification

  Understanding authenticity – and what it means, why authenticity matters as a leader, and where and how to access the inner-strength to establish an authentic self.

  Outcome
  Greater self-awareness, values clarity and strengths identification, and permission to be their authentic selves.

  Module 2: Resilient you

  • Self-management
  • Resilience
  • Stress management
  • Personal power

  Understanding what it means to be resilient, how to build and maintain inner strength, how to recognise and mitigate the de-railers, and why personal agility matters.

  Outcome
  Greater self-management, personal power, resilience, and ability to transition to and/or lead change.

• Capability matters

  Module 3: Effective you

  • Social and emotional intelligence
  • Emotional self- awareness
  • Intentional leadership

  Understanding what Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is, why EQ matters in leadership, introduced to social and emotional intelligence framework; to increase emotional self-awareness and self-management.

  Outcome
  Greater appreciation for the importance of EQ competence for individual success and leadership effectiveness.

• Courage matters

  Module 4: Courageous you

  • Self-confidence
  • Congruence matters
  • Influential leadership

  Understanding that leadership is an inside-out process; taking increased clarity on strengths and EQ competence to next level – to courageously showcase the ‘real you’ as a key person of congruency and influence.

  Outcome
  Greater levels of self-confidence and courage to stand in the arena, ready to leave their mark – unapologetically.

  Interactive workshop 1            

  Building Your Individual Presentation Quotient (IPQ)

  Outcome
  Participants will not only learn more about how to present their best version to the world, they will be given permission to showcase their brilliant, full-version selves.

• Commitment matters

  Module 5: Compassionate you

  • Situational awareness
  • Servant leadership
  • Women-wise leadership

  Understanding that leadership is not about position and power; the importance of situational awareness, recognise impacts on others, and the servant leadership role of improving the community for greater-good, short and long-term outcomes.

  Outcome
  Greater appreciation for women-wise traits of compassion and deeper consideration of feelings and impacts.

• Connection matters

  Module 6: Conciliatory you

  • Negotiation
  • Managing conflict
  • Challenging the status-quo

  Understanding that negotiating is problem solving, exploring different ways to negotiate and manage conflict, challenging the status quo; with goal to drive positive change.

  Outcome
  Greater confidence to problem solve, negotiate outcomes, manage conflict, and address unacceptable status-quo.

  Interactive workshop 2            

  Recognise, respond and rectify gender bias

  Outcome: Participants will acknowledge that silence is assumed acceptance of biased behaviours, and commit to speak up when they see or hear gender bias actions; knowing that collectively women can lead positive change.

  Module 7: Collaborative you

  • Behaviour types
  • Effective communication
  • Purposeful networking

  Understanding and easily identifying the four core behaviour types, communicating more effectively with ‘different’ people, purposeful networking, and building a personal ‘A team’.

  Outcome
  Greater engagement capability, willingness to form collaborative relationships and develop support structures.

• Social and Emotional Intelligence Profile (SEIP)

  The SEIP is the most comprehensive, globally renowned assessment profiling social and emotional intelligence framework, developed by the Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence, an international learning and research organisation.

  It identifies with pinpoint accuracy, the individual’s strengths and weaknesses in 26 crucial competencies, grouped into four key skill sets:

  • self-awareness
  • self-management
  • situational awareness
  • relationship building.

  Participants will be provided with an individualised, comprehensive report and armed with these insights, participants can immediately begin to build on their strongest competence areas to showcase those leadership strengths, and work on the most critical areas, supported by our professional coaching sessions.