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Women in Leadership.

The whole Women in Leadership topic in one Focus: identity and confidence, visibility and sponsorship, fair pay, navigating bias and leading as yourself for the long haul.

Level
Focus
Learning time
4 hours
Where
Women in Leadership
Price
£69

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About this course

Overview and Outcomes.

Who It's For

Women leaders at every level, and the colleagues who back them

Overview

This Focus brings together all seven modules of the Women in Leadership topic. It starts with leadership identity and why confidence is not competence, drawing on Ely, Ibarra and Kolb, the imposter phenomenon and Ellis's ABCDE model. It then explores visibility, non-promotable work, French and Raven's bases of power and amplification in the Obama White House, before setting out the difference between mentoring and sponsorship through Kram, Hewlett and the Xerox succession from Anne Mulcahy to Ursula Burns. Negotiation and pay follow, with BATNA, the BBC equal pay cases and the glass cliff. It closes with double binds and Crenshaw's intersectionality, Ibarra's authenticity paradox, Jacinda Ardern's resignation and fair sponsorship by design.

Aims

This programme aims to develop women who can name the systems that shape how they are judged and choose their response, build visibility and sponsorship on their own terms, negotiate well and lead sustainably, while helping organisations design fairer routes to the top.

In summary, you will be able to:

  1. Explain how second-generation bias, double binds and non-promotable work shape the way capable women are seen, judged and rewarded at work.
  2. Plan a personal board of mentors, sponsors and networks, and a well-evidenced approach to negotiating pay, progression and stretch roles.
  3. Design fair, open sponsorship and allyship practices that widen opportunity across difference, distinguishing lawful positive action from positive discrimination.

What you'll develop

Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:

  1. Apply Ellis's ABCDE model, alongside attention to context, to work with self-doubt in yourself and in the people you lead.
  2. Explain how non-promotable work and credit attribution create a visibility gap, and plan a strategic no or a fairer sharing of that work.
  3. Plan practical steps to earn sponsorship and to strengthen your operational, personal and strategic networks.
  4. Use BATNA, reservation price, ZOPA and relational framing to prepare and make a well-evidenced request.
  5. Choose a proportionate response to bias, in the moment or afterwards, using the five moves, the 5Ds and good allyship.
  6. Design a fair sponsorship scheme that is open and accountable, distinguishing lawful positive action from positive discrimination.
What is inside

Built from 4 parts.

4 hours of learning.

  1. 01Seen and heardLeadership identity, confidence and visibilityBitesize2 modules
  2. 02Sponsors and fair paySponsorship, networks, negotiation and payBitesize2 modules
  3. 03Your way, for the long runNavigating bias and sustainable leadershipBitesize2 modules
  4. 04Sponsorship by designFair sponsorship and men as alliesBitesize1 module
Where it fits

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