Curriculum

This is a highly interactive program that uses a variety of methodologies, including:

  • Self-assessment of your communication and your team leadership styles
  • Exercises that reveal your own expectations and behaviors in teams and allow you to improve your team leadership style
  • Discussions of case studies to identify best practices for leading teams
  • Opportunity to receive feedback on resolving a personally challenging team situation

Learning Objectives

Day 1:   

  • Identifying and managing the additional challenges women leaders face, including establishing credibility and authority, and managing the perceptions of your team leadership

Day 2:   

  • Negotiating upfront for the conditions for successful team output
  • Assembling an optimally diverse team and managing that diversity
  • Recognizing the multiple sources of conflict and developing strategies for pre-empting and resolving conflicts

Day 3:   

  • Managing women-leading-women dynamics
  • Creating an action plan

Program Schedule

Day 1 

Registration

Program

12:15-1:00 p.m. 

1:00-9:00 p.m.

Day 2

Breakfast

Program

Dinner in Boston

7:30-8:30 a.m.

8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

5:00 p.m.

Day 3

Breakfast

Program

7:30-8:30 a.m.

8:30 a.m-12:30 p.m.

 

 

 


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