Authentic Leadership for Women: elevating the performance and wellbeing of the leader and their team
This is a life-changing program of discovery and change, empowering female leaders (and aspiring leaders) to create positive impact for themselves and others through leading with authenticity, vibrancy and confidence.
Why is this program valuable to organisations?
Today’s organisations are committed to gender diversity and inclusion. Success depends on being able to develop career pathways for women, being able to retain strong female leaders in their roles, developing a strong female talent pipeline and having positive leadership female role models in the organisation.
Some of the challenges female leaders and those aspiring to leadership face are:
Women often lack confidence in leadership. Compared with men, women speak up less, don’t consider themselves as ready for promotions, often underestimate their abilities and engage in self-doubt more regularly
Women experience more challenges to their resilience than men and often experience burn-out
When male dominated leadership in organisations is the norm, women can perceive their gender as a negative. This can lead to adopted, forced or unnatural modes of behaviour, undermining their effectiveness, authenticity and enjoyment of their roles
Women often forge non-linear career paths due to career breaks. They may then experience a flat-lining of their careers. Once back at work, they also often manage ongoing caring responsibilities and can find this a very challenging juggle, threatening their performance, wellbeing and career development
These challenges can lead women to get “stuck” in their careers, or prevent them from embracing new opportunities. However, women are uniquely well placed to lead, as organisations transition from more “command and control” styles of leadership to collaborative, affiliative and empowering styles. Organisations therefore need to support women to embrace their feminine authentic traits, strengths, abilities, leadership and humanity into their roles, and be valued for them.
“Being authentic at work fuels self-confidence, elevates performance and improves the wellbeing of the leader and that of their team”
Our promise
This program inspires, enables and empowers female leaders to build their inner confidence. When leaders can bring their authentic, best selves to work every day, pursue personally meaningful goals and use their unique strengths and talents, performance lifts and success is sustained. In this way, leaders will effectively influence positive change as they role-model their authentic selves to create a ripple effect for those around them, and inspire their teams to better performance.
Using the best of the evidence, interventions and tools from positive psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science, we work with your female leaders or future leaders to:
Build confidence and executive presence
Communicating and influencing for cut-through and impact, building important relationships and “managing up” in organisations effectively. Challenging self-doubt and building self-compassion.
Embrace opportunities
for learning, development and growth. Encouraging a growth mindset to facilitate career planning and development.
Be the best leader they can be
Discovering and leveraging their authentic leadership style; developing their unique strengths and embracing their feminine traits (where relevant) that will underpin their success and performance.
Feel good and function well every day at work
Proactively managing their wellbeing consistently improves vibrancy, optimises performance and helps leaders to support others.
Understand their worth and purpose
Identifying and articulating their value proposition; that is, what they do, the value they create and why they are relevant. Developing personally meaningful and motivating goals to deliver sustained performance.
build resilience
the ability to flourish despite stress and pressure, and the mental agility to cope with challenge and change at work and in life.
How is this program delivered?
Like any program, the best one for your organisation is one that is tailored to your needs, that uses your company language, that supports your company culture and values. We’d love to talk with you to customise a program format that best complements your organisation’s strategy
We’ve found, and research shows, that the gold standard for making lasting change is one-on-one coaching. However we understand organisations often want to reach a broader audience with their available budget or even “dip their toe” in the water with a “taster” of what we offer.
Authentic Leadership for Women: sustaining high performance and wellbeing has been developed to be delivered in various modalities, either stand-alone or combined together for more powerful and long-lasting impact.
Coaching
Individualised, scaffolded awareness, interventions and support
The gold standard for embedding lasting change
Effective to sustain change post-workshops
Workshops
Boardroom-style or groups of tables
Interactive, reflective sessions with individualised, outcome-based activities
Flexible format - breakfasts, lunch'n learn, half day, full day
seminars
Broaden knowledge, understand the applications
Experience a “taster” of what we offer with a view to adopting a more in-depth program
Reach a broader audience with your budget
Client feedback and research findings supporting this program
“I’ve been able to clearly translate my career vision into workable goals. The coaching has given me more confidence to accept my way of working and personal style that can be compatible with my leadership objectives. During this process my coach was positive, supportive, empathetic and engaging.”
“What the world is seeking from leaders today is changing; feminine traits such as collaboration, empathy are on the rise, positioning women well to be effective leaders.”
“50% of female leaders admit to feelings of self-doubt versus 31% of male leaders”
“Representation of women at senior levels is growing slowly at best. Only 17-25% female representation”
”Women need higher resilience to counter traditional obstacles at work”
