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IE Business School
Executive Education
Opleiding: Global Leadership for Women
Learning purpose
The focus on diverse workforces in global organizations and the drive to establish executive teams that are more gender balanced across levels makes is more important than ever for leaders to broaden, strengthen and adapt their leadership skills. This program is geared toward women in leadership roles who are facing this new environment which requires honing existing skills, identifying new capabilities around motivating diverse multicultural, gender balanced teams, driving change, and communicating with confidence. Fundamental to this is developing a strong set of personal and authentic leadership values in order to succeed in this evolving business environment.
What are the opportunities associated with diverse workforce and how can female executives take advantage of them? Women leading a diverse workforce with high degrees of responsibility need to move away from the traditional face-to-face and direct supervision to alternative forms of motivation based on followers ‘need for flexibility, identity and excellence. When it comes to global leadership it is not the formal structure that makes a difference, it is the leader who is in direct contact with the people, the teams that make up the organizaiton.
This three day Global Leadership for Women Program will help talented female executives like you lead change, develop and enhance core skills, gain confidence and a greater understanding of leadership communications and personal self awareness around who you stand for as a leader. The program will support you in your quest to empower others to adapt successfully to the changing environment – the program will challenge you to grow through reflection, sharing and experiential learning during the 3 days as well as an opportunity to engage in an ongoing mentoring and accountability program following.
Target audience
This Global Leadership for Women program is designed for women business leaders at public and private companies, including senior corporate officers, executive business-unit leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs. Particularly targeted at, but not limited to:
Programme
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
- Facilitate the exploration of your personal leadership behavior and identify opportunities for career and personal development.
- Share analytical tools and frameworks to support you in your systematic thinking around leadership at different stages of an organizational pipeline.
- Further develop your communication skills in challenging situations and negotiations so that you can maximize your effectiveness as a leader of your own career and as a leader of a diverse workforce.
- Increase your awareness of the need for flexible leadership needed to manage successfully in a global, highly competitive and changing business environment.
- Acquire greater confidence and understanding of your personal leadership styles, enabling you to lead effectively, responsibly and authentically through various transformations.
- Strengthen your sensitivity in connecting with your direct reports and teams so they are fully engaged and thus excel to their greatest potential.
PROGRAM CONTENT
Responsible Leadership for Leading Organizational Change in a Global Business
- Challenges and opportunities of female executives leading strategic transformations.
- Emotional engagement: Articulating a vision that is meaningful and emotionally uplifting (for self and others).
Personal Leadership
- Learning about your preferred and ideal path to success.
- Identifying your leadership resources and developing an action plan.
- How to acquire and build on feedback so that it effectively boosts your leadership capabilities.
- Leverage your leadership resources for personal career and business growth.
Sustainable Success and Social Well-Being
- What is success? The myth of having it all
- Achieving work-life balance while building social capital in stages
- Organizational responsiveness to work-family issues
- Creating competitive advantage through flexibility and leadership adaptation
Emotional Leadership
- Emotional intelligence and emotional competence - Enhancing EQ and “right brain” perception
- Theory U – Open mind, open heart, open will
- Personal mastery - The habits and practices of highly creative people
- From I'llness to We'llness - Dealing with self-interest and greed
Leading Effectively and Responsibly in Complex 21st Century Organizations
- Progressing up the Leadership Pipeline – Key Skills, Values, Time Management across cultures.
- Leadership Communication – Difficult and courageous conversations that we all face daily.
- Adjusting your social capital according to career and personal choices, and stages.
Cultural Intelligence for Working Across Borders
- What is Culture?
- Personal attributes of a successful cross cultural manager.
- Introduction to cross culture tools such as WORLDPRISM™ to help leverage similarities and differences. .
- Creating competitive advantage across diverse, cross culture teams.

