Courses Leadership, Management & Strategy

Women Leading in Education

Step Up and Maximise Your Impact

Chaired by Nicola Lowit

Tuesday 30 November, 2021

09:25 - 16:15

Virtual

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Overview

Join exceptional women from across the education sector for high impact peer to peer learning.

Attend our Women Leading in Education course to create a personal vision of what it means to be a great leader and enhance your capabilities to meet this challenge. Define your values and career goals and develop your leadership style. Learn to react to opportunities and use practical tips to gain power and influence for stepping-up and progressing further.

Through discussion and practical exercises, identify strategies to lead with purpose and conviction. Establish techniques to set boundaries and remain true to your vision. Leave the day with an action plan to become a better leader, overcome barriers to success and propel towards greater performance.

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This course will be delivered via Zoom.

Nicola Lowit

Training Consultant

Nicola is an experienced Senior Civil Servant, trainer, facilitator, and mindfulness teacher. With a background in learning and development, she worked in the voluntary sector and for the Open University before joining Central Government as an Education Advisor to prisons in England and Wales. Since then, Nicola has worked in a number of high profile roles within the Prison Service and the Ministry of Justice, including leading negotiations with the Youth Justice Board for the provision of custodial places for young people; setting up and leading the first Cross-Departmental Strategy Unit for Women in the Criminal Justice system; and ...

Strengthen your confidence and personal insight
Create an environment where everybody can thrive
Develop your leadership style to improve your impact
Learn to generate buy-in and enhance your ability to obtain results
Establish an action-plan to develop you into the leader you want to be

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Agenda

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09:25 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:00

Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives

10:00 - 10:45

Women in Leadership: What Makes Great Leader?

Identify inspiring leaders and why they are thought so
Discuss the strategies of high achieving women versus men
Define potential barriers to development for women in leadership positions
Reflect on the relationship between effective leadership and performance in organisations

10:45 - 11:30

Leading with Authentic Purpose

Pinpoint leadership strengths, styles and aspirations
Mentoring and coaching women: what can you get from it
Investigate your impact and the qualities needed to improve it
Learn about vision and engagement as leaders’ two core activities

11:30 - 11:45

Morning Break

11:45 - 12:30

Stepping Up with Confidence

Identify your achievements and skills
Align your authentic self with people’s perception
Know your strengths, weaknesses, talents and biases
Why language matters: talking about yourself and challenging negative messages

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:15

Techniques and Pathways to Senior Roles

Recognise opportunities for upward growth
Effective networking: practical tips to gain power and influence
Employ a collaborative approach to negotiating: the win-win approach
Generate senior leadership buy-in and influence at a business strategy level

14:15 - 15:15

Workshop: The Strategic Power of Saying No

In this workshop, delegates will apply strategies to say no, and practice them in challenging situations. This will enable them to:

Stay true to your core values
Understand why, when and how to say no
Learn the differences between barriers and boundaries

15:15 - 15:30

Afternoon Break

15:30 - 16:00

Action-Planning: Be the Leader You Envisioned

Define which core competencies you need to develop further and how
Determine your current impact and the one you want to have as a leader
Identify potential obstacles and how you can overcome them to the best of your abilities
Establish alignment between your personal purpose and the purpose of your organisation

16:00 - 16:15