Women’s Employability and Business Skills

Women’s Employability and Business Skills

Duration: minimum 3 days full time

Overview

Many people hold stereotypical views about women’s role in society and in the workplace and it’s time to start challenging and changing those views.  Women have arrived in the workplace, but it is a workplace still dominated by men and it’s often hard to know the best route forward when there are few role models to look to.  Women need to work together and learn from each other in order to continue to push back barriers and realise their full potential.

In a competitive marketplace we need to ensure that women have the key commercial skills required by an employer and that they are able to communicate those skills when applying for a role or seeking a promotion.

Benefits of the course:

By attending this course participants will gain a higher level of personal awareness and will more clearly understand what makes them “tick” and what they can do to bring out the best in themselves and others.  They will develop a clear understanding of commerciality in the workplace and how they can add value to any organisation by problem solving and improving current processes and procedures.  Participants will also become more adept at prioritising their time and delivering professional business presentations.

Who is it for?

This course is specifically designed for women seeking to improve their opportunities within the workplace.  Particularly:

  • Women entering the workplace for the first time.
  • Graduates seeking to improve their personal & commercial awareness
  • Women seeking promotion
  • Women aiming to develop their roles and ensure that their voice is heard in the workplace.
  •  All women looking to achieve their personal goals and ambitions.

Course Content:

Day 1

  • The evolving role of women in the workplace
  • Surviving and flourishing in a male dominated society
  • Responding positively to the reactions of others
  • What can the female workforce achieve in the next 10 years and what’s our role in that?
  • What drives our ambitions and influences what we can, or can’t, achieve?
  • Improved self awareness; an introduction to MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicators)

Day 2

  • Commercial thinking; using Continuous Improvement tools to add value in the workplace
  • Utilising problem solving techniques to generate solutions and drive projects
  • Working within high performing teams
  • Building a professional network

Day 3

  • Prioritisation techniques
  • Building a personal development plan
  • Professional presentation skills

Upon completion of the course participants will be expected to:

  • Understand the value of their contribution to the workplace
  • Identify their own strengths & weaknesses and put together a personal development plan
  • Deliver a professional business presentation
  • Use problems solving techniques to make a commercial impact in their roles

Sessions will have a strong active participation component with facilitators keen to ensure that the experience will be fun and enjoyable as well as educational. The facilitator has wide experience of delivering this and related courses to clients both in the UK and internationally in the USA and the Middle East region.