Women in Leadership

A Professional Training Course On:

Women in Leadership

Build the confidence, communication, and influence to lead with clarity and purpose in senior roles.

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Course Schedule

About Women in Leadership

This course helps women strengthen their leadership presence, voice, and influence in the workplace. It's built for capable women who are already delivering results but want more structured support to step confidently into senior roles and overcome challenges like bias, visibility, and self-doubt.

You'll start by exploring the changing role of women at work and learning from successful leadership examples, then move into self-managing leadership, including building self-awareness and emotional intelligence. From there, the course covers essential communication skills for confident, assertive interaction, leading teams through change and conflict, and finishing with creative decision-making tools for problem-solving and innovation.

By the end, you'll leave with a practical leadership toolbox and a clear action plan to continue building your leadership journey.

Expected Outcomes

The course is structured around five stages — from understanding your leadership identity through to creative decision-making — so each skill builds toward greater confidence and influence. By the end, you'll be more confident in:

  • Expressing yourself clearly in meetings, presentations, and leadership conversations
  • Communicating assertively with senior leaders, peers, and team members
  • Identifying your leadership strengths and addressing key development areas
  • Leading and motivating teams with trust, direction, and shared purpose
  • Demonstrating emotional intelligence and self-management in challenging situations
  • Applying creative thinking to enhance performance and leadership effectiveness
  • Managing responsibilities, relationships, and resources with balance
  • Influencing others positively while navigating complex workplace dynamics

 

Best For

  • Supervisors looking to strengthen team leadership skills
  • Team leaders aiming to improve communication and influence
  • Managers seeking to enhance leadership presence and decision-making ability
  • Community leaders who want to lead with clarity and impact
  • Women business owners developing strategic leadership capability
  • Experienced women leaders preparing for greater responsibility

Training Method

The course begins by exploring the changing role of women at work, including learning from successful role models and clarifying your own leadership purpose and vision. It then moves into self-managing leadership, covering self-image, empowering beliefs, and emotional intelligence.

From there, you'll build essential communication skills, including assertive communication, delegation, and influencing others, before focusing on leading teams through change, conflict, and multicultural dynamics. The course closes with a toolbox of creative decision-making techniques, including mind mapping and problem-solving approaches. Throughout, you'll work through structured exercises, case studies, role-plays, and self-awareness tools, so you leave with a practical toolbox and a clear action plan for your leadership journey.

 

Course Outline

Day 1:The Changing Role of Women at Work
  • Recognising your value and your leadership gifts as a woman leader 
  • Learning from role models of successful women at work
  • Examining leadership styles and their effectiveness
  • Understanding and clarifying purpose, vision and mission and values
  • Recognising and avoiding common mistakes new leaders make
  • Overcoming glass ceilings and creating a support network
Day 2:Self Managing Leadership
  • Managing your roles, responsibilities, relationships and resources
  • Building positive self-image and self-worth
  • Establishing empowering beliefs
  • Increasing Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence at work
  • Creating a balanced lifestyle to support your success
Day 3:Essential Communication Skills for Women at Work
  • Delivering a clear, confident public presentation
  • Practicing assertive communication in every situations
  • Adapting communication for gender differences
  • Giving directions, delegation and feedback
  • Influencing others to create positive change
  • Handling competition, jealousy and political manoeuvring
Day 4:Team Leadership in Times of Change
  • Creating a happy and productive team
  • Team leadership in a multi-cultural, multi-gender team
  • Develop team charters to help focus the team
  • Overcoming resistance to change
  • Managing conflict through win-win thinking
  • Leading productive, energised and creative meetings
Day 5:Tool Box for the Creative Leader
  • Logical and Intuitive Decision Making Tools
  • Mind Mapping for creativity, planning and problem solving
  • Encourage creativity and innovation in a team
  • Problem Solving and creativity techniques
  • Where to go next – continuing learning strategies

Our Collaboration

Anderson Copex Coventry

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Women in Leadership FAQs

You'll learn how to recognise your leadership strengths, overcome common challenges like self-doubt, and build the confidence to step into senior roles.

You'll learn assertive communication techniques, how to give clear feedback and direction, and how to influence others positively in complex workplace dynamics.

Yes. You'll learn how to manage conflict through win-win thinking, overcome resistance to change, and lead multicultural, multi-gender teams effectively.

You'll learn how to increase self-awareness, build empowering beliefs, and manage your roles, responsibilities, and energy with more balance.

  You'll leave with a practical leadership toolbox and a clear personal action plan to continue developing your leadership journey with confidence.  

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