Women in Leadership Diploma

This professional online program is for you if you want to learn how to foster and develop women as leaders.

With the Women in Leadership Diploma program, you will learn how women are changing the workforce. Through this course, you will gain a new perspective on the workforce, and what benefits can come from hiring and promoting women to higher positions.

Globally, women make up half of the workforce. Unfortunately for women, their male colleagues are promoted at a much higher rate. Women offer great work ethnics, and bring something different from men to the workforce, but many times it goes unnoticed.

Students will learn about how organisations can develop women leaders and the benefits of women in organisations, as well as advancements for the future of women. You will learn how women in the workplace can benefit not only the women themselves, but also the organisations in general.

The course fee covers registration, learning materials (PDF/eBooks) and assessment. Certification is subject to a single payment of £15 for soft-copy and £20 for printed version payable to the UK Home College.

Throughout the last century, women from all walks of life have transformed their roles both in and out of the workplace. The strides made in the last 100 years have amounted to formidable successes and boundless opportunities. Without a doubt, women will make more progress using their full potential in the next 50 years than they have in the last 500.

While women have redefined their roles and have secured unprecedented leadership opportunities, the overpowering focus remains to be that of establishing a balanced life. The harmony between values and growing ambition is the central focus of the Leadership for Women program. Through the ten phases, you will learn how to break through the restraints of negative conditioning in the workplace and realise your potential for leadership.

The Women in Leadership Diploma program is designed to help you overcome past conditioning, redefine your self-restrictions and enrich your self-concept as a leader.

This program positions women who are in leadership positions to recognise when there is a gender dimension at work and how they can outstrategize gender bias and their own habits to achieve better results.

All leaders, regardless of gender, face conflict and resistance and have to work with with people who think, act and communicate differently from themselves. In this course, you will be shown how to recognise when there's gender bias at play and when there isn't and how to address any issues that arise.

Many women say they would rather go to the dentist than to negotiate for themselves. Why? Women are taught early to create equity in relationships. When you negotiate with someone and you feel that you're taking something away from them, that feels like a violation of the social contract you were raised with. There's little wonder, then, that negotiation feels deeply uncomfortable for many women.

And yet negotiating is a critical skill that everyone, especially women, has to practice and master in order to be an effective leader. In this course, you will learn key behaviours that help negotiations, including asking for what you want—something most women are not taught to do. The course emphasises the gender dimension of negotiation strategies and the critical skills that women leaders, in particular, typically need to focus on. This course will be most helpful for women leaders who are not already practiced and comfortable in negotiation settings, but those who find negotiating stressful, uncomfortable, and difficult. Negotiating is a routine part of daily life and leadership, and approaching it with confidence and skill continually signals that you know your worth.

Research shows that emotional intelligence is a critical predictor of performance and a very strong driver of leadership and personal excellence. Those with high emotional intelligence can typically read a room quickly, clue into subterfuge and more easily show respect and empathy. While soft skills such as those may not sound impressive, they can be imperative for a woman in a leadership role. You can be a top performer without any emotional intelligence, but the numbers are against you.

In this course women leaders can develop their emotional intelligence and learn how to use it to their advantage to manage their team to greater success.

Research also shows that feedback is critical for leaders and that creating a culture of feedback is key to a team’s success. The more successful a team is, the better an organisation’s bottom line. However, there is an art to giving and receiving feedback and if not done properly, feedback can have a negative impact to morale. Conversely, teams who receive feedback in a positive, supportive way will strive to continue to do well.

There can be a gender dimension to giving and receiving feedback that is critical for women in leadership roles to understand, as men and women react differently. This course, will examine the gender dimensions of giving and receiving feedback and will explore strategies for working as effectively as possible to lead a high-performing team.

To maintain energy and positive focus, it’s critical for women in leadership roles to maintain a healthy and productive balance between their professional and personal lives. This course, examines the typical work-life balance conflicts that interfere with productivity and happiness. Students will also examine ways to create various checks to ensure they stay in balance, allowing them to move forward effectively, focusing energy on the tasks that will have the greatest positive impact.

Objectives:

• Navigate the “double bind” dilemma facing women in leadership; that is, women are both penalised for using leadership behaviours associated with masculinity and penalised as being weak if their behaviour is seen as too feminine
• Outmanoeuvre typical negotiation traps that women leaders fall into
• Develop emotional intelligence so that women can lead others with greater empathy, self-awareness, and social management
• Give feedback effectively, putting their team in a position to succeed
• Identify what an optimal work/life balance looks like and give women leaders the tools needed to craft this balance for themselves, allowing for both professional and personal success
• Discuss the leadership gap between men and women
• Learn about women in various powerful positions
• Discuss different traits associated with women in management
• Understand the different barriers facing women in leadership positions
• Learn about the benefits of having women in the workforce

Fast Facts:

1. Easy to follow and understand
2. You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time
3. Download printer friendly course content

Course Delivery

Courses are accessed online via our learning management system by any device including PC, MAC and laptop.

Individuals who are mid- to-senior level managers, regardless their gender or formal team to lead. This course is also meant for women who aspire to move into leadership roles regardless professional experience. It is applicable to a global audience from any country in the world.

No previous knowledge required.

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• Gender Affairs Officer
• Gender Advisor
• Gender Program Officer
• HR Advisor
• Business Consultant
• Team leader
• Senior Manager
• Supervisor and many more

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