Building Your Support System

Overview/Description
 "Building Your Support System" will teach women that few can succeed in business without a support system. The course explains how mentoring relationships and networking can help women reach their professional goals. Women will learn how businesses are developing and evolving today. The course also focuses on the importance of having a healthy balance between work and home.

Target Audience
 Female executives, midlevel managers, supervisors, team leaders

Expected Duration
3.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

The Benefits of Mentoring Relationships

  • recognize the benefits of good mentoring relationships in building a career.
  • identify roles a mentor can play in a protege's career.
  • apply the steps to choose appropriate mentors in business scenarios.
  • choose behaviors that will help build strong relationships with mentors.

    • The Importance of Networking

  • recognize the importance of networking in moving a career forward.
  • identify people who are crucial to a professional network.
  • use appropriate networking strategies in business scenarios.
  • analyze whether employees asked effective networking questions to learn the corporate culture in business scenarios.

    • Developments in Business

  • recognize how recent developments in business benefit women.
  • identify changes in business today that benefit women.
  • identify reasons women may have advantages over men in the changing business world.
  • identify strategies that take advantage of gender diversity in business.
  • employ strategies in business scenarios to take advantage of the positive effects of gender diversity.

    • Finding Balance Between Work and Home

  • recognize the importance of finding a balance between work life and home life
  • select strategies that will help a professional make the right choices about her life and career.
  • apply strategies in business scenarios to make the best choices about life and career.
  • analyze a scenario to determine how successful a female leader has been in keeping work life and home life separate.
  • identify appropriate strategies for handling crises through the use of a support system.

    • Course Number: LEAD0132