Groundbreaking: The Paradigm Shift toward Women

Overview/Description
 This course describes ways women in leadership can help companies adjust if they are among the first women leaders in their organizations. Learners will look at why more companies are welcoming women into the ranks of leaders and how women can use their skills to reach top jobs. The course also explores ways to make the company more accepting of women in leadership and how such leaders can benefit a company.

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

Expected Duration
2.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Growing Opportunities for Women to Lead

  • recognize the value of the paradigm shift toward more women leading in business.
  • identify the global changes in business that have offered women more leadership opportunities.
  • identify examples of the cultural changes in corporations that provide more leadership opportunities for women.

    • Breaking through the Glass Ceiling

  • recognize the importance of succeeding in reaching a leadership position as a woman.
  • identify the appropriate steps to take in creating an advancement plan to help her move forward in her career.
  • identify the techniques for successfully exhibiting self-confidence as a leader.
  • apply the steps necessary for successfully exhibiting self-confidence as a leader in a role play.
  • sequence the steps in the shared-vision process.
  • apply the shared-vision process in a given business scenario.

    • Making Use of Diversity

  • recognize advantages of having diverse leaders and staff members.
  • identify examples of targeting formerly underrepresented groups for products and services in the new marketing paradigm.
  • predict whether a female business leader will be successful in convincing her company to make the marketing paradigm shift to include underrepresented groups.
  • assess whether a female leader in a given business scenario is successful as a diversity advocate in her organization, based on all the strategies necessary for being a diversity advocate.
  • match specific qualities of leadership with examples of ways a woman can use these qualities outside the professional setting.

    • Course Number: LEAD0134