Women in Leadership
Woman's Career Advancement Program
Overview
The Gender Equity Act 2012 requires business (nonpublic sector employees with 100 or more staff) to demonstrate commitment to gender equity in their workplace. This program will facilitate demonstration of this commitment, assisting the removal of some of the barriers to the full and equal participation of women in the workforce.
This women’s leadership program is delivered over 6 months, through a combination of personal coaching and feedback, interactive activities, workplace project, and networking opportunities, to provide a rich experience with long lasting benefits for participants and their organizations or business. Vicki Carter, a Registered Organisational Psychologist, leads this program.
Who should attend:
Women from technical specialist and leadership roles come together to share their leadership experiences, and learn and grow as leaders. This program will give participants real insights into their personal strengths and leadership style, as well as some of the invisible barriers to advancement, to empower each participant to take action to optimise their leadership potential and chance of success. This program can be run in-house
Program Outcomes:
Through 360-degree feedback, powerful self-reflection, action learning sessions, and peer networking, participants will:
- Gain insight into their leadership style and performance against key leadership competencies
- Build support networks and sponsorship opportunity
- Participate in a workplace project on Gender Equity
- Develop skills and confidence to build leadership capability to help reach leadership potential
- Prepare a personal develop plan to facilitate learning transfer
Course Inclusions
- Participants complete an online 360-degree questionnaire before the program commences and will receive a one-on-one 360-feedback report debrief and development planning session (2 hours) with Psychologist.
- A Workplace assignment on a Gender Equity issue of choice will be undertaken as part of each person’s professional development
- 6 half-day group sessions (8:30am – 12:30pm) one session per month for 6 months. Lunch will be provided on conclusion of each session to provide networking opportunities.
- Guest speakers to inform and inspire.
Min and max numbers apply
For more information please Contact Vicki Carter This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Kim MacMillan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Register you interest for the 2021 program: to commence in July 2021
Location for face to face parts of program: Melbourne
Program Summary
Pre-program: 360 survey and debrief (individual scheduling follow program launch in July)
Workshop 1(Full day 9am - 4pm): Friday 13th August 2021(in person planned)
Workshop 2 (9am-12:30 virtual): Friday 17th September
Workshop 3 Workshop 2 (9am-12:30 virtual): Friday 15th October
Workshop 4 (9am-12:30 virtual): Friday 19th Wednesday
Workshop 5(Full day 9am - 4pm): Friday 3rd December 2021(in person planned)
Mentoring sessions and final coaching session to be scheduled individually.
Detailed Program Outline
Workshop 1 – Transforming your Leadership (9am-4pm)
Armed with 360 survey results, participants will gain insight into their own leadership style and As-Is performance against key leadership competencies. Unconscious bias, limiting self-beliefs, and individual communication style will be explored. Ideas and workplace learnings will be debated with likeminded professionals. Each person will undertake a workplace project which tackles a current business issue and will run for the entirety of the program. Strategic thinking, problem solving and individual effectiveness will be the focus of the workplace assignment, supported by personal mentoring sessions.
Workshop 2 – Influencing without Authority (9am - 12:30pm)
Learn how to influence without authority. Participants will explore concepts and strategies and work collaboratively on real-time challenges in this interactive workshop. The format offers collective expertise as well as opportunity for reflective practice.
Workshop 3 – Empowering Teams (9am - 12:30pm)
Discover the enablers of high functioning teams. Participants will learn how to lift the motivation and performance of those they lead through an empowering leadership approach. Effective feedback and a coaching framework to lift performance and engagement will be practiced.
Workshop 4 – Derailers (9am - 12.30pm)
This workshop explores the characteristics that can derail a person’s career. Because of high expectations placed on leaders, it is important to strive towards exceptional performance particularly through moments of uncertainty or stress. Participants will develop new ways to overcome challenges and bounce back from adversity. The impact of values on leadership and decision-making through discovery of Character Strengths will also be covered.
Workshop 5 – Interactive Presentations + Moving Forward (9am - 4pm)
The final workshop provides the opportunity for participants to present their Business Project to the group. Participants will produce a personal development plan, identify support networks, and tackle the challenge of navigating work/life balance, to continue to build leadership capability beyond the program. The final workshop includes a panel of leaders to prompt thought and discussion on diverse and possible career pathways.
The Program concludes with a one-on-one coaching session to support participants in effectively leveraging their program experience and put measures in place to realise their full potential.
Download the WomensCareerAdvancementProgram_FINAL.pdf brochure
Emotional Intelligence Program
Leadership Development Series - Emotional Intelligence
People management skills have a significant impact on an organisation's bottom line. There is growing evidence to suggest Emotionally intelligent leaders achieve superior workplace outcomes. The ability to identify, understand, use, and manage emotions, as the four strengths commonly referred to as 'Emotional Intelligence', vital to improving managerial capability and creating truly effective and sustainable organisations.
The good news is that, unlike IQ, emotional intelligence can be developed. Learn how to think intelligently with emotions - perceiving, expressing, understanding and managing emotions in a professional and effective manner – in this one day workshop style program, designed and facilitated by Organisational Psychologist, Vicki Carter.
This program is offered virtually or face-to-face.
1 day
Emotional Intelligence Program
9:00 am – 4:00pm
- The 5 domains of Emotional Intelligence– increase self-awareness on this topic with the assistance of an ‘Emotional & Social Competence’ (ESC) report, derived from a psychometric questionnaire completed prior to the program.
- Self-regulation- learn strategies to increase self-control and build resilience, to better deal with workplace stress and adversity.
- Self-Motivation– how to do the things you set out to do, whether these are personal goals or dealing with workplace challenges. The importance of harnessing the power within will be discussed and practiced.
- Empathy– how to recognise and understand other people’s emotions through empathy will be discussed and practiced, for improved working relationships with others.
- Building relationships - skills to increase personal power and impact in the workplace.
Participants are required to complete an on-line Emotional & Social Competence (ESC) questionnaire before the program commences and will receive a personal, confidential report during the program. This report gives participant’s feedback on key emotional and social competencies which will be discussed during the program.
Building Resilience
Building Resilience (Wellbeing series)
Learn proven techniques that will boost your ability to better manage your emotions and handle workplace stress.
In this half-day workshop, participants will increase their understanding of how emotions affect job performance and learn practical techniques to manage their emotions more effectively. Participants will learn strategies to increase self-control and build resilience, so they can better deal with workplace stress and adversity.
This program has been designed and is facilitated by Organisational Psychologist Vicki Carter.
Who should attend
Individuals who would like to learn how to better manage their emotions, ensure emotions do not impact on their behaviours, and learn how to build resilience.
What will be covered
- The core emotions and triggers
- The affect emotions can have on behaviour
- The connection between emotion and stress and how to improve positive response
- Mindfulness based experiential exercises will be demonstrated and practiced
For more information contact Vicki Carter on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Team Building
Team Building - MBTI
About the Program
Learn to identify and deal constructively with different personality types using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®). The Myers Briggs Type Indicator provides a spotlight to help people in organisations understand themselves and their behaviour, appreciate others so as to make constructive use of individual differences, and see that approaching problems in different ways can be healthy and productive for a team.
In this program, participants complete a MBTI® questionnaire, learn how to interpret the results, and then apply this knowledge by engaging with personality types that are similar and different to their own. Preferences are also analysed to discover and appropriately manage potential areas of strengths and weaknesses within the team. By recognising personality type, individuals within the team will be better equipped to approach communication and problems within the team in different yet healthy ways.
This program has been designed and is facilitated by Organisational Psychologist, Vicki Carter
Who should attend
This program will assist teams to build an understanding and appreciation of different styles within the team, facilitate self-awareness and reflection, to improve team communication and interaction.
What will be covered
- Explore individual preferences and differences in personality
- Reflect on the effect of personality style preference on communication and problem solving approach
- Identify ways to use differences constructively to build a more effective team
- Learn to appreciate others so as to make constructive use of individual differences
- A team analysis of collective strengths and weaknesses.
Pre-program requirements
Participants are required to complete an on-line MBTI questionnaire prior to the program. A MBTI profile report will be distributed to participants as part of the program.
For more informatiuon contact Vicki Carter on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Relationship Sales
Relationship Sales
This program is designed to improve the quality of ‘New Business’ won. The approach is built around Selling Service Value and the Building of Long Term Business Relationships with Key Customers and Influencers. The programme places emphasis on how to sell the full value of your range of products and services, and how to move the conversation away from price only.
Please Contact Robert Carter on 042 291 3203 if your business is interested in developing its Sales Skills.
Key areas of focus include:
- The Building of Business Relationships
- Selling in Depth and Customer Profiling
- Selling of a ‘Valued Proposition’ such as “Total Ownership
- Market Segmentation and Strategic Planning
- Key Account Planning
- Customer ‘Gap Analysis’, Cost Benefits Analysis and Development of
Expected Program Outcomes:
- Key Accounts measured against an agreed Relationship Criteria Matrix
- Key Accounts mapped against the ‘quality’ of ‘their business’ and their ‘future potential spend’
- Completed pre-call planning procedures using the ‘Sales Interview Plan’
- Communication techniques to commit ‘the decision maker’ to your ‘bankable savings or Total Ownership Cost (TOC)
