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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP

Program Duration: 3 Days

In today's dynamic business environment and global competition, leadership skills are continually changing, and women contribute significantly to this evolutionary process. Successful women leaders find creative ways to lead and build teams and organizations. This program is about finding new and creative ways of motivating, persuading, leading, and transforming teams. It paves the way for women to develop and fully utilize reasoning, negotiation, and risk-assessing skills.

This three-day program has been designed for female professionals to enhance their leadership, team-building, motivation, negotiation, persuasion, and social networking skills. Participants will also learn about key leadership traits, behavior, and styles that are essential to becoming a transformational and high impact leader.

Key Topics

Foundation of transformational leadership in women
What makes a woman leader?
Leadership traits, styles, and personality types
Personality types assessment using MBTI
Why should anyone be led by you?
As a women leader, how can you lead and transform your department, team, and organization successfully
Mobilizing others through effective communication, coaching, team building, motivating others, and networking
Leading in a multicultural environment successfully
Vision, influence, and persuasion
Relationship between leadership and emotional intelligence
Developing an action plan for your personal development as a high impact and transformational leader in your organization and industry
Succession planning through the creation of a women leadership pipeline

Key Benefits and Expected Outcomes

After attending this program, participants will be able to:

Understand key ingredients of how to become a credible, transformational and global leader
Explore individual leadership styles and traits
Enhance leadership skills: motivating employees, communicating a vision, persuasion techniques, and managing change.
Gain and maintain a competitive advantage by leveraging the strengths of a female workforce
Achieve growth and profitability through sustained female leadership
Position yourself within the succession planning framework in order to contribute towards a sustainable leadership pipeline.
Identify an optimal work/life balance and give women leaders the tools needed to craft the balance for themselves, thereby allowing for professional and personal success.
Enhance decision-making, performance, innovation, and retention of female employees
Network with CEOs, CFOs, CXOs, leaders, executives, business owners, entrepreneurs, and faculty from the world’s top business schools and universities

Key Benefits to Your Organization

Enhance employee decision-making, leadership, performance, innovation, productivity, and employee retention, which will lead to competitive advantage, strategic growth, and improved quality and performance for organizations.
Research studies have shown that human capital is the hardest element to replicate or imitate. Therefore, organizations that invest in employee learning and development create a sustainable and long-term competitive advantage that enhances creativity, teamwork, efficiency, disruptive innovation, and growth.

PROGRAM FACULTY

Dr. Shamayela Hanif

Dr. Shamayela Hanif is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Fatima Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine and Dentistry. She is also a practicing Obstetrician and Gynecologist. She is a graduate of Fatima Jinnah Medical College and has been awarded 16 gold and two silver medals for her academic achievements. She was also awarded for being the best graduate.

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Dr. Taghreed Al-Saraj

Dr. Taghreed is a best-selling author, an international educational consultant, women leadership coach, and an international public speaker. Dr. Al-Saraj has extensive experience in researching including being a Post Doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley and Vice-Chair of Berkeley Post Doc Entrepreneurship Program, SHE has lived and worked in various settings around the world: Europe, North America, South Asia, and the Middle East. She has a vast experience with different educational systems around the world including USA, UK, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Japan. Her areas of expertise include research, teacher training, program analysis, problem-solving for different educational institutions around the world, and entrepreneurship. She is trilingual with strong communication skills and a multi-cultural team worker who is highly self-motivated.

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Target Audience for Program

Female CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CXOs, Presidents, Directors, and Vice Presidents
Female managers, senior managers, executives, and entrepreneurs with a minimum of five years of professional experience
Female functional heads, business unit leaders, and team leaders
Anyone who inspires to be a transformational women leader, believes in women empowerment and leadership, and wants to make the world a better place through women leadership

Teaching Methodology

Group discussions
Interactive Classroom Sessions
Real-life case studies from Harvard Business School
Role-play exercises
Video-conferencing with faculty from the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, RMIT (Australia), and others
Harvard Business School and/or INSEAD Business School Simulation