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L3 Learn, Live, Lead Series
As a corporate member of the Women’sVision Foundation, you are invited to choose career enhancing lunchtime programs presented at your workplace for your colleagues. Corporate members are allocated a certain number of L3 sessions based on their membership levels: $5000 memberships include four sessions, $2500 memberships include two sessions and $1000 memberships include one.
Specific programs within each of these topic areas are listed on the following pages. Please select from these programs and contact your Women’sVision Foundation liaison to schedule one or more L3 sessions. Each program lasts approximately 90 minutes. If your organization would like to schedule additional L3s beyond those included in your membership benefits, they can be purchased for $750/per session.
Any questions regarding L3 programming should be directed to your Corporate Liaison or email Women’s Vision at info@womensvision.org.
Women’sVision Foundation is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and development of professional women. We offer a multi-level curriculum of cutting-edge programs, resources, and events designed to build stronger women leaders and a more inclusive workplace in which women are full participants in decision-making, management, and leadership.
Specific programs within each topic are listed below:
Career Advancement
Career Management Strategies Managing Yourself Based on studies of career successes and failures, this session helps you understand how to take control of your career and reach your desired goals. Learn proven strategies to overcome the barriers to career success, while honoring your commitment to the values of life/work balance.
Networking for Those Who Hate Networking Managing Yourself This interactive session demonstrates how networking can and should be done naturally, to build and enhance relationships. Participants learn how to network effectively in business, social and casual situations.
Speak Powerfully – Before You Even Open Your Mouth: The Influence of Professional Dress Image Consulting You have 10 Seconds to Make a First Impression – What Does Your Appearance Say About You. Learn to manipulate those first impressions and send out messages that can help your career. Learn the four levels of professional and business casual dress, and what to wear at each level. Discover how to project a professional image while maintaining your personal style. Find out how to create powerful, positive nonverbal messages with clothing. Enhance personal confidence by being appropriately dressed for all occasions and situations
Your Near Perfect Performance: Talent, Skills and Knowledge 2009 Favorite! Is your performance nearly a ‘10’? Are you working ‘in the zone’? Do you know why or why not? Discover Your Strengths, and how to use them 'everyday'. This session creates the platform for knowing the differences between your talents, your skills and your knowledge and how to put them all to work for a near perfect performance. Selling for Non-Selling Professionals Selling Skills Focused Is it possible to sell without being "salesy"? The answer is yes and this session teaches you how. These days you have to be good at what you do and develop new client relationships. Those at the 'top' understand they have to manage their own career by focusing on their professional expertise as well as developing their own book of business. There is nothing more frustrating than being the best in your field and watching your competitor get the account. Proven Success Strategies Managing Yourself Discover the 8 strategies and 4 key skills necessary to advance your career. Taken from Women'sVision Foundation member research including its senior Wise Women, learn proven strategies for your own success. Using real life stories and data, this session will provide you with tools ranging from “tooting your own horn” to building career allies. Stand Apart From the Competition & Leverage Your Personal Brand New! Each of us has a personal brand developed intentionally or by accident. A Personal Brand is defined by the perception others have about you and the value they assign you. Often the way we are perceived the value we THINK we bring to the situation are not in sync. In this session, learn how to maximize your value, your life experiences and your values to create and manage your 'Brand Impression'. Effective reputation management attracts opportunities for success.
Communication
Dealing with Conflict 2009 Favorite! Are you a person who avoids conflict or jumps in ready to fight? Can you imagine just having a nice quiet conversation and staying calm? What would be different every day if the word conflict didn’t exist? Learn how to engage, stay calm and speak from your heart. It’s really not about YOU! Keys to Powerful Communication 2009 Favorite! Have you ever wondered how to use communication clues to improve your powers of persuasion? How does your communication style affect others? This session provides you with a set of tools for improving your communication abilities. Called Social Styles - learn to identify key patterns, effective approaches and insights into four basic communication styles. You will learn much about yourself and how to adjust your style and messages to others.
Social Networking: Gaining Credibility with Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter New! Social Networking sites have exploded in popularity and have the potential to pay off big for your professional career. Learn how to use big 3 social networking websites to create an online presence that will help you in your professional career. As well as - Why you should be using social networking as a marketing tool. How to create professional profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter. Tips and Techniques for using all 3 sites for the most benefit. Best Practices and Etiquette for Posting, Connecting and Tweeting. AND...Top 10 things NOT to do in social networking.
Difficult Conversations 2009 Favorite! In this session, explore what makes some conversations difficult, why we avoid them, why we often handle them badly; and help identify some skills needed to achieve effective communication. As difficult conversations are key to career and personal success, learn how to be more effective in handling difficult but necessary conversations and making your relationships stronger.
Stand Apart From the Competition & Leverage Your Personal Brand New! Each of us has a personal brand developed intentionally or by accident. A Personal Brand is defined by the perception others have about you and the value they assign you. Often the way we are perceived the value we THINK we bring to the situation are not in sync. In this session, learn how to maximize your value, your life experiences and your values to create and manage your 'Brand Impression'. Effective reputation management attracts opportunities for success.
Leadership
Beyond Gender: Leveraging Difference at Work Team Building In this light-hearted session, better understand differences in male / female perspectives and approaches and how they show up at work. You will consider the strengths—and pitfalls--of both masculine and feminine approaches and learn how to benefit from appreciating and using both approaches. Beyond Win/Win: The Third Side 2009 Favorite! So often in negotiations we are encouraged to get to a win/win solution, which implies compromise on both sides. The Third Side is a conflict resolution strategy developed by Dr William Ury (Getting to Yes, Getting Past No) through his work as an international peace negotiator. Using The Third side paradigm we can more often reach a resolution that is greater than the sum of the parts. Learn how to negotiate a 1+1=3 solution. Emotional Intelligence: A Different Way of Being Smart New! Learn the key components of Emotional Intelligence and learn why some say it is 80% of what makes people effective and successful in life. Learn about getting out of you own way. Learn about crucial relationships and how to manage them. Learn how to bring this key skill to your organization. Getting Clear With Yourself and Others 2009 Favorite! No matter where you are on that corporate ladder, you will not be successful unless you know who YOU are. Have you identified your top 10 values? If not, how can you be clear with yourself or others? Learn how to get clear with yourself, which in turn creates an authentic relationship with others. How different would each day be, knowing what’s truly important to you and being able to communicate it? Innovation & Creativity: Everyone has the Capacity! New! In this session, learn the difference between innovation and creativity. Surprisingly we all can be more creative. Creativity is a skill, and can be learned. You will learn what are tools and methods for adding thought fluency to your work and challenges.
What Do You Know About Influence and Power New! The ability to change the hearts, minds and behavior of others is a skill everyone is business needs to develop. Learn about the makeup of these two critical skills and begin the journey to understanding and using these effective tools.
Solving the Generations Puzzle: Working in Multi-Generational Teams 2009 Favorite! This workshop will help you move from grumbling about the values and work habits of both younger and older generations to understanding, appreciating and using the differences among the generations in today’s workplace. Learn why the generations are different and get tips on managing multi-generational teams. Standing in Our True Power / Real Power 2009 Favorite! Personal fulfillment does not come from titles, positions, families, achievements or salary. It is already here, within us. In this session, learn about the difference between power and force, the dynamic levels of authenticity, and ways to measure the real truth of what we tell ourselves. Using research, intuitive leadership and kinesiology, this interactive session brings us to a different sense of the source of our true power.
Leading Effectively in a Global World As the world becomes more connected, large and small companies are changing their organizational structure to leverage global teams and partners. Participants will learn the most important skills for successful global leadership, resources to help them develop the skills, and career strategies that support global interests
Principles of Training & Coaching for Managers
New Managers
When you signed on for that Manager job in a leadership role, you also gained the titles of teacher, trainer and coach. That means understanding how people learn, uncovering the self-limiting beliefs that sabotage their performance and making sure your team can apply new knowledge to the job.
Doing More with Less: A Manager’s Crisis or Opportunity.
Improving Manager Skills
Many of us are being asked to do more with less. How can you manage yourself and your team so to be at ease and productive in the workplace? Sound impossible in today’s economic environment? In this session you will learn to - Use your business judgment to set priorities and create a manageable work load; Mentor your staff in critical thinking methodologies; Understand how destructive emotions can inhibit an entire group’s performance; Be a role model and build your own support system.
Strategies for Mastering Challenges
Social Networking: Gaining Credibility with Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter New! Social networking sites have exploded in popularity and have the potential to pay off big for your professional career. Using “the big three” social networking site, learn how to create an online presence that will help you in your professional career. How to use these sites as a marketing tool for your business. How to create professional profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Tips and techniques for using these sites for the most benefit. Best practices and etiquette for posting, connecting and Tweeting! Top things NOT to do in social networking
Difficult Conversations 2009 Favorite! In this session, explore what makes some conversations difficult, why we avoid them, why we often handle them badly; and help identify some skills needed to achieve effective communication. As difficult conversations are key to career and personal success, learn how to be more effective in handling difficult but necessary conversations and making your relationships stronger.
Power Moves: Playing with a Full Deck Team Building New work assignments, different leadership styles, organizational changes, and demographic shifts affect our own actual or perceived power. Recognizing different power stages – yours and others – gives you insight into power dynamics and politics and allows you to choose strategies appropriate to the situation. In this workshop, you will identify your own power stage and set a goal for enhancing your power. The Market Has Changed…Has Your Sales Process? Sales Process Focused It takes more than a strong person to ride out the storm of a tough market, but how do you keep your head in the game and stay mentally tough? You will discover the most important element of long lasting behavioral change and a process of breaking through your comfort zone once and for all to stay mentally tough no matter what's happening in the marketplace.
Managing Stress. Take a Moment for Yourself Managing Yourself This session reviews the biology of stress, how it impacts our bodies & ability to make decision. and present to employees methods to interrupt the stress cycle. Session attendees will learn how to interrupt the stress cycle and come away come knowing how to take better care of themselves and manage pressure both on the job and at home. Learn how any work environment can create pressure and learn what to do to counter negative energy and challenging work situations.
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